Triumphrat

DobroDog · 01-03-2008

Anyone know of a good source for salvage parts for the Tiger? The black plastic piece under the faring on the left side is cracked.

Thanks

Kiwi Tiger · 01-04-2008

Im not sure about parts in your part of the world.... have you considered getting wealded up by a plastic wealder.

DobroDog · 01-04-2008

There is an idea I had not thought of...Did not know you could weld plastic. The part is not under much stress so if someone could fuse the crack is should hold up.

Thanks Kiwi Tiger

jbrick28 · 01-04-2008

theres actually a two part epoxy that they use to fuse body panels with like on saturns and i have seen people use it on bed sides instead of spot welding. you can get it at any paint store and sometimes at part stores like autozone and napa

DobroDog · 01-04-2008

A DYI option...Hmmmm

Food for thought

Thanks jbrick28

TucsonBill · 01-04-2008

Harbor Freight has a plastic welder that friends of mine have used successfully. Tiger parts are hard to come by, I know because I rebuilt my Tiger from a wreck I got on eBay. Baxter Cycle in Iowa is a good source of odds and ends, well worth an email. http://www.baxtercycle.com/

DobroDog · 01-05-2008

Bill

Thanks for the tip on Baxter Cycle.

Restoring a wrecked bike sounds interesting, any advice for someone thinking of trying what you did?

TucsonBill · 01-05-2008

Insurance companies are too quick to write off bikes as "totalled" when the damage is often all cosmetic. The crazy cost of plastic parts - as DobroDog has found out - makes throwing them away cheaper than repairing. I got a perfectly good mechanical Tiger for $1700 with 23K miles on the clock. Sure, I took a chance, but it's turned out to be 30K of fantastic riding so far! I found most of the parts I needed for repair on eBay and through word-of-mouth, and some stuff I fabbed or modified from other bikes. The aluminum shift lever, for example, was too worn to clamp tightly, so I cut down a Honda steel lever to be perfect for my foot length. It won't break, but it might bend. Since the wreck came with Thunderbike crash bars, that's not a problem. From the time I bought it until we did our first roadtrip it was about six weeks. Very little money, very little time, lots and lots of grins! One drawback in some folks' minds is that you end up with a salvage title. I have no problem with that, it only means that selling it could be a problem. I plan to keep Maggie forever, so that's a moot point. Now what I want is a wrecked 1999 Trophy 1200.......

DobroDog · 01-05-2008

Bill

Maggie's tale reads like a labor of love. Good luck finding your Trophy; have you picked out a name for him/her yet?

TucsonBill · 01-05-2008

It only recently became Maggie. I bought a Zumo 550 GPS that can do almost everything, and one of the options is British English for the voice prompts. When the Tiger began to tell me where to go in a gentle English female voice, she became Maggie right then!