Triumphrat

yakoo11 · 01-17-2010, 05:34 PM

does anyone know of a company for aftermarket case covers (TT600)?

like the woodcrafts?

Will · 01-18-2010, 03:10 AM

No, as far as I know, there is nothing out there. You might consider making one by making parts out of aluminum stock and then gluing them to your covers. It's all I can think of, since even the carbon ones which used to be available for gluing to your covers don't seem to be around much any more.

yimmit · 01-18-2010, 05:33 PM

do you mean these
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TRIUMPH-TT600-...item4839114e0c

yakoo11 · 01-18-2010, 09:37 PM

Unfortunately those wont pass tech inspect for racing

I have someone that will cnc me them out of stock and were even working on "borrowing" the woodcraft sliders :0

kubbie · 01-20-2010, 11:14 AM

just curious, why won't the stock parts pass tech? is it because they are too soft? too thin?

a friends cbr1000 ( 1994 vintage) had little plastic skid pucks mounted on the engine covers on both sides. something like that work?

epoxy/screw a hockey puck to the stator cover. that way it would slide on that before it would grind thru the metal. just a thought.

Will · 01-21-2010, 08:45 PM

If you fall off at speed, the stock covers will break like an egg shell, spreading oil all over the track. Oil on a hot track is a good way to collect about another dozen or so bikes when they hit the oil and go down. It's a mess. I saw it happen when a guy siliconed in his oil drain plug, spread oil all over a corner, and took six more riders and bikes with him when he went down. Safety rules are there for a good reason almost every time.

kubbie · 01-22-2010, 08:50 AM

I don't doubt the rules are there to help/protect everyone. Was just curious about the reason behind the rules. I kind of thought that was the reason why.

So the puck glued/screwed to the stator cover probable won't work, huh?

What else could you do?

Will · 01-22-2010, 12:18 PM

I have seen reinforced covers over the cover like the ebay link, but different racing clubs have different rules for these things. I never put those on my TT600, because I wasn't convinced they would work. Apparently, I'm not the only one who would be nervous about seeing those on the track in a racing setting.

BombFactory · 01-22-2010, 08:08 PM

Glue-on carbon fiber covers wouldn't do anything, as carbon fiber burns through with enough speed and weight, and they still won't help with the fact that the engine covers are very thin and weak cast aluminum.

I think a lot of it comes down to aesthetics. If I were serious about racing, and I wanted to protect the cases for their sake, my sake, and the sake of overall track safety, I would build my own cover protectors. Someone might try this, as I don't see why it wouldn't be legal:

Go to a metal supply business and get three or four feet of 1.5 inch x 0.125 inch mild, cold-rolled flat-bar/band iron. (a home improvement or hardware store may carry this size). Use a vise, or clamp the material to a sharp-edged workbench, and bend it to fit from one front bolt of the stator cover to an opposite rear bolt, following the convex shape of the cover while keeping the steel .12 inch or so off the cover. Since the lower half of the cover is usually what hits first, designing it to fit down lower would seem like the better design. The rear tire might be used as a mold to shape the dome. Looks about like this: _,**,_

Drill one appropriate-sized hole on each ear/tab, get two .125" longer machine screws at a hardware store. When the bar is completed, drill two 0.0625" holes on each side of the dome near the mounting ears/tabs. Then drill a safety wire hole through two oem stator cover machine screw heads. Bolt the protective bar to the stator cover using the two longer cover screws (not drilled for wire). Now replace the nearest oem cover screw on each side of the bar with the drilled oem screws, and run safety wire from the hole drilled in the bar to the screw head, leaving a little slack. This will be a safety in the event that the bar mounting screws should every strip or break, as it will help keep the bar from falling onto the track.

Mild cold rolled steel is plenty strong enough to stave off attacks, and the tight bends will make for a very strong piece. If you keep is barely off the cover, there will be no, or at least much less, danger of having the bar catch while sliding. It certainly won't be as much of a danger for that than the rearsets or clipons.

I suppose the same could be done for the clutch cover, but the outer cover (under the shift arm) is a fake to begin with, so it will protect the clutch cover well. However, the breather cover is easily ground down, so a similar protective bar at the round seal outline would protect it well.

It's all just a thought, but I'd certainly be looking into doing something like this if I were on the track a lot. It isn't pretty, but after the bars are painted black or silver to match the cases, only a tuned camera will be able to tell when the motorcycle is moving. In my opinion, the nicest looking race machines are usually the ones that get too much attention with beauty and not enough attention with practicality and pilot practice.