Hello all! I've been looking at these forums for the past several months. I was looking into buying a bike and wanted to at least do some research before I just bought 'any old bike'. Well the time came, and I invested in a 2000 Triumph TT600! Love the bike, fits me very well. I just wanted to make myself known and say Hello! I've read a significant amount of posts and it seems that everyone has had really good times with the TT600. In the past month i've been riding this bike, i've been ecstatic! It's so much fun! So hello all, hope to get to know you very well!

And now...

Parts! Aye, here comes the questions. Of course, buying a used bike, it has some issues. As for the cosmetic issues, the back end fairings are a little... welll crunched. The bike has been dropped on the left side, so the handlebar has a slight bend (nothing that affects riding). AND! On the left side, the sliders have been broken off. My bike has them on both the front and rear. Anyone know a good brand? I like the ones on the right side, they extend about... i'd say 4 inches from the frame, a good distance. I have two local dealers (live in Portland, OR), but their prices are rather high. Same as www.bikebandit.com actually. Curious if any of you have the parts, or know a good place to get them. I'm trying to get the bike back to stock configuration (except the sliders and the exaust). I'll post pictures later, when i'm not at work. Thanks alot all!

well judging from the pic at the bottom of the post, you bought the right color 00TT.

Sky King is the company that makes the sliders that most everyone has. You can also get LSL's but I don't know anything about those. There is another brand that escapes me right now.

EBAY.

Other people on this forum have loads of parts, so check the classifieds and ask, you never know what you'll find. I have set of stock clip ons for the TT. I don't think they're bent at all, but I switched to Vortex when I had to put a Daytona top clamp on mine.

Josh

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OK all, here are the parts i'm looking for.

RH Side Panel, Color: Aluminum (1)
LH Side Panel, Color: Aluminum (2)
Rear End Cap, Color: Aluminum (6)

Diagram

LH Footrest Hanger, Passenger (11)

Diagram

LH Handlebar (1)
Handlebar Cap (13)

Diagram

Those are all the parts that i'm looking at to improve the bike. I'm fine without them, just like the aesthetic value they add. Let me know if you're willing to sell any parts you have!

Also, does anyone have a suggestion for a rear sprocket? I bought an aftermarket one, but wanted to see what you guys are running.

Thanks for all the help!

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Rear sprocket and gearing can get complicated...

Oh, you've gotta be kidding me! I have a whole section of bookmarks to useful topics and they don't work with the new forums!!!! Grrr..

Well anyways, you have a 525 chain stock. Unless a previous owner modified it, stock gearing is 14/42, a 3:1 ratio. Later on, Triumph switched to 15/45, the same ratio, but the larger from sprocket alleviated issues some (but not all) people had with premature wear on the rub strip on the swingarm.

If you just want to change the rear sprocket make sure you get a 525, and something like a 45t would treat you pretty well. If you're swapping out the whole works, 15/47 is a popular combo for street, and 15/49 for track. I'm running a 15/47 520 setup, and it made a huge difference in the way the bike rides - it's always in the power band and feels much quicker in most situations. That said, grinding out highway miles even less fun than it was stock.

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Thanks again rustbucket.

I'm using the bike for mainly transportation and joyrides on the weekend. No track stuff, at least not at the moment. I usually go for anywhere to 100 and 300 mile rides (joy and transport to visit family), so what would be the best sprocket combo for highway use? My ride to work is 85% interstate. Boo strait routes.

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Hell, if you've got that much highway, I'd go with a 15/40. (I'm kidding, it would be ridiculous at all low rpms.)

Mine came to me with a 14/45, I switched to a 15/48 when I got the 520 conversion. I don't have a lot of highway probs with that combo, it will still break 150 if you need to.

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Well, here are some numbers:

14/42 or 15/45: 3:1 - Stock
15/47: 3.13 - the most popular setup (what I'm running)
15/48: 3.2
14/43: 3.07
14/44: 3.14
14/45: 3.21

So, what I'm running is a 5% difference or so, and in terms of ridability, the difference is huge. If you're spending a lot of time on the highway, I wouldn't go higher than that. Highway is fine for me on the highway, except for a nagging feeling that I'm beating on the engine revving so high (which I'm pretty sure is just in my head).

If I were in your position, I'd change to a 15t front sprocket because they're cheap and it could delay a headache down the road replacing the rub strip. I'm really happy with 15/47. If you want to stay with the 14t front,, 14/44 looks like a nice ratio.

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Yeah, it's a good ratio if you like PI.

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Do you guys know of somewhere to buy a chain/sprocket set for the TT600 that has both steel front and rear sprockets?

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