Tag: triumph
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Triumph Thunderbird Maintenance Stand
This is such a simple game changer I thought I’d write it up for any other ‘bird owners still struggling with bike lifts and the like. The Thunderbird is a big girl – about 340kg in comparison with, say, a Bonneville of 230kg. There’s no centre stand, probably because you’d need power assist to get…
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New screen
Wanting to put a screen on Morrigan, my Triumph Thunderbird Storm, I found almost nothing available online and very few pictures of potential options. Now that I’ve solved my immediate problem (and fitted a screen) I thought I’d blog it a bit, so that the next biker who went down this route would find something…
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Calculating reserve…
Just filled Pumpkin for the second time. Three good English gallons goes 150 miles; you do the math. According to the book, the tank therefore has a three-quarter gallon reserve, so I’d best not see the yellow light with any more then 40 miles to the next petrol station…
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Midlife Crisis [tick]
So many jokes about the midlife crisis; about hitting the half century. And I laughed and thought nothing of it. And then, like puberty or an unexpected menopause, it hit. lol So, I went to the wife and said “what do you think – bike or another woman?” And surprisingly… she said bike! Which was a…