What have you done on your bike today?

Gimlet said:
Power figures are relative. It depends what kind of bike they're paired with. Coming from 100 bhp you'd have no problems at all with the Rocket. It's a very easy bike to ride. Totally controllable, even the weight. You need to be more positive with counter-steer in slow tight turns but otherwise it flicks around like a bike half it's size. And it feels utterly planted and rock-solid stable, even on loose surfaces believe it or not. Like most Triumphs the suspension is pretty stiff though.
Both an X and V4 Diavel will out accelerate it through the gears because they rev higher, spin up faster and have less weight. But they won't have it 0-60 (2.7 secs) or in top gear roll-ons. What the Rocket gives you like no other bike is a gargantuan sense of shove with just a sniff of throttle. But it's not in any way scary, just immensely pleasing.
250 bhp and 180 odd lbs if torque would be a bit more serious but wouldn't be any more brutal than a 180 bhp supernaked or sports bike. And less flighty and it won't rear up on to the back wheel. If you pin the throttle in the first three gears it won't spit you off the back, it'll just smoke a £300 rear tyre. But so will a Diavel or a big inch Harley with less power.
And a turbo will only give you what you ask for. Don't crack the throttle and you don't get the boost.
Get yourself a Rocket and go and paint some black lines.
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Not my cup of tea but I`ve not tried one so perhaps I should.
That said over the years I`ve ridden singles, twins, triples, il4s, a v4 and an IL6, the last 2 both Hondas. The only bikes that make me want to own and keep them have been from Ducati and Moto Guzzi . That`s nothing to do with power, performance, handling etc but more a visceral connection that grabbed me in 1983 when I first rode a Ducati and it hasn`t let go.
 
The skitz said:
Your even using Bidens script writer for your posts now 👀😆
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Dukesox said:
Not my cup of tea but I`ve not tried one so perhaps I should.
That said over the years I`ve ridden singles, twins, triples, il4s, a v4 and an IL6, the last 2 both Hondas. The only bikes that make me want to own and keep them have been from Ducati and Moto Guzzi . That`s nothing to do with power, performance, handling etc but more a visceral connection that grabbed me in 1983 when I first rode a Ducati and it hasn`t let go.
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I love singles, V-twins and triples as well (I'm less keen on I/L fours but I do love the crossplane Yamaha engine). I've got Vs in Ducati and KTM flavour, I'd really like a KTM 690 SMC just for farking about on, but it would be pure indulgence; and if I were to buy another supernaked (which is more likely), of the current crop I'd have a 1200 Speed Triple RS.

I've never really been able to manage with just one bike. I like touring, pottering, scratching, larking about or just enjoying the scenery. The closest to the perfect all-rounder I've ever owned that will do all that is the KTM 1190 Adv because it just does everything well (it's also the only bike I've ever owned which I've left completely stock, which I think says a lot). But it's like only ever eating the same food day in day out. It may be nutritionally complete but you'd crave a change of flavour from time to time.
The Rocket is a different category. It was bought as a replacement for my Harley Low Rider S, which I bought not because I started growing hair in my ears and decided it was time to become a Harleyist, but because I like having a cruiser. Not for what they can do but for how they make you feel. Sitting in supreme comfort on a huge bike that makes a lovely noise and has a lazy power delivery that feels like you've got a freight train pushing you in the back, at the right time, in the right place is just a glorious thing. Unfortunately the Harley wasn't supremely comfortable because the riding position was too extreme, hence the Rocket. Same vibe, much better comfort.

The thing is though, the Rocket is a cruiser that crosses categories. It's got the lazy shove of the Harley but a lot more of it, and it's got the comfort - but it's also agile and it's properly fast. I could almost, almost... have it as an only bike.
But I won't..
 
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Gimlet said:
I love singles, V-twins and triples as well (I'm less keen on I/L fours but I do love the crossplane Yamaha engine). I've got Vs in Ducati and KTM flavour, I'd really like a KTM 690 SMC just for farking about on, but it would be pure indulgence; and if I were to buy another supernaked (which is more likely), of the current crop I'd have a 1200 Speed Triple RS.

I've never really been able to manage with just one bike. I like touring, pottering, scratching, larking about or just enjoying the scenery. The closest to the perfect all-rounder I've ever owned that will do all that is the KTM 1190 Adv because it just does everything well (it's also the only bike I've ever owned which I've left completely stock, which I think says a lot). But it's like only ever eating the same food day in day out. It may be nutritionally complete but you'd crave a change of flavour from time to time.
The Rocket is a different category. It was bought as a replacement for my Harley Low Rider S, which I bought not because I started growing hair in my ears and decided it was time to become a Harleyist, but because I like having a cruiser. Not for what they can do but for how they make you feel. Sitting in supreme comfort on a huge bike that makes a lovely noise and has a lazy power delivery that feels like you've got a freight train pushing you in the back, at the right time, in the right place is just a glorious thing. Unfortunately the Harley wasn't supremely comfortable because the riding position was too extreme, hence the Rocket. Same vibe, much better comfort.

The thing is though, the Rocket is a cruiser that crosses categories. It's got the lazy shove of the Harley but a lot more of it, and it's got the comfort - but it's also agile and it's properly fast. I could almost, almost... have it as an only bike.
But I won't..
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I don't think there are many of us on here that have just 1 bike so i guess most of us agree 1 just isn't enough.
 
The sun came out at 11.00am (as forecast) so I took the the CCM Maverick for a spin. It's great fun to ride with endless torque at legal speeds, confidence inspiring in the corners and sounds great.
It needed a good wash when I got back which is something I have little patience with. It's well and truly broken in now and in pride of place in the stable.
 
Hugo Magnus said:
The sun came out at 11.00am (as forecast) so I took the the CCM Maverick for a spin. It's great fun to ride with endless torque at legal speeds, confidence inspiring in the corners and sounds great.
It needed a good wash when I got back which is something I have little patience with. It's well and truly broken in now and in pride of place in the stable.
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I still haven't cleaned the 996, it's still covered in insects and the usual road crap. Not much in the way of enthusiasm at the moment. :rolleyes:
At least the suns out at last, cheers the mood up!!🤷‍♂️
 
The sun was out here too, and it was a balmy 9 degrees, so took advantage of the dry roads to go for a spin.

The edge of Europe - next stop, over the horizon, is Trumpistan.
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Took the road less travelled on the way back, I forgot how less travelled it actually is, this is about the best section, just after this it disappears down a 45% slope 😕,
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Noobie said:
You need a cheap enduro just to pootle about on
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Absolutely👍. That road yesterday was 40 mins of standing on the pegs 1st gear stuff, realistically the Multi is too big & heavy a beast for that, it’s more suited to cross continent high speed stuff in comfort. A bit like the difference between a Bentley Continental GT and a Land Rover Defender Series 1.
 
Yayyyy 👌👌👌 another bike lives.

I fitted the R1s carbs back on today, and with a little help from the NoCo jump pack and a squirt of EasyStart it eventually coughed and ran and then continued running - first time in about 5-6 years 👍.

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Now just got to pull the brake calipers apart and service them, the front ones at least are seized, fit a new chain & sprocket set and 2 new tyres, spend a whole day cleaning and polishing it to remove 5 years of barn dust, crap and straw, and it can go back to its owner 👍
 
Noobie said:
Is there a lake where Irish people get thier bikes from wcp :unsure:
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Yes, it does look that way. This one came to me a good deal of time ago now and I have to admit I’ve been putting it on the long finger, but have now got around to working on it to get it finished.

The initial telephone call was ‘can you fit a set of carbs to my bike please? I took them off and sent them away to be cleaned, now they need refitting’. Easy peasy right? Wrong. When the bike arrived it was clear it had just been dragged out of the back of a damp shed or barn somewhere. It was covered in straw, dust, cobwebs and white furry corrosion. The chain Is almost seized and the front brakes are definitely seized on, it’s a gargantuan effort to push it around. Not only that but the rear tyre is flat and when I went to remove the valve dust cap to inflate it the entire valve just came away my hand - new valves were ordered. The tyres are dated 2001 and 2004 😮. He said he’d last ridden it pre-Covid, yeah several years pre Covid. He also recited a list of other things he wanted done to it 😕.

I did make a start, thought I’d better check over the carbs, was sceptical they’d been serviced/cleaned as they were minging on the outside. It pretty quickly became obvious they hadn’t been apart 😕 he was ripped off to the tune of €250. I had to order a load of bits for the carbs, had to wait for them and as other work came in it got put in one side but never forgotten.

It’s the last of my ‘just say NO jobs’ once this one’s done and out of the way I will take no more dogs like this and the Honda (‘ha, we’ll see’, says a voice in the background🤣).

TBH I’m glad it did start up the other day as I’d never heard it running, it did spin over so I knew it wasn’t seized and there is compression there, but the carbs just pissed out fuel when I first put them on the bike - before servicing them - and it wouldn’t start. There could have been other problems (could still be) hence it was stuffed in a shed and forgotten about.

It does sound very nice though with its straight through exhaust system - exup valve has been removed.
 
After work I took the Triumph for a 12 mile ride ti warm it through

I was wondering about the battery as it hadn’t been run since it was serviced on 06 Nov and the Supersport battery being flat, but it fired up fine.
 
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