Nuclear red Speed Triple 955i
After selling the XJR1300, we went to look at this Speed Triple which, according to Triumph, is red. Who am I to argue with them?!
The bike was cheap and is very tidy looking. It came with the Triumph carbon TOR exhaust and sounded lovely. It came with a Renthal rack, pillion seat and seat hump. The bike came from a bloke with 4 bikes in his garage. He bought the Triple after his son bought one and let him have a go! Seemed like a genuine bloke but said the Triple wasn't being used due to the other bikes in the garage. We collected the bike from Leicester and it rode perfectly until we got off the motorway close to home. It cut out a couple of times as we approached junctions and traffic lights and I pulled the clutch in. I thought of the IACV hoses that I had to replace on the Daytona and so wasn't too concerned.
After getting the bike home, I took it to pieces and found a number of problems :o/ It looked like someone had already been under the tank, trying to find the cause of the running problems and hadn't taken too much care putting it back together!
I found that the airbox hadn't been pushed into position properly so there was a good chance that air was leaking in, around where the airbox should have been sealed onto the throttle bodies. Fortunately though, the IACV hoses were intact but I decided to replace them for silicon anyway, while I had the hose and they were a known weak point.
After replacing the plugs, checking the air filter (a K&N panel filter which looked pretty much brand new) and putting it all back together again, the bike ran nicely and no longer cut out at junctions.
The bike was cheap and is very tidy looking. It came with the Triumph carbon TOR exhaust and sounded lovely. It came with a Renthal rack, pillion seat and seat hump. The bike came from a bloke with 4 bikes in his garage. He bought the Triple after his son bought one and let him have a go! Seemed like a genuine bloke but said the Triple wasn't being used due to the other bikes in the garage. We collected the bike from Leicester and it rode perfectly until we got off the motorway close to home. It cut out a couple of times as we approached junctions and traffic lights and I pulled the clutch in. I thought of the IACV hoses that I had to replace on the Daytona and so wasn't too concerned.
After getting the bike home, I took it to pieces and found a number of problems :o/ It looked like someone had already been under the tank, trying to find the cause of the running problems and hadn't taken too much care putting it back together!
I found that the airbox hadn't been pushed into position properly so there was a good chance that air was leaking in, around where the airbox should have been sealed onto the throttle bodies. Fortunately though, the IACV hoses were intact but I decided to replace them for silicon anyway, while I had the hose and they were a known weak point.
After replacing the plugs, checking the air filter (a K&N panel filter which looked pretty much brand new) and putting it all back together again, the bike ran nicely and no longer cut out at junctions.
posted by Mark at 11:37 am
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