Hey Klavdy, do you know about the factory fitted hole in the Tiger airbox? The link will take you to the 'short' version of the story. There's much more on the Tiger 1050 forum but you gotta logon to view it.Yeah!
The bike shown is my son's. All 1050 series Triumphs have the hole :o
http://gtr1000.yuku.com/topic/5725/The-whole-painful-story-Butchered-Tiger-1050-warranty-work (http://gtr1000.yuku.com/topic/5725/The-whole-painful-story-Butchered-Tiger-1050-warranty-work)
Klavdy here, new owner of a GTR1400 (that's what we call them here) joined to learn and have some fun meeting new blokes.
Live on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
Bikes currently owned: GTR 1400, 2003 Aprilia Tuono,1050 Triumph Tiger, 1993 Yamaha FJ1200 that's been modded extensively.
I'll be listening and learning before I post too much.
Cheers.
Yeah!
I'm a member over on that board,read that a couple weeks or so ago , what a debacle.
That hole is getting blocked off asap (I've been a bit unwell lately and haven't been able to move my sorry ass around too much)
I haven't even ridden the GTR1400 yet, I need to heal up and get strong again.
Thanks fellers, I have lots of American mates, I even keep my Aprilia Tuono over there in Orange County,C.A for my U.S.A vacations.Where abouts are you in Australia? I'll be down next month.
I come over at least once a year (Airfares are ridiculously cheap) and go for a good long ride.
I'll be over the last two weeks of May and all June, we are going on a ride to Porterville C.A then up to Redding for the Hwy 36 run, then across to Colorado.
America is a truly beautiful country with the worlds best motorcycle roads.
Where abouts are you in Australia? I'll be down next month.
See his first post.DOH :)
America is a truly beautiful country with the worlds best motorcycle roads.
sorry mate, but you might want to check a map on that... >:(
anyway, welcome to the forum!
It is accepted practice that "America" refers to the USA and not all of North America or South America. For example, you would call a citizen of the USA an "American", not a "USA'ian" or "United States of American". No disrespect to the other countries in North/South America is meant or implied :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States)
"The United States of America (also called the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States)..."
I used to date a chick with legs like a kangaroo...she was AWESOME, till she got pissed off! :o
If by "accepted" you mean you accept it, then yes, it is accepted. I'm sure you know many people in that train of though. My experience is different, though.
Maxtog, I consider you a respectable forum member. IMO, your posts contribute and you seem to know how to keep your voice down and make it count when you raise it.
Is that a good thing? :oOhhhh what a pouch she had ;)
She didn't have a pouch too did she? Was her name Skippy?
Bugger that, I'm just going to call you Seppo's.:o :o :o
It's a term of endearment we Aussies like to bestow on our friends from the United States of America.
I've been sitting in the garage, on the GTR1400 making "Vrooom" noises and checking it out,daydreaming about the beaut adventures we'll be having and putting together a list of extras I'd like to add when I found even more goodness already on it.
It's not only got the Power Commander V and Muzzy exhaust , it's got a Radguard radiator protector as well.
Bugger that, I'm just going to call you Seppo's.
It's a term of endearment we Aussies like to bestow on our friends from the United States of America.
I've been sitting in the garage, on the GTR1400 making "Vrooom" noises and checking it out,
Eeeew, it looks like that is a huge insult!No, not at all,same as we call the whinging Pommies "Soap Dodgers" and they call us "Convict Scum".
OK, you have officially "lost it" now! Next you will start it and sit on it in the garage, honking the horn... :)
No, not at all,same as we call the whinging Pommies "Soap Dodgers" and they call us "Convict Scum".
Its all meant to be friendly, that's how Aussies are.
I love going to the U.S, I've been to heaps of places there, made a ton of friends and had some of the best rides ever,
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-EjM6C_6mpsM/T0dbxzOVHYI/AAAAAAAAGq4/yVLEmqxvS-I/s347/VisitedStatesMap.jpg)
Bugger that, I'm just going to call you Seppo's.
It's a term of endearment we Aussies like to bestow on our friends from the United States of America.
Blue Ridge Parkway,
Honking the horn? I've ordered a Stebel.
Blue Ridge Parkway being pulled over by a Virginia State Trooper???!!?!?! :)
You will love it (I love mine, and it has "saved" me at least once so far).
BRP would have been the Feds I would think. Looks like a ranger to me....not that I would know, of course.
Any way, the Federal Ranger dudes, wow, they did a screaming U-Turn and pulled me over, reckoned I was doing 75 mph in a 35 zone.
Complete nonsense, I reckon I was only doing 72.
So, they did not have a clue what to do with me, it was a big ticket, but they had never met an Aussie let alone had to deal with an International Drivers licence.
We talked for a bit, I broke the ice by giving them a toy koala and kangaroo each (for their kids) and they let me off after radioing H.Q with a written warning that I have kept in the garage here in Aus.
Mind you, they did follow me, roar ahead out of sight, chuck another U-Turn, come back past me giving me the hairy eyeball (I waved), chucked another U-Ey, roared past out of sight again, blah blah.
I pulled off at the next town exit, went got some vittles, cocked about for an hour.
Got back to the camp and my U.S mates reckon if it had of been them, they would have got a $1500 fine,gone to Jail and had their bikes impounded.
I dunno, do they do that or were my mates just winding me up?
Except in certain locations, like tourist areas, the speed limit is 45. The Skyline drive, which continues northward from the terminus of the BRP in VA, is 35 for the most part. And you have to pay to get on that road. It's way too slow for me. More rangers as well.
Well, I can tell you for a fact that in my home town, South Hill, their limits include part of I85. So you can have three jurisdictions (VA, Mecklenburg county, and South Hill) ticketing on the interstate at various times. I've seen all of them doing it.
The moral of this story is that if you speed anywhere in VA, or most states for that matter) and exceed the constabulary internal clip limits, you may be ticketed. We all run that risk when we exceed posted limits. If we get a ticket it's our fault, although there was that one time where it wasn't and I got a ticket anyway.......in the Prius.
No, it was speeding...and I wasn't.
Unfortunately that can happen. Usually due to the improper use of a radar gun where it picks up reflections or other vehicles, or if it was defective or went out of calibration.
Some things are the same the world over.
I just got pulled over (seriously like 20 minutes ago) and was given the benefit of the doubt due to "shadowing" of the radar. I was probably traveling 10 mph over the limit and pulled right over when I saw him hit his lights as he passed me traveling the other direction. He said I was going 81 and I told him that was bs and I was at most doing 5 mph over (small fib ;D ). He said that he didn't visually estimate my speed at anything as high as what his radar showed so he cut me loose. Good day for me, nothing over the speed limit for a while after a close call. ;)
I just got pulled over (seriously like 20 minutes ago) and was given the benefit of the doubt due to "shadowing" of the radar. I was probably traveling 10 mph over the limit and pulled right over when I saw him hit his lights as he passed me traveling the other direction. He said I was going 81 and I told him that was bs and I was at most doing 5 mph over (small fib ;D ). He said that he didn't visually estimate my speed at anything as high as what his radar showed so he cut me loose. Good day for me, nothing over the speed limit for a while after a close call. ;)
I find it incredibly difficult to maintain a set speed on the Concours (well, on any real motorcycle). The speedometer is not at the best viewing distance or angle for me, the graduation is such that just the smallest few ticks is 10MPH over/under, my eyes are not what they used to be, and the bike is powerful.