I guess life took over.
My ms has been giving me grief over the last couple of months, up and down like a see-saw, hopefully it'll settle down onto the good side of things now.
I eventually got around to doing some maintenance on Angie this weekend. Lubing cables, oil brake fluid etc.. when I noticed a scratch mark on my rear rotor. Grabbed the torch and got comfortable on the floor when I noticed that the rear pads are just about non existant.
Not such a problem, however I wanted to ride the next day, so I scratched around in my parts bin and found some older ones that had some life left in them.
Started stripping the rear caliper only to find that the retaining pins were seized in the caliper. :angry:
Phoned Traditional Triumph and spoke to Duncan who told me it's pretty common and to hammer a torx bit into the heads and that should do the trick.
5 minutes later I phone him back with the good news and ask if he's got pads in stock. Of course they do. Nip through and pick 'em up.
Rebuilt the calipers, mounted them and bled the system. Sorted.
Out on a breakfast run the next day with DaveB and Marc, only to realise that I've blown a fork seal now. Sigh.
I took the forks out last night and dropped them into TT this morning. Hopefully they will get a gap this week (as their fully booked, popular shop), and get them sorted for me.
Both forks are weeping, however the compression fork is just about void of oil, even though it never dripped, must have been a slow leak due to wear and not damaged.
Still all in all I can't complain as Angie is coming up to 30k km's now.
If I can still remember how to, I got some pics I should upload.
cheerz till latrr.
...
My ms has been giving me grief over the last couple of months, up and down like a see-saw, hopefully it'll settle down onto the good side of things now.
I eventually got around to doing some maintenance on Angie this weekend. Lubing cables, oil brake fluid etc.. when I noticed a scratch mark on my rear rotor. Grabbed the torch and got comfortable on the floor when I noticed that the rear pads are just about non existant.
Not such a problem, however I wanted to ride the next day, so I scratched around in my parts bin and found some older ones that had some life left in them.
Started stripping the rear caliper only to find that the retaining pins were seized in the caliper. :angry:
Phoned Traditional Triumph and spoke to Duncan who told me it's pretty common and to hammer a torx bit into the heads and that should do the trick.
5 minutes later I phone him back with the good news and ask if he's got pads in stock. Of course they do. Nip through and pick 'em up.
Rebuilt the calipers, mounted them and bled the system. Sorted.
Out on a breakfast run the next day with DaveB and Marc, only to realise that I've blown a fork seal now. Sigh.
I took the forks out last night and dropped them into TT this morning. Hopefully they will get a gap this week (as their fully booked, popular shop), and get them sorted for me.
Both forks are weeping, however the compression fork is just about void of oil, even though it never dripped, must have been a slow leak due to wear and not damaged.
Still all in all I can't complain as Angie is coming up to 30k km's now.
If I can still remember how to, I got some pics I should upload.
cheerz till latrr.
...
