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INTERMITTENT STARTING PROBLEM
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Michael Bryce W
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You are going up the wrong road by replacing components. This is your fix.
https://www.other forum/air-cooled-twins-technical-talk/209534-strange-starting-issue.html
https://www.other forum/air-cooled-twins-technical-talk/209534-strange-starting-issue.html
Michael Bryce W
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Start on page 38. Go forward from there.
Michael Bryce W
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I figured this would be a good time to learn how to post a picture. This is my buddy and I going for a ride the first day I got my bike. 2013 Bonneville (base) Bought it two years old with 168 miles on it. $5,700.00.
Beautiful bikes! What windshield and engine bars are you running? I have the Dart flyscreen, the small windshield, on my Street Twin. I was thinking about a bigger one to keep from getting beaten up a higher speeds.
Michael Bryce W
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Thank you for the good words.
When it comes to windscreens National Cycle anything is my product of choice. This one is the Plexifairing 3. I ride a five hundred mile day over the summer like nothing.
This bike does an iron butt ride like nothing. The Plexifairing GT is also an excellent choice. The bike sits at 85 mph all day long...18 wheelers...windy days... passing...no dramatics. I have a spoiler on top of it. I think it is the X-screen touring. Once you get it adjusted it really earns it's keep. Please be mindful that windscreens are to be looked over...not looked through.
Crash bars and bags and pegs...SW Motech anything. The bars bolt on in six places. They are functional. They are hands down better than any other guard on the market. Only downside to me is that they are not chrome. There is a company that makes chrome ones. They are junk.
The pegs are a nice reach. No buzz through the pegs for a thousand miles at a crack. The SW Motech blaze bags have the best fastening set up ever. They are no longer produced, but a guy on another forum is selling a set with all the mounting hardware.
The racepack tailbag for one up riding is also top notch. Triumph does not make a padded sissybar with tailrack and I really like the medium height padded bar...so the tailbag goes on the pillion.
Again thank you for the compliments. I have been riding for a few years and have had a few bikes. Motorcycles are like dogs...they do better when you have more than one. If a guy could only have one bike from the time he starts riding until he stops.it would be the Bonneville.
When it comes to windscreens National Cycle anything is my product of choice. This one is the Plexifairing 3. I ride a five hundred mile day over the summer like nothing.
This bike does an iron butt ride like nothing. The Plexifairing GT is also an excellent choice. The bike sits at 85 mph all day long...18 wheelers...windy days... passing...no dramatics. I have a spoiler on top of it. I think it is the X-screen touring. Once you get it adjusted it really earns it's keep. Please be mindful that windscreens are to be looked over...not looked through.
Crash bars and bags and pegs...SW Motech anything. The bars bolt on in six places. They are functional. They are hands down better than any other guard on the market. Only downside to me is that they are not chrome. There is a company that makes chrome ones. They are junk.
The pegs are a nice reach. No buzz through the pegs for a thousand miles at a crack. The SW Motech blaze bags have the best fastening set up ever. They are no longer produced, but a guy on another forum is selling a set with all the mounting hardware.
The racepack tailbag for one up riding is also top notch. Triumph does not make a padded sissybar with tailrack and I really like the medium height padded bar...so the tailbag goes on the pillion.
Again thank you for the compliments. I have been riding for a few years and have had a few bikes. Motorcycles are like dogs...they do better when you have more than one. If a guy could only have one bike from the time he starts riding until he stops.it would be the Bonneville.
Hi, Michael: Is that one in the photo a Plexi 3 or the GT? I've got a GT on my 12 T100 because National said it, basically, wouldn't fit the Triumph Bonneville. Very happy with the GT, by the way. I wonder if National has changed their mind, so to speak, about the 3?
Anyway, just wondering, that's all: Jim
Anyway, just wondering, that's all: Jim
Michael Bryce W
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Everything from National Cycle is universal. Universal means one part fits none. I have put the 3 on three bikes since 1990. GS 450L, CB 750L, and my 2013 Bonneville. There is very little difference between the 3 and the GT. A little extra coverage so I go with it. It bolts on with no issues...just adjustment as you would expect with a universal application. There is no appreciable difference in the two. I live in a cold place. Think nine months of winter and three months of bad skiing. I buy the biggest screen I can make fit...and make it fit. I am sure I fabbed something or.modified or reversed brackets to make it work. It was about three years ago. I don't remember. You did not get short changed. The GT is fine.
Thanks for getting back so quick, Michael: I do have the 3 on another bike and the coverage is a wee bit better, but I didn't want to go through the hassle of getting a 3 and having to send it back so I went with the GT, to be safe. As I said, I'm very happy with it...……..just wish that I could have found someone who had mounted a 3, back then. At least I know that if I ever need to replace the GT, I can do it with a 3.
Have a Happy New Year: Jim
Michael Bryce W
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Glad to help...did you ever fix your intermittent start problem? That is what brought me to this site. The problem was angering and embarrassing. Yes the bike would start again in a few seconds, but your bike started worse than all the others.
Not really, Mike, but it seems to have gotten better over time; I've learned to live with it. I will say that a new battery this year seemed to lessen the incidents, though. I just won't use the bike as a "getaway vehicle" should I decide to do nefarious deeds.
Jim
Michael Bryce W
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Okay, but the fix is a matter of a few cents in parts, the post lays it out even if you were to pay a dealer a few dollars. It made a big difference for me in the likeability of the bike.
You call.
Michael Bryce W
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I got a screamer of a deal on my bike and I am positive the starting issue was why. The bike only had 168 miles on it in 3 seasons. I am positive the starting issue is why. I could chrome it to death, work the front and rear suspension to death, accessorize it to death...and when you meet a riding buddy at his house and go to leave and the bike telegraphs an electrical problem that goes beyond a battery, easy fix component, or loose wire, it makes you want to kick the bike over, but you laugh it off as Triumph electrical...old school...the reason they drink warm beer in England is they have Lucas refridgerators. Not funny to me and pissed me off...bigly. The same feeling when you get done gassing up on a new bike that everyone knows you have money into and it starts like the worst bike at the pumps.
The bike got passed to me after the original owner bought it, made himself live with it for a few years and sold it for a loss...the bike was just not for him...and will never buy a Triumph again. It is deadly bad business to take a problem this menacing and call it a characteristic, not a problem. I was going to let it sit for another two seasons and dump it while being honest to the next buyer..for a loss where a guy can live with it knowing that his bike is low mileage, still relatively new, cost very little and just has an annoying characteristic. This fix allowed me to get the bike I had to have in the color I had to have and enjoyable and comfortably say that if I did not have other bikes, I still would not want another bike.
The bike got passed to me after the original owner bought it, made himself live with it for a few years and sold it for a loss...the bike was just not for him...and will never buy a Triumph again. It is deadly bad business to take a problem this menacing and call it a characteristic, not a problem. I was going to let it sit for another two seasons and dump it while being honest to the next buyer..for a loss where a guy can live with it knowing that his bike is low mileage, still relatively new, cost very little and just has an annoying characteristic. This fix allowed me to get the bike I had to have in the color I had to have and enjoyable and comfortably say that if I did not have other bikes, I still would not want another bike.
Michael,
Those were excellent reviews from someone who'd been there. done that! I've been very unhappy with my Street Twin because Triumph says there's no way to put road pegs on it. I just find that very hard to believe, but haven't had the time to investigate it further. I really would like to get that resolved.
The bigger/better windscreen will probably be on the list, too. Thanks for the good writeup!
Michael Bryce W
Member
My memory may be a bit dull. I may have modded or fabbed a bit for the Plexifairing 3, but the GT is bolt on all day with deminimis difference. The three is what I go with and it always works. I know next to nothing about the Street Twin. If it will allow for the SW Motech guard and pegs you will be very happy.
Apparently, judging by the photo, the road pegs are attached to the engine guard. Therefore, Sarah would need the guard and the pegs (i.e., the package) to get the pegs for her Street Twin.
Michael Bryce W
Member
Pegs and mounts are an easy add on. Once she has a guard she is home free. The pictures of the street Twin look just like my base Bonneville (2013). I would call Twisted Throttle. If they tell you the guard bolts on then you can get your choice of pegs. They fasten on with U brackets.
There is no "package."
There are hundreds of different pegs out there. They go on with U brackets for any 7/8 tubing. Again...this is not like building a rocket. If twisted throttle says the guard bolts up...end.of drama. Find your choice of hundreds of pegs held on by U bolt and stretch your legs in the spring. I hope the SW Motech bar just bolts on. Again...there are a few bars and guards that bolt up to the Bonneville. The six point set up is the best. The other stuff is for show...ask any guy who dropped the bike over.
Do not make yourself nuts looking for a "package."
Twisted Throttle, 855-255-5550
