New Baby

[Silli]

I rode one of these at our Fouriesburg run last year, and again this year.

My Xmas present to myself this year..................

Hopefully taking delivery on Saturday. :happy:

 

[Dilligaf]

Enjoy :y115:

 

[Rocky]

Now that's what I call a baby :y115: :y115: :y18:
Congratulations on the new addition :ya2:

 

[devo]

thats one cool stocking filler
well done Silli :happy:

 

[otherwise]

Good move!
I'm on my second Street Triple now, my first was a std black, my new one is like your photo, an "R" in black with gold wheels. You don't go getting a second one if you don't love them.
:y18:

 

[Silli]

[quote author=otherwise link=topic=11260.msg54035#msg54035 date=1290627683]
Good move!
I'm on my second Street Triple now, my first was a std black, my new one is like your photo, an "R" in black with gold wheels. You don't go getting a second one if you don't love them.
:y18:
[/quote]

Mine is the same colour scheme.... gloss black/gold.

Do you still have the older one?

 

[otherwise]

No the older one was sold to get a Bonneville T100 (EFI black / white) supposedly for two up riding with my lovely wife. After a bit over a year she wasn't riding with me enough to warrant keeping the T100 so went back to another Street Triple, this time an "R". Now if she want's to go out for a short ride it's on my 1969TR6R. All in all it's a good arrangement. I can't say enough good things about Street Triples, they are just great all round bikes with one down side, they aren't very good for a pillion.

 

[dazco]

Nice ! Be careful....i hears them thar thangs is fast as the dickens !

 

[DaveM]

Congratulations Silli cool ride :y18:

 

[Merlin]

Cool ride enjoy :y18:

 

[DaveB]

Here's wishing you many thousands of fun kilometres on it- it's a fantastic bike.

Many congrats :y115:!

BTW, when do you get it?

Dave.

 

[Silli]

Thanks Dave and the rest of the guys. I am very chuffed.

Collect on Sat. morning.

 

[The Seeker]

VERY nice bike....CONGRATULATIONS!!

 

[CarlS]

Congratualtions, Silli; an excellent choice. If lived near to the twisties, I would have one. Trey has the Speed Triple and I like that bike! Enjoy and ride safe. Merry Christmas!

 

[Silli]

Took delivery of my little black beauty on Sat. morning. Delighted, except for one thing.

Running (breaking) in. AAAggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh. :sad:

100kph (62mph) is no fun anywhere, but especially the highway!

Need to get this out of the way asap.

Interested in others views re this.

The handbook says one thing.... the decal on the tank says another, and some people say don't bother.

I have followed the instructions on my previous two Triumphs, and will do so on this one too, I think.

 

[DaveM]

Well some say you need to do both a bit of hard riding and a bit of soft riding. I just follow what the book tell me as they should know best :y114:

 

[DaveB]

Thrash it mercilessly :ya2:.

Seriously, I reckon:

• 
  [li]It must never labour
  Running at constant rpm (e.g. on the freeway) is no good. Gentle acceleration followed by deceleration puts load cycles in to the engine and this aids the running in.
  The engine will let you know by its feel whether it's ready to rev (and then you slow down again)[/li]
  [li][/li]

Then you trek over to Boksburg and send it robot to robot :y115:!

 

[CarlS]

I am in between doing it by the book and the "wide open" method. I will run it faster for a brief period - run it up to about 80 mph and let off. I'll let it drop to about 50 and slowly go back to about 60 - 65. As the engine loosens up, I will run it faster for those brief spurts.

 

[T-RIDER]

Hi Silli, The first 400 km is a drag to do at 5000 rpm but you will feel how it loosens up and rev up
more freely. Do not force it, take your time to run it in. Short trips to the shopping centres help a lot.
The Street Triple is an amazing little machine and you can get addicted to it very easily. At 8000 to
9000 rpm it screams from the air box "give me,give me more". Run it in to the schedule and it will
give you lots of happy K's.
T-Rider :y115: :y114:

 

[dazco]

I just rode it pretty normally when i broke my Tbird in, IE: not real high RPM's, but also no babying at all. Spirited riding but no redline or close. Also no constant speeds. I just got the big bore kit installed and i have the old sleeves and pistons and they look like new with no carbon build up anywhere below TDC or past the rings. I think 95% of break in data we hear is a holdover for long gone days when engine tech was very very different. Today we have these nikasil sleeves that don't even wear and the rings probably break in pretty much as much as they're going to in the short term within a few miles. theres hardly anything to break in when the sleeve is mirror smooth and doesn't wear. The honing marks on mine after 12k looked brand spanking new as tho they were never used. My mechanic is the guy who does all the work on triumph's press fleet, all the bikes for magazine reviews and demo truck and all that. And he told me just ride it like you always do. Makes sense to me. After all, if there is no definitive answer or at least no one we can know is 100% right, then doing it that way is right in the middle of the two most discussed methods and therefore if it's wrong it can only be 50% as wrong as the other methods if they are off. the only thing i believe is not really subjective is you should not ride at any constant speed for long periods. If on the freeway vary your speed....up, down, up down, etc. Oh, and no wheelies till it's broken in. :y114: