This time next year, expect a very different photograph.
1977 Triumph T140v
Just dropped it off this weekend for sandblasting, powder coating and chrome refresh.
New connecting rods, electronic ignition… Oh baby. I cant wait.
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Stop the press, I mean BIKE!
The V7’s front brake has plenty of power (based on the tire’s ultimate pavement friction) but an AWFUL lever pressure to get to it. I put on a larger front disc, 333 mm over the 320 mm, but the added caliper leverage was too low in torque advantage to get it done.The four pot Brembo is a good caliper so that stays. I changed to the EBC sintered pads but again the change was in the test instruments, not my right hand. So the disc and/or pads aren’t the solution.
The next step, that should have been the first, was the master cylinder. I installed a Brembo 15RCS system and WOW, did that fix things. I used the 20 setting not the 18, for an earlier maximum power based on lever pressure, and a whole lot less pressure. Two fingers to full anti-lock. True that the total power has to be the same as the tire is unchanged, but it is now accessible and easier to modulate to full braking power. This has to be the best mod I’ve ever done to a bike to be honest.
Galen
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So a trip this fall to Ouray Colorado and altitude riding from 7k to 12k feet required me to purchase a fuel injected bike. 2021 KTM 500 EXCf 6days is 18lbs lighter than my carbureted 2009 KTm 400 EXC. Holy cow has technology improved. Same bike model with 12 year vintage difference. I might try converting the 400 into a more street super moto type bike. Not even sure if that is doable.
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Tubes?
Yup. No tubes were pinched. I hate pinching tubes.
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what year is the triumph?
I had 2 1968 Bonneville’s
(the first took me to a horrific head-on collision day after purchase when oncoming driver suddenly turned left. based on EEG and EKG, I died several times, broke about everything, near leg and arm amputation, hundreds of stitches, several nails, wearing a helmet would have broken my neck as I went through front windshield and out driver’s window)
is that your motel?
Damn, that sounds like a catastrophic event.
Ive gone off my bike more times than I can count. Only once on the street, the rest were on track. My worst was just a few broken ribs and collarbone.
This Triumph you see here is my 2004 Thruxton with lots of little performance based mods… i.e. shocks, airbox removal, steering damper, brake pads and carb jets etc…
I also have a 1977 T140v that is undergoing restoration now.
Still have my last race bike too. 1999 SV650.
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Here is a just a word of actual usage, not guessing.
I have the V7 Moto Guzzi Model 10 with Michilin’s Road Classic tires. So what, right. Forget the bike then, but if you have a classic bike the tires are at 12,000 miles and going! They look to be good to 15,000 to the wear bars if I go that long. Crazy good for bias belted tires. At my 12,500 mile service I’ll go ahead and do new road classic front and rear as I’m there but…the pictures are at 12,000+ miles! Never had issues with traction, certainly not wear or cupping, all good. No rain groove tracking. Just plain old good tires for classic bikes.
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Astounding.
That also speaks about a rider who knows what he’s doing.
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