Another new boy....

[robxxxx]

Morning all.

Just noticed that I have been lurking for about a year and a half. Is this a new record? Where do I claim my prize?
Thought I better say hello after this long. Bought a 55 plate Girly in feb 2010 to replace a Honda Firestorm. Wanted something to tour on two up, the wife's arse couldn't deal with the storm's pillion for more than an hour and I would have gone deaf after three hours with the ART race cans it had.
So Tiger took over the duty of big touring bike, here's a pic of us on the first day of our trip to France, Spain and Italy.......



a good start.

[Rocinante]

I have seen that look before in similar situations. :roll:

How did the rest of the trip go?

[robxxxx]

It got sorted the next day. In the photo the RAC man is phoning yet another Triumph dealer on the hunt for parts, was a small backstreet dealer that solved the problem. Reg/Rec had died.
Rest of the trip was great.

[chairhead]

Reg/Rec had died.
Rest of the trip was great.

Welcome to the site mate,the reg/rec thing,...yeah been there done that,
as have a lot of us,on the up side i dont think you'll find a site with better support so you're in the right place :) ,where in the country are you?

[Chris Canning]

As someone who hardly ever rides a bike one up,the look on your wifes face :D been there done that :oops:  oh the joys of biking  :roll:

Welcome to the best technical site by some margin,

[Nick Calne]

As someone who hardly ever rides a bike one up,the look on your wifes face :D

That's the look my wife gives me all the time!  Welcome to the site.

[Chris Canning]

Photo looks like the chunnel car park,did the RAC man have fun getting in or just tell e'm he was going to France  :D

[robxxxx]

Photo looks like the chunnel car park,did the RAC man have fun getting in or just tell e'm he was going to France  :D

Chris,I don't know how you spotted that from the lack of backround detail. But you should be working for MI5!! Yes it is. And we had ridden through to the last checkpoint/passport thing, wife had forgotten to get the documents out the top box so I stopped just before. Went to start it two minutes later and dead! Had to push it back to that car park and wait for RAC. And I have to give him a shed load of thanks for what he did. Was a biker himself, so managed to find a bike shop willing to look at it that day. Oh, and he did a good line of cheap booze and fags   :D

[Chris Canning]

Our Tiger went belly up just past the Honda dealer on the A2 just outside Dover a few years ago,one of the females fuel connectors sheared off and there was no fix for us,well sort of,RAC stumped up a rental car,drove 200 miles back home,packed our gear onto another bike and back down to Dover the following morning to meet our friend who'd stayed in Calais and then onto Berne in Switzerland 775miles on 3 hours sleep and 500 odd the previous day   ,hence the look on your wifes face is very apt  :roll: ,I'll show my other half the photo  :D