Street Triple mods. Pic heavy.

[lilredmachine]

Right, enough of this people-who-know-what-they-are-doing-refurbishing-old-bikes-to-better-than-new-condition malarky. It's time for someone who knows nothing about anything to throw money at a brand new bike until it's worth less . Well, not entirely nothing, I'm a mechanic... Who spanners on race bikes... Occasionally. But I won't be doing anything to extreme cos the bike hasn't had it's first service yet. Warranty and all that.

Bike is a black 2010 base model Street Triple on a '11 plate I bought after test riding a second hand 59 plate R that unfortunately sold before I could muster the readies. The R is a fantastic road bike, excellent radial brakes, adjustable suspension and that wonderful, tractable triple motor. The base bike is nearly as good, but the brakes are slightly less marvelous and the suspension as stock has too much compression damping, giving a shocking ride over the patchwork road we have on the Isle of Wight.

Seriously the roads are bullshit, which is why I've spent most of my biking life on motards, crossers, soft nakeds etc. The Striple is the first mostly on-road performance orientated bike I have owned. And I'm feeling it. Through the bars, through my spine. The issue is not spring rate or preload, but damping, every lump transfers shock to the frame. The R was better, the higher quality suspension, particularly the reservoired rear shock made a world of difference.

So a few mods are required. Bike came stock, I specced the Arrow 3-1 titanium system that does away with the cat but keeps the 02 sensor, ECU gets remapped at this point to balance out the fueling. Internet dyno results would indicate around a 5hp increase with this pipe and map, though further dynoing after the bike is run in will free up more. Weight drops 8 fuckin kgs over stock as well! R&G tail tidy gets rid of the gumpf around the back, No clearance issues bringing the plate in as the pipe is relocated to exiting beneath the R footpeg (touching down before it incidentally ) Bike also has the extra bodywork Triumph were hawking a while ago, so belly pan, rad cowls and flyscreen. So loads of extra bodywork... But no hugger.

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First thing was to make the bike stand out a bit. Obvously, small number plate, 8x6 to get rid of the sail bikes come with I joined the Street Triple forum and discovered a company called Carbon 4U working away in it's entrails, supplying mainly carbon fibre parts for Triumphs. I made up an order of lengthened hugger, seat cowl and kevlar reinforced engine covers. Whilst racing last year we had a similar set on Pete's R1 and it saved so many engine casings it was unbelievable. They turned up in short order.

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Fitting was a breeze, the parts were excellent, beautiful finish and fitment.

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So Onwards and upwards and all that. A second pack of carbon was ordered, being a bit more visible on the Striple forum got me talking with the owners of C4U and got me a discount, so I ordered a set of heel plates, a chain guard, a sprocket cover, a finishing kit to eliminate the holes in the tail unit and a lower shark fin chain guard. Again, quick delivery, and they arrived in perfect nick. Again, awesome quality and fitment was easy as pie despite the complex moulds involved, particularly with the sprocket cover. I had also ordered some Titex adjustable levers, always had adjustable levers on my bikes.

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And that's it for now...
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[lilredmachine]

But what is to come?

Well, from the first post you may well have gathered I may be doing some more indepth spannering on this bike. But before I do, I need A) Somewhere to work on it properly without being rained on/pissing off the neighbours and B) some parts to fit.

A is being solved, moving into my mate Pete's place end of May, loads of room, Pete's bike mad and a championship winning rider so bikes always in pieces everywhere. Rent also halves so plenty of disposable income to blow on pointless shiny bits.

B is on it's way. I've got a few parts already, mostly sniped off E-bay, some sent by other forum members, some bought outright when second hand just won't do.

Supersprox two piece lightweight sprocket + gold Xring chain. Stock gearing. Some guys shorted the ratio, but jesus, the thing has short enough gearing as it is.

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Nissin 4 pot radial calipers off a Daytona, freshly refurbed and ready to fit. Particularly pleased with these, £69 shipped for both off the 'bay

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Obligitory K&N filter

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R master cylinder from a nice chap in Greece off the Striple forums. 85 Eur shipped.

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A set of R specific levers (different master cylinder, different lever)

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R spec rear shock from a Daytona 675, cleaned up and ready to fit. Set to stock Daytona settings for now.

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And with a shocktube.

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Being made as we speak:

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Full carbon extended mudguard for all weather riding. (rubs thighs) Should be on by early may.

What I need to finish:

Set of either Street Triple R or Daytona forks to mount up the radial brakes. Harder than it sounds, hens teeth rare because of people doing this very upgrade. Usually around at the start of the racing season as people modify their race bike for the year.

Set of Street Triple R brake lines.

An R master cylinder mount bracket.

Free flow intake mod, mesh screen to replace standard restrictive inlet.

Dyno time to get the bike mapped properly with the pipe, K&N and inlet mods.
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[L4Isoside]

Nice .

Lovely bike .

[Welshd1k]

dare i ask where teh engine casings a from ?
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[lilredmachine]

[Mystery]

damn thats B E Autiful
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[Gazdaman]

Cot DAMN that carbon looks good.

I'd be investing in a big shed or one of those little metal bike garages or something. That thing's too beautiful to work on/keep outside!

Gaz

[lilredmachine]

Indeed, will have a garage at Pete's place. He's already starting to get it cleared out so we can work on my Viva in there.

Goes in for it's first service on Monday, will get a few of the parts fitted whilst they are at it.
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[lilredmachine]

Right busy day today. Bike has had it's first service. Dave Deaths were good enough to lend me a bike whilst they did the service and fitted a few bits. Cue a 450 mile old XT660X:

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It's a fun bike, but my last motard was a heavily modified DRZ-400E, and the Yam was fairly underwhelming in comparison. Lets just say that any rice pudding skins in the area could rest easy. Might have felt better about it if it had a nice set of unbaffled Akras

Anyway, they had the bike for a while, I did some miles on the motard then they rang and I went to pick it up. First impressions, the bike sits visibly higher at the back end than it did, more weight over the front and better stance. Chain and sprockets look banging, fairly difficult to envisage any performance increase but meh. I'm a tart. Shock looks very pleasing to the eye on the bike. Revving at a stand still reveals an even rortier induction noise with the K&N filter on there. Bit peeved my fat bars haven't arrived yet but whatever, should be in mid May hopefully, so still stockers on there at the moment.

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Riding difference? Transformed. Totally. The back end has calmed right down, shock is nowhere near as oversprung as I feared (stock Daytona spring is 11.5wt and Striple R spring is 9.5wt if I recall correctly) and the damping is so much better even on the stock settings. No out of the seat moments but I can still feel everything! well chuffed.

The bike feels stronger and seems to be pretty hell bent on revving to the point small children's ears bleed their brains out. Probably a mental effect of having an induction noise that must have fallen from bike heaven, as I doubt an air filter can make THAT much difference to outright power, but God is it good. Overtook a few cars on the way home, about 40mph, dropped a couple of cogs and blatted the throttle for a couple of seconds and I could swear the cars nearly ditched it was the sonic shock so great as I stormed past. Haha. Stupid fun. Got home and spent a couple of hours removing the chain grease pack that had distributed itself EVERYWHERE on my rather enthusiastic ride.
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[lilredmachine]

Well, the R&G tail bracket failed the other day. Ordered a full carbon one piece undertray to go on the bike and it's coming with the mudguard.

Can't recommend the R&G as justveryone I've seen has failed now.

There's a set of Maxton modified Daytona shocks on E-bay but they are scratched up bad. Shame cos they would have been perfect for the bike.
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[Pete247]

looks well loved and very bling, has this now cost you what you would have paid for an "R" with all the mods?

[lilredmachine]

[Tim..]

I thought the 675R spec rear shock is an ohlins?

Nice bike though
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[lilredmachine]

I refer to the shock as an R because it is off a Street Triple R. The 675R is indeed an Ohlins unit.
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[lilredmachine]

Shiny bits came today.

Extended C/F mudguard:

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one piece rear tail unit/undertray:

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Um, we've had a lot of snow shovels go missing out of storage, anyone know anything about it?

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[lilredmachine]

long time with little mods! Got the carbon parts fitted after moving to Pete's.

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I think she looks pretty damn good.

Bits in the post:

Ktech 20DDS Daytona forks (a small fortune!)
Wavy discs
Street Triple R Brake lines
Misc parts for Daytona front end conversion
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[LordShaftesbu...]

Liking the undertray, where did you get it?

What exactly is the Daytona front end conversion?

[lilredmachine]

The Daytona conversion is this (arrived today, £850 well spent second hand. Internals are £1710 from Ktech alone, without fitting or labour):

As above, I have sourced some 20DDS Ktech internaled 675 forks to go with the Daytona M/C and Daytona calipers. Got some Street R brake lines coming to hook everything up and a set (front + rear) of wavy discs with EBC sintered pads to get it stopped.

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These forks feel odd! Having one leg for compression and one leg for rebound makes them feel very strange off the bike lol!

It's essentially just fitting Daytona parts to upgrade a basic Street Triple instead of Street Triple R parts as they are far more plentiful. Not really vast amount of difference between a lot of the bits, mainly colour and length/spacing that can be adjusted. Taking 'performance' artistic licence with the mods though, when this is finished it will far surpass Daytona/Street R spec.

And a link to the undertray:

https://www.carbon4u.com/catalog/i98.html

It's pricey, but an immensely high quality piece. My fitment thread is here :

https://www.street-triple.co.uk/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=26&topic=11316.0

Should give you an idea of what is involved.
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[J4mes]

Beautiful

[LordShaftesbu...]

How about clipons?

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[lilredmachine]

They look real nice, I prefer the bike with them visually but they don't agree with my wrists and the Striple really lends itself to low speed hooliganism, which is better accomplished with wide bars

Will be getting a set of bar end mirrors for it though, in that picture the bike doesn't have mirrors so instantly looks more streamlined. I'd just take the mirrors off mine but I'll decide sooner or later whether I can be arsed to have my head bouncing about everywhere trying to see what's about to run over me.
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[LordShaftesbu...]

Yeah mine needed barend mirrors - there was nowhere else to attach them!

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[Alex_B]

Well, only one thing to say I guess.

Beafukinutiful!!!!

[lilredmachine]

Cheers Just for that, you get a video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itu9JQk5FgM
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[LordShaftesbu...]

Great video. The Street Triple has a very distinctive sound when you're up close, there's a higher-pitched whine as well as the exhaust note. Sounds a bit like a turbo or supercharger. Do you know what causes this whine?