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Daytona Loner
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PostPosted: 23:49 - 14 Aug 2018    Post subject: Triumph TT600 Reply with quote

After a 10 yer break from biking, I'm getting delivery of a mint 16,000 miles, 2000 TT600, I cant wait. Anyone here owned one?

I know early ones run poorly under 4000 revs without a remap, but apart from that. how do they stack up long term against the Jap 600's? My previous Bikes were all Honda, NSR125, CBR400RR, Hornet 600, CBR600F, CBR600RR

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bacon
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PostPosted: 07:35 - 15 Aug 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

At least you are breaking away from boring Honda's Wink supposed to be a good machine, enjoy Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 12:10 - 15 Aug 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had one until it ran out of electricity and dumped me at the side of the M25. It spent more time off the road being fixed than I spent riding it and it was incredibly gutless and lazy at lower revs.

First big bike though so I loved it Razz
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PostPosted: 15:12 - 15 Aug 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had two. I even had my pic in a recent copy of Practical Sportsbikes where I commented on the bike.

"I had two, one damaged repairable that later dropped a valve, and one very cheap very low mileage late model in blue. The blue one was ace, and I rode it all over. I went touring in Scotland on it, and while in Aberdeen I found the plastic quick release fuel connectors on the bottom of the tank had cracked. I got the bike recovered to a Triumph dealer up there and it turns out there was a recall for the plastic connectors to be replaced with anodised aluminium. After that, I never had any issues with the bike. Fuelling wasn't perfect but it was probably one of the best handling bikes I'd ridden up until that point, it was supremely comfortable and just too easy to go fast on.
Fuelling wise, I had the later model with the updated cams and you could tell it wasn't a carbed bike, but it never caused me any issues."

Really you can ride around the fuelling issues, but it's not as good as a modern fuel injected 600. As a bike to get back into biking it's pretty damn good. I found it so comfortable and a little too easy to go fast on, which is one of the reason I sold it to buy my first Buell.
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PostPosted: 16:13 - 15 Aug 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Would've thought the OP would have done his research on the bike before lining one up, but hey-ho.
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PostPosted: 17:36 - 15 Aug 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

chickenstrip wrote:
Would've thought the OP would have done his research on the bike before lining one up, but hey-ho.


Its called being spontaneous, no idea what motivates one to make such a negative comment, but hey-ho
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PostPosted: 18:03 - 15 Aug 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not sure how you took that to be negative Confused
Seems like common sense to me, but whatever. Hope you enjoy it anyway Smile

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PostPosted: 09:39 - 17 Aug 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had a Speed 4, pretty much the same bike but tuned slightly differently lower down the rev range.
Handled very well, comfy, quick enough for me. And sounded quite nice even with the standard exhaust.
Bad points... They tend to suffer with electrical problems. I had to have the stator rebuilt and replace the regulator rectifier. Seems to be a common problem with them for some reason.
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Daytona Loner
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PostPosted: 14:30 - 17 Aug 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

neatbik wrote:
I had a Speed 4, pretty much the same bike but tuned slightly differently lower down the rev range.
Handled very well, comfy, quick enough for me. And sounded quite nice even with the standard exhaust.
Bad points... They tend to suffer with electrical problems. I had to have the stator rebuilt and replace the regulator rectifier. Seems to be a common problem with them for some reason.


Yeah my riding experience is pretty much the same as yours, bar the rough running below 4000 revs, its very confidence inspiring and easy to ride despite my return after 10 years away from biking.

My state of the art £11 multi meter from screwfix indicates no charging issues, I was told that the reg/rec and stator tend to fail more when the bikes used for prolonged periods when everything gets hot, I met another owner at Demon Tweeks who's done 42,000 on his Daytona 600 with no electrical issues.

I'm just gonna ride it till the wheels fall off
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