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Daytona Loner |
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Daytona Loner Derestricted Danger
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Posted: 23:49 - 14 Aug 2018 Post subject: Triumph TT600 |
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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 World Chat Champion
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Posted: 07:35 - 15 Aug 2018 Post subject: |
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At least you are breaking away from boring Honda's supposed to be a good machine, enjoy |
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waffles World Chat Champion
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Posted: 12:10 - 15 Aug 2018 Post subject: |
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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 ____________________ Theory test - 19/8/09, CBT - 11/10/09, MOD 1 - 16/8/10, MOD 2 - 27/10/10
Past rides Yamaha XT125X, Triumph TT600, Honda XR250
Current rides Suzuki GSXR 600, Honda MSX125 |
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MarJay But it's British!
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Posted: 15:12 - 15 Aug 2018 Post subject: |
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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. ____________________ British beauty: Triumph Street Triple R; Loony stroker: KR1S; Track fun: GSXR750 L1; Commuter Missile: GSX-S1000F
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Posted: 16:13 - 15 Aug 2018 Post subject: |
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Would've thought the OP would have done his research on the bike before lining one up, but hey-ho. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Posted: 18:03 - 15 Aug 2018 Post subject: |
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Not sure how you took that to be negative
Seems like common sense to me, but whatever. Hope you enjoy it anyway
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 5 years, 253 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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