Street Twins. Sara took one of the new Street Twins out for a test ride. Toward the end of the test ride, the bike suddenly stalled with smoke bellowing from the exhaust.
She was able to get it off the road, but the bike would not restart and she had to call Foothills to come pick her and the bike up.
I am not a mechanic, but from what I can gather from talking to David, this is what happened…..
Upon tear-down, Foothills found that one of the corners of the cylinder head had broken off. They suspect that maybe it was not torqued down properly at the factory, or for some other reason, had worked its way loose.
They believe the cylinder head was probably chattering and banging away at the flange bolt on that corner, until the corner broke off.
Apparently after that happened, the bike shot a ring through the gap. One of the lifters is also deeply scored.
He said that Triumph would normally collect that bike and return it to Mother England since it only had about 53 miles on it at the time, but apparently they are allowing it to be used as a learning experience for the mechanics to tear it down, rebuild it, and return it to demo service.
When Sara inquired about it, they jokingly told her that she must really like the singles, since she has a G650GS single, because she took the Street Twin out as a Twin and brought it back as a Street Single
= Sean
On Apr 10, 2016, at 6:33 AM, Steve Smith <shmitty74@gmail.com> wrote:Okay, I'll bite. What happened to make a Speed Twin into a Speed Single? (Hopefully without injury to anyone!)
On Saturday, April 9, 2016, Sara Salter <grrrlx1@gmail.com> wrote:Ask me, Sean or foothills how one of those street twins got made into a street single on a ride I took on a demo :-/Sara
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