During the transformation of my 675 I decided to have the wheels powder coated. And since I had all the wheel bearings out I decided to just replace them with new ones. After installing the bearing in the sprocket carrier I realized that I had lost the circlip. This sucked but not a real emergency since I could just pop onto bike bandit and find the part. Worst case scenario is I would be down a couple more weeks. Bike bandit shows the clip on the diagram but there is nowhere to add it to cart. I called the rep and found out that Triumph considers the part obsolete and it is unavailable. Almost in a panic, I jumped into the car and headed to the bike shop a couple of miles down the road and handed them the sprocket carrier. A couple of minutes later they handed me my sprocket carrier with a perfectly fit circlip.
My beautiful 2010 675 Daytona now has a Harley Davidson part attached to it! There! It just feels good to finally get that out and not carry that awful secret anymore.
During the transformation of my 675 I decided to have the wheels powder coated. And since I had all the wheel bearings out I decided to just replace them with new ones. After installing the bearing in the sprocket carrier I realized that I had lost the circlip. This sucked but not a real emergency since I could just pop onto bike bandit and find the part. Worst case scenario is I would be down a couple more weeks. Bike bandit shows the clip on the diagram but there is nowhere to add it to cart. I called the rep and found out that Triumph considers the part obsolete and it is unavailable. Almost in a panic, I jumped into the car and headed to the bike shop a couple of miles down the road and handed them the sprocket carrier. A couple of minutes later they handed me my sprocket carrier with a perfectly fit circlip.
My beautiful 2010 675 Daytona now has a Harley Davidson part attached to it! There! It just feels good to finally get that out and not carry that awful secret anymore.
Haha that was hilarious!
Reminds me of a similar incident I had.
In the middle of a dyno session we discovered a coolant leak and it turned out that the new headers I had installed were a bit beefier than stock and had burned a hole in a couple of radiator hoses.
Since the triumph sealer was permanently closed in my country, I was doing the tuning at the Kawasaki dealership, and, you guessed it, I had to get a couple of Kawasaki hoses cut to size and installed to bring the bike back to life!
Needless to say it weighed on my mind so much that I ordered the hoses from triumph UK and had them shipped internationally. I replaced them at the next service even though the Kawasaki ones were doing their job.
Just couldn't keep them on for some twisted reason!
I'd have done the same thing with the hoses, I hate "hacking" my bikes; the correct part must be used. But there are some things I wouldn't think about twice, like that snap ring or fork seals; same supplier will be making those for several brands, it's the same thing on a different branded bag. I've done that sort of thing before, like installing Yamaha MT-07 fork seals on my friend's Kawasaki Z900.
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