[MGFChapin]

Even if you have Triumph's supposedly "new and improved" coolant hose clamps like I do on my '15 675R, they aren't. Either stick with the worm drive style or Oetiker clamps. An hour into our 6-hour endurance race yesterday, one of the hoses popped off on the front straight and ended our race with a highside. Rider walked away, fortunately.

 

[*GT*]

Thanks for the tip! I'll have have the same kind of clamp I'll change them out before the next track day.

 

[mpusch]

That's some scary crap right there. Jeez...Glad the rider was ok.

 

[dogged]

Wow, sorry to hear that. Glad the rider is ok and hope the bike just got a little mud in it. I just went through dumping my coolant for water wetter, now I've got to do it again! Thanks for the head's up.

 

[dogged]

BTW, those titanium headers still look sexy covered in mud!

 

[MGFChapin]

hope the bike just got a little mud in it

A bit more than that but it's all fixable. All in all, pretty lucky considering the speed involved.

 

[bill_yyy]

That's really unlucky, those clamps actually do seem to fit very tight, I replaced that exact clamp on mine with a worm drive clamp purely because I couldn't get it back on there properly with my tools.

 

[dogged]

That's really unlucky, those clamps actually do seem to fit very tight, I replaced that exact clamp on mine with a worm drive clamp purely because I couldn't get it back on there properly with my tools.

Just another PSA on worm clamps. You need to run a safety wire across the flat in the screw and tie it back to the other side. I had a worm gear back off of my exhaust protector last weekend and it came off. And it was really tight!

 

[whirlybird]

I've gone through so many issues with melting hoses and broken clamps on this bike... I removed all the squeeze clamps because of the above reasons and replaced them with very nice worm drive clamps. I had one of those snap in half on me. The only times I've ever crashed this bike have been because of coolant/water on the tire from a hose or a clamp failure. It makes it hard to ride it confidently. One was a bad highside that crashed me out of the lead, got lucky enough to just have a wicked bruise on my leg from that one; can't believe I didn't get run over. I am pretty over all the failures. I am hoping that Samco hoses and Oetiker clamps will solve this issue once and for all.

 

[Lockdown]

We had the same issue on our RSV4. Hoses didn’t pop off as they started to weep first, swapped them all with ring grips and to date so far so good.
I find it amazing that in the 21st century the manufacturers can’t get a simple clamp to work when they release these bikes out onto the general population