Flash! RS Sprint chain recall

[don draper <donnydogood@xxxxxxxx>]

Report Date: May 11, 2000 09:51:05 PM

                         NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID Number: 00V043000
                         Component: SUSPENSION:MOTORCYCLE ONLY
                         Manufacturer: TRIUMPH MOTORCYCLES
                         Potential Number of units affected:  137

Year: 2000
Make: TRIUMPH
Model: SPRINT RS
Manufactured From: DEC 1999 To: JAN 2000 
Year of Recall: '00
Type of Report: Vehicle 
Summary:

    Vehicle Description: Motorcycles. The final drive chain side
plate was not hardened correctly. 

    This chain could fracture causing a loss of drive to the rear
wheel. 

    Dealers will replace the drive chains. Triumph has not yet
provided an owner notification schedule. Owners who take their
    vehicles to an authorized dealer on an agreed upon service date
and do not receive the free remedy within a reasonable time
    should contact Triumph at 1-770-631-9500. Also contact the
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Auto Safety
    Hotline at 1-888-DASH-2-DOT (1-888-327-4236).

  http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/problems/recalls/recmmy1.cfm

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