Re: [ST] Time for my first rear tyre

[Stephen McSpadden <stephen.mcspadden@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:32 25/02/04, Andrew Tait wrote:

>Yup, that's me.  In fact it was your old Sprint that made me look at 
>Triumph in the first place.  Every day I walked past it I thought "The 
>Diversion 900 is looking great these days", and then I spotted the Triumph 
>badge and thought "The Diversion 900 that someone has painted a Triumph 
>logo onto is looking great these days"

OK that made me laugh. That was a great bike - just too top heavy for my 
build. Fine once rolling, but a real sod if I parked it the wrong way. 
Pushing/Paddling it backwards up any sort of incline was murder.

>Then I found out that Triumph still existed, and 8 weeks later had the 
>ST.  And then when I walked up the hill I thought "I've got a shiny '00 ST 
>and he's got an old Sprint"  Yah boo.  Etc.
>
>That didn't last long...

Touché.

It was seeing your very, very, very shiny ST that started me looking at the 
newer Triumphs - I was going to buy a Fazer or a Hornet. Going back to the 
Triumph dealer I was just about to buy one of the re-imported RS models 
that Triumph UK brought back from the US, but then the ex-demo ST turned up 
with the newer engine and I went for it. One day I might even own it. :D


>I should be Sprinting next week.  Got my rear wheel off at the weekend to 
>get a new valve stem fitted as it had a slow leak at the base.  Hopefully 
>I'll bump into you at some point.

That happened to my "old" Sprint too. Right after a tyre change. It was a 
very slow leak and only showed up on the ride home when the rear went 
sliding out a tad when getting onto the M74. (I live in Law near Carluke) I 
got home to find 14psi in the rear tyre. Oops.

I hope I don't "bump" into you, but would be only to glad to meet up. If 
you fancy a run at the weekend I know one or two other (fairly sensible - 
honest) chaps who all enjoy a run to the usual places and some of the not 
so usual ones.

Have fun and catch you around,

Stephen (Spud) McS.



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