Well, I have been a bit busy
Wilbers 642 Night Line and front springs are on order, can't wait!!!
So about that SAMCO hose kit, the kit... is great, the way Triumph routed and designed the cooling system... I think the Rocket engineers had a little get together and were like "Hey, most things we have done so far are super easy to conduct maintenance on, lets **** with owners a bit and make this **** super ridiculous"
I highly recommend the SAMCO hoses if you never, ever, want to worry about them again. At just 15 months old, most of my hoses looked and felt like pure crap and I am not surprised at all that one of them blew out.
Then i decided to do my brakes, cause, well I figured it was time, just one of those instincts... sometimes it pays to listen to the little voices in your head:
About 2mm and maybe 3mm on the other side was all that was remaining
As you can see, that stupid, HOAT coolant is a NIGHTMARE to get completely off, it's going to take me a bit to get it washed out of all the cracks :/