Back to the dealership

[Molinoman]

Tomorrow morning I take the bike in to have the accessory outlet installed along with the heated grips. On this past Sunday I noticed that the "fog light" on the left side was not working. So I pulled the ring off and checked the wires to the bulb and they were tight but the light still did not work. Hopefully it is just a bad bulb and will light up with the new replacement.

The bike has a 160 miles on it now (rode it to work 3 days this week) and it is running great. I had to put a F-150 in it's place as it raced thru Cantonment at around 80 miles an hour and when reaching the 65 mph zone sped up even more. I pulled up next to it, looked at the driver, looked at my speedometer and we were at 95 mph, I looked back at him and shook my head and then put about a football field's length between us before I had to make the turn to my road to the house...felt good to be able to accelerate that fast but may need to be a little more careful with the throttle as we do have a pretty good police/highway patrol presence in this area.

Dennis

 

[GPMAZ]

I'd advise against using those heated grips. After a number of heat cycles the plastic piece holding the throttle cable will fatigue and break, leaving you on the side of the road.

 

[Sensfan]

Tomorrow morning I take the bike in to have the accessory outlet installed along with the heated grips. On this past Sunday I noticed that the "fog light" on the left side was not working. So I pulled the ring off and checked the wires to the bulb and they were tight but the light still did not work. Hopefully it is just a bad bulb and will light up with the new replacement.

The bike has a 160 miles on it now (rode it to work 3 days this week) and it is running great. I had to put a F-150 in it's place as it raced thru Cantonment at around 80 miles an hour and when reaching the 65 mph zone sped up even more. I pulled up next to it, looked at the driver, looked at my speedometer and we were at 95 mph, I looked back at him and shook my head and then put about a football field's length between us before I had to make the turn to my road to the house...felt good to be able to accelerate that fast but may need to be a little more careful with the throttle as we do have a pretty good police/highway patrol presence in this area.

Dennis

I still cant for the life of my figure out heated grips in Florida,lol. I have had to replace 2 fog light bulbs since June, one 2 weeks in,the other last week, fortunately they are dirt cheap and only take 1 minute to change. Remember what uncle Ben said "with great power comes great responsibility" save yourself some $ride safe,dont get caught , cheers.

 

[Tripps]

I go through 10 fog light bulbs for every headlight or other bulb, not sure why. Heated gloves keep your hands much warmer than heated grips, by the way.

 

[vanguard138]

I'd advise against using those heated grips. After a number of heat cycles the plastic piece holding the throttle cable will fatigue and break, leaving you on the side of the road.

Hapened to me. Now I am afraid to use the replacent ones they put on. Got heated gloves instead.

 

[Hayabusa]

I'd advise against using those heated grips. After a number of heat cycles the plastic piece holding the throttle cable will fatigue and break, leaving you on the side of the road.

GPMAZ is right I got stuck up a mountain in France 45 mins from the nearest help........ always carry duck tape and cable ties...

 

[R3 Guy]

Dennis,
Heated glove liners and gear-really is the best way to go. Check out the Powerlet site.

 

[Molinoman]

GPMAZ, well...today I went ahead and put on the heated grips anyway, but I did ask the question and after seeing the kit I am not sure where this plastic piece that is holding the throttle cable is...in short I didn't see it. Tomorrow I'll take a picture of the unit and post it and let me know if it is the same one that you had break on you. My control for the heated grips is on the left side of the handlebars and other than being bolted around the handlebars it is not attached to anything much less the throttle cable which is on the right side of the handlebars.

I had the 12V accessory socket installed and bought the attachment that goes from the Triumph Optimizer battery "maintainer" and plugs right into the powerlet receptacle.

I found out that the 140 Cubic Inches embellisher is no longer available to order but Dink did find two dealerships that had it and called the first one...they confirmed they had one and are sending it to D&D's on Tuesday.

And the right foglight bulb was defective, was replaced and now I have a full working set of foglights now.

All in all a good day.

 

[mcather]

Didn't Triumph fix the heated grips melt down problem?
Seems like there dealer told me the new grips were fine.
cat

 

[mexican]

Dennis, isugest that you run all of your electric gear independent from the bike's operating system, that way if somethi g malfunctions you can just unplug it and no harm done.