I did it! I Joined the 2.5L Club

[Vector]

I escaped CA 5 years ago and never looked back. A once great place destroyed by lefty politics and lefties. I sure miss the NorCal riding, best there is.

 

[Vector]

Road it home today the 76 miles from San Bernardino. Beat the rain fortunately. Now there are exactly 80 miles. The dealer said they did a full check over the bike yesterday and showed me the checklist, but when I installed the FOBO sensors both the front and rear each were 10lbs under pressure. Either their pump was miscalibrated or they didn't do the check. Bike looked perfect though. They got the tires pumped up though and away I went. Such a thrill to ride, though I was on freeway to get home ahead of the weather. Will plan a proper ride next week after adjusting the foot rests and suspension along with a secondary check on the brakes and fluid levels. Planning all the farkling this week too. Need that Lamonster mount for my phone and possibly the enlarged rack so my dog carrier will have good support.

@Kevin frazier will have to wait a bit for my next post with pictures though . On the wrong computer.

I was visiting family in Palm Desert in 2013. Rode my 11 Scrambler to the San Berdo shop and left with a Trophy ST, worst bike I ever owned, had my lawyer push Triumph to refund every cent and take it back. Went back to HD for years, now have my 2023 R3GT, 2024 Speed 400 and my wife rides a Speedmaster. Triumph is doing good stuff these days.

 

[Jay]

Soi finally did my 10k service. Haven’t been riding the rocket as much. Most things went well until I got to the aircleaner. Fortunately with the several threads on tank removal! Was prepared for that step. But when I got to the air cleaner removal and reinstalling it I was suddenly unimpressed with Triumph. I was repeating many of the threads of frustration from others in my head and questioning why Triumph couldn’t have made that easier. Fortunately everything went back together and I got everything but the software check. Really dredding the 20k service now.

 

[Protonhound]

Soi finally did my 10k service. Haven’t been riding the rocket as much. Most things went well until I got to the aircleaner. Fortunately with the several threads on tank removal! Was prepared for that step. But when I got to the air cleaner removal and reinstalling it I was suddenly unimpressed with Triumph. I was repeating many of the threads of frustration from others in my head and questioning why Triumph couldn’t have made that easier. Fortunately everything went back together and I got everything but the software check. Really dredding the 20k service now.

Oh you'll get to take the whole front end apart for the 20k to check the clutch!

 

[mo8414]

Soi finally did my 10k service. Haven’t been riding the rocket as much. Most things went well until I got to the aircleaner. Fortunately with the several threads on tank removal! Was prepared for that step. But when I got to the air cleaner removal and reinstalling it I was suddenly unimpressed with Triumph. I was repeating many of the threads of frustration from others in my head and questioning why Triumph couldn’t have made that easier. Fortunately everything went back together and I got everything but the software check. Really dredding the 20k service now.

Yea seems any videos on the filter all edit out the hard part of actually removing it and installing it probably because they don't wanna show 20 minutea of fiddling around with it.

You can use tune ecu to reset the service light if you haven't yet. I'm surprised tou haven't installed a tune by now.

I guess thats the only good thing about living in a state with winter is the 20,000 mile valve check is still a couple years away for me.

 

[Jay]

Yea seems any videos on the filter all edit out the hard part of actually removing it and installing it probably because they don't wanna show 20 minutea of fiddling around with it.

You can use tune ecu to reset the service light if you haven't yet. I'm surprised tou haven't installed a tune by now.

I guess thats the only good thing about living in a state with winter is the 20,000 mile valve check is still a couple years away for me.

I bought the extended warranty and don't have a desire to fiddle with the tune right now. Plenty of power to keep me happy for the various roads I frequent. I bought an OBDStar from another forum member and just found that when you first get the unit you have to register it so now trying to track down that member for the log-in info, provided he remembers it . My fault for not making the time last year when first getting it, but the scanner looks to have lots of functionality.

The coolant is due this year, so I will flush that and the clutch lines. Then be totally ready for the next 10k miles.