Question for you experienced Triumph owners

[RKTNMYPKT]

You have a new Rocket and consider travelling 200 miles too great a chore? Sell it man. You obviously don't want to ride it.

Took the words right outa my mouth

 

[bbach]

You have a new Rocket and consider travelling 200 miles too great a chore? Sell it man. You obviously don't want to ride it.

For warranty that I can do myself, probably wouldn't ride around the block.

 

[bbach]

I purchased mine from www.lonelec.co.uk, recommended on TuneECU's website. £11.66 for the cable and £4.49 for Royal Airmail shipping came to US$25.17 total to California. Cable is well made, comes with a micro-USB adapter so you can use it with your Android (download the TuneECU app for ~$14).

Thank you. I'll look into that.

 

[idk]

If you are using TuneECU with a 'Droid then you will need an OTG cable to connect the 'Droid to the USB cale. I have a few OTG cables that I bought for about $3.00 each. They are very handy as they can also be used to connect thumbdrives or keyboards and mice to the 'Droid.

 

[alpental]

If you are using TuneECU with a 'Droid then you will need an OTG cable to connect the 'Droid to the USB cale. I have a few OTG cables that I bought for about $3.00 each. They are very handy as they can also be used to connect thumbdrives or keyboards and mice to the 'Droid.

Correct. The Lonelec cable comes with the OTG cable included. I hadn't thought about other uses like those... interesting!

 

[CanberraR3]

For warranty that I can do myself, probably wouldn't ride around the block.

Well unless you are actually a dealer you can't do "warranty" work yourself, no matter how clever you think you are. But you seem to be missing the point. Real riders are happy to find any excuse to go for a decent ride. I went for a 250km joy ride on Sunday when I could quite easily have stayed home. I do 300km each way just to visit my brother when I could quite easily call him on the phone.

Your warranty is a very valuable asset and well worth protecting. If the "price" you pay is an excuse for a good ride, is that so bad? No being prepared to ride round the block for it means you're either exceeding wealthy or don't enjoy riding much at all.

 

[Ridefree]

Don't go thinking that nothing well go wrong with your bike and you don't really need the warranty. My bike was great till 8500 miles when it developed a slight noise. By 14600 miles the noise was so bad I could no longer ignore it. Full engine rebuild to fix it.$4800 in parts alone and that includes a new head. Thank god it was under factory warranty, there is no way I could have afforded it out of my pocket and I would be making payments on a bike that would have been sitting in the corner of the garage covered in boxes for years unless I took out a personal loan to get it fixed. Just something to think about.
Ridefree

 

[bbach]

Well unless you are actually a dealer you can't do "warranty" work yourself, no matter how clever you think you are. But you seem to be missing the point. Real riders are happy to find any excuse to go for a decent ride. I went for a 250km joy ride on Sunday when I could quite easily have stayed home. I do 300km each way just to visit my brother when I could quite easily call him on the phone.

Your warranty is a very valuable asset and well worth protecting. If the "price" you pay is an excuse for a good ride, is that so bad? No being prepared to ride round the block for it means you're either exceeding wealthy or don't enjoy riding much at all.

O I C

 

[TriumPhil]

Disregard Richard's hissyfit - he's prolly suffering from too little saddletime himself, bbach.

BTW, where are you located?

 

[bbach]

BTW, where are you located?

I live in the great white north, bismarck, nd. Short riding seasons but I manage to get in a few thousand miles each summer. Usually ride the black hills a couple times a year and then off through parts of Wyoming and up into the Rockies of Montana. I don't seem to stray much away from there on the bike but I do have a couple rides on my bucket list. How about you Phil?