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That's hard when you want your new bike to be a good experience.

Did you take it back to the dealer about the stalling like we advised?

The stalling when decelerating is not normal and has nothing to do with clutch or idle speed or throttle control. Those may contribute to stalling when pulling away under load - but not decellerating. The dealer should have fixed this (under warranty of course). It sounds like you are not getting any charging as a result of a faulty connection or something has failed (R/R or stator maybe).

Don't be too disheartened. Your bike is unlikely to be taken to bits. A good auto electrician should find the fault fairly quickly. It really is a great bike. You just need to get this glitch fixed - and realize that Triumph have not always put the 'best available' parts on as OEM - they have to keep to a budget. But overall the quality is right up there.

Perhaps the alarm false alarms may be due to the low battery/charging issue also. Personally I would not bother with an alarm. I have heard to many bad reports from those who had them and got rid of them.

Cheer up mate. I think you really only have one problem that is manifesting in a few different ways.



Thanks for all your replies...

I did take the bike in for the stalling issue. When I rode the bike home I got stuck in heavy traffic and it was only then that I realised they had increased the idle speed to around 1250rpm which I think is a bit high for an air-cooled bike and in the warm weather we are having. When I got home I turned the idle speed down to about 1050rpm - a tad above 1k anyway which I think has been recommended here on this forum. The dealer told me that more than that had been done to stop the stalling issue. However it still has stalled a few times since. I don't feel very confident about the dealer's ability to do the job.

Think this bike has stalled more times in one month than all the years of having other bikes. Three years and 8k miles on my last bike; the Honda Shadow without a stall tells me this is definitely an issue with the bike.

I feel really angry because I was going down the coast with a mate who has a Harley, so a weekend ruined. He thought my new bike was 'cool' so I said to him "Yeah, very cool and even cold". He laughed and I, well <sigh>

Alan

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