Early 2005 America. Build date 11/04. Near 20k miles.
Left my gas on by accident, subsequent start the next day resulted in a loud back-fire. You know the drill and can read about it at
Thin and
Case.
I did eliminate all the cheap "pray it's not the case" ideas (new battery, solid ground connection, whirring and ugly crunching noise is coming from the starter area, etc etc etc.
I was really hoping the Hinckley's truly were "over engineered", but the fact is I have a several hundred pound English paper-weight in the garage.
My options?
- Local dealer's solution was to trade it in for one of his bikes? Thanks for the help.
- $4k+ out of pocket to rebuild with new cases with the hope that Triumph may reimburse me for parts?
- Roll the dice, pay $1.5k minimum plus my time to R2 an engine with unknown history from
Pinwall?
- Find someone who can pin and weld? I can't and don't know anyone I trust to do it., ie. driving 300 miles and having the fix fail.
- Lastly, convert the bike back to stock configuration. Sell my extensive bolt-on's down to the chromed fork lowers on Ebay one at a time and sell the bike in its current state for chump change. Take what I can make and buy one of Milwaukee's finest.
Sigh. Feeling sick to my stomach and I mowed the lawn since this pic.
http://home.comcast.net/~thomas.dziak/Bike2.jpg
