By Mike Grage, Technical and Customer Support at British Iron and The Bonneville Shop. You might have noticed something, that those Keihin and Mikuni carburetors on your late model Triumph are not your grandpa’s Amal’s. But they are very similar in function to the Bing carbs Triumph used on your dad’s 1982 Bonneville Executive. Most of the time,
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Hinckley Triumph Maintenance and Restoration Part 3: Resurrecting A Barn Find Hinckley From Mike Grage: Customer Service and Tech Support at The Bonneville Shop and British Iron. Pre-Ride Inspection In part one of this blog series, of Hinckley Triumph maintenance and restoration we pulled our bike out from wherever it was sitting and checked to see if it
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Part 2: Resurrecting a Barn Bike: Hydraulic Brake Restoration (non-ABS) Triumph Hydraulic Brake Restoration By Mike Grage: Tech and Customer Support at The Bonneville Shop and British Iron This is more of a third part of my restoring a Triumph from the Hinckley factory blog series. The Constant Velocity Carburetor Cleaning/Tuning Tips & Tricks should be considered the second part, but
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By Mike Grage, Tech and Customer Support at The Bonneville Shop and British Iron When I started my career as a motorcycle technician after graduating MMI in 1991 I had no idea that every spring every shop I worked in would be filled with motorcycles that ran when they were parked anywhere from a few months
GOT A SPEED TRIPLE? NEED TRIUMPH PARTS? CHECK OUT THE GOODS. Brake parts, electrical, filters, chains and sprockets in stock and ship free to the lower 48. The Triumph Speed Triple was initial released in 1994 as a nod to the 1938 Speed Twin. With the same engine as the Daytona, Thunderbird, and Trident many
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The Triumph Street Cup was first released in 2017 and had a few short years in production until 2020. This 900cc has the same liquid cooled parallel twin as the Street Twin but had some modifications to give it that racer feel. With the Ace’s handlebar and the elevated humped seat, it offers a different
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Want to know what year and where your motorcycle was made? Since Triumph organizes their parts by serial numbers and aftermarket parts are organized by year models it can be tedious to determine the correct parts for your motorcycle. This Triumph VIN explanation will guide you in the right direction. A full explanation and verification
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Electronic Fuel Injection EFI Diagnostics and how to troubleshoot your bike. By Mike Grage, Customer and Technical Support at Modern British Iron “Understanding how the EFI sensor loop works is the foundation for finding a fault in the rainbow-colored spaghetti we call a wiring harness.” The most common question I get when discussing Electronic Fuel
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Explanation of EFI Diagnostic Trouble Codes for OBD-II By Mike Grage, Customer and Technical Support at Modern British Iron EFI diagnostics only got an honorable mention when I attended Motorcycle Mechanic’s Institute in 1990-91. Then it started putting the meat and potatoes into my paychecks sometime around 1998. My EFI training is from annual new
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The Importance of Right to Repair Legislation Written in partnership with The Bonneville Shop By Mike Grage, Customer and Technical Support at Modern British Iron On February 2, 2022, H.R. 6570 was introduced to Congress and was referred to the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce. It has not moved since. If passed it
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