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riffer

riffer

Joined Sep 2015
17 Posts | 4+
Upper Hutt, New Zealand
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Hey everyone,

Simon here from Upper Hutt, New Zealand. Here's my Gen 1 Tuono R (2005). It's mostly stock, with the exception of the fairings and side covers being replaced by all the carbon fibre goodies, GP One levers and braided lines for brakes. Still getting used to it after a week (where it's rained continuously). I've been riding for 36 years and had a few bikes in that time. First V-twin would you believe! Always been a four-cylinder man until my last bike, a 2004 Triumph Sprint RS, which met an untimely death when a driver who was concentrating more on his cellphone than the stop sign I was stopped at decided my Triumph's time had come.

I'm a project manager by day, parent of 4, and rock musician when I get the chance. Ex VicePresident of the Bikers Rights Organisation of New Zealand Wellington Branch, and motorcyclist for life.

Thanks for having me on board.
 
Welcome fellow. I think you have won the award for best intro so far!
re. 180Slayers comment. I guess that's why Scots folk emigrated to NZ those years ago with same place names (St Andrews, Elgin, Invercargill, etc). Cos they liked the weather! ;) Albeit NZ has even more stunning scenary!
 
Welcome to the forum pal, & great opening post,

Have you manged to form an opinion yet, regarding the twin compared with the in line 4's
 
Welcome (afo) from a magnet grey Tuono rider in Wellie. It's an awesome bike, with a much more exciting power delivery than the triumph. If you don't have a mechanic yet, try Garth at independent motorcycles in town, he's just done the big service on mine and fine a bang up job including getting the back bake working again. He's also bloody good bloke with beers ready in the fridge.
 
chris13 said:
Welcome to the forum pal, & great opening post,

Have you manged to form an opinion yet, regarding the twin compared with the in line 4's
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Well...

I tried to describe my bike to a non biker lately. I said this... It goes exactly where you look. It accelerates faster than nearly any other car on the road. It stops faster. It revs to 10500 rpm. Up to 3000 there's nothing. From 3 to 4,500 rpm it wants to shake out your teeth. From 4500 to 6000 there's the most glorious wave of torque you can spend all day just sailing along in. And from 6000 it just wants to pull you off the back while lifting the front wheel in the air.

And he looked at me as if I'd said something bad.
 
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Paul D said:
.... that's why Scots folk emigrated to NZ those years ago with same place names (St Andrews, Elgin, Invercargill, etc). Cos they liked the weather! ;) Albeit NZ has even more stunning scenary!
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.....and the sheep, dinnae forget the sheep..

welcome Riff min
 
YevJenko said:
Welcome (afo) from a magnet grey Tuono rider in Wellie. It's an awesome bike, with a much more exciting power delivery than the triumph. If you don't have a mechanic yet, try Garth at independent motorcycles in town, he's just done the big service on mine and fine a bang up job including getting the back bake working again. He's also bloody good bloke with beers ready in the fridge.
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Thanks for that man. I'll make sure I give you a good wave when I see you on the road. Ain't that many Tuono riders in Welly. I tend to do my own spannering but good to know there's someone who others who have the same bike recommend. I need to fettle my suspension though - I've got the front pretty good but just not that sorted in the rear yet. My sag is all wrong and I've just made the rear spring tighter to try and reduce the softness - it's got a bit of a side to side wobble when throwing it around a corner but I've noticed it also needs a fair bit of body English thrown in to the mix as well so need to get used to that. My daily commute is Upper Hutt over Haywards Hill SH58, round Paremata Rd and SH1 to Grenada North so amid good corners on Paremata Rd I've also got that abysmal goat track that is Haywards - and it's really testing the suspension. Appreciate any ideas on the suspension setups for Welly roads and a 98kg rider.
 
rico said:
less pies? :thumbup:cheers
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Don't get me started buddy... ever since the missus bought one of those bloody fitbit things there's been sod all pies at Chez Riffer...

I've tightened up the rear which made it handle a heap better (put the damping/rebound back to the factory settings) as it stopped that slight wobble. Then I needed a bit more preload in the front. Handling nice now. A big difference was setting the air pressure lower in the tyres. I've got Pirelli Rosso IIs on this one - my last bike (a 2004 Triumph Sprint RS single-sided swingarm model) ran 38 front and 42 rear with Bridgestone S20s. The Pirellis seem to need to be a bit lower in pressure to work well. Running 34 front and 38 rear. Absolutely loving the bike.
 
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riffer said:
Don't get me started buddy... ever since the missus bought one of those bloody fitbit things there's been sod all pies at Chez Riffer...

I've tightened up the rear which made it handle a heap better (put the damping/rebound back to the factory settings) as it stopped that slight wobble. Then I needed a bit more preload in the front. Handling nice now. A big difference was setting the air pressure lower in the tyres. I've got Pirelli Rosso IIs on this one - my last bike (a 2004 Triumph Sprint RS single-sided swingarm model) ran 38 front and 42 rear with Bridgestone S20s. The Pirellis seem to need to be a bit lower in pressure to work well. Running 34 front and 38 rear. Absolutely loving the bike.
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I'm in oz art the mo, wishing I had the bike here, but even I get back we could grab a coffee and you can see how mine is set up if your want a comparison
 
YevJenko said:
I'm in oz art the mo, wishing I had the bike here, but even I get back we could grab a coffee and you can see how mine is set up if your want a comparison
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Sounds good to me. I'll send you a PM with my contact details.
 

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