I’m bound and determined to keep the old Tiger in motion. Triumph has abandoned me in
terms of parts support, but there is another way and Classic Bike Magazine shows you how to find it. I used to depend on Practical Sports Bikes for keeping these pre-classics in motion, but they killed it.
The biggest thing to get your head around is being ready to find alternatives that meet the needs you’re facing rather than following the manual and hoping for parts to arrive that you can swap in. One of my issues on a 90k+ bike is slack in the machine. The throttle stop has worn down over the many miles so I’ve been playing with putting a spacer nut on there.
When I had it apart today I used the grinder to try two different cuts of nut to get my idle back to where it should be. The middle one gives me perhaps a mm of recovered space on the pin that catches the throttle when it returns to idle at a point that doesn’t make the engine struggle.
Another one of those vintage approaches is around battling fasteners. You can never assume something will come off as it should. In this case the fastener on the throttle casing on the handlebar creates swear words.
The clutch cable was fraying by the transmission so it was well past time. My thought is that if this one lasts as long as the first one (over 90k), then I’ll be happy. I ran both cables next to the existing ones to get the runs right and then removed the old ones afterwards. It was a satisfying Sunday afternoon in the garage.
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| No complaints (other than Triumph not supporting its own machines when they are less than 20 years old). These cables both did over 90k in brutal Canadian temperature changes. |
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| A satisfying Sunday afternoon getting the Tiger sorted. I think another couple of hours and I’ll have it back in motion for the end of the riding season here. |
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