Bugger...

[Headbanger]

Anyone know how much a new front wheel for a speed triple would cost?

[slofox]

Ahhhhheeeerrrrrr Can we ask why ya need it? Or should we just shaddup?

[steve_t]

This thread is useless without pics

[Headbanger]

Just rang the dealer , $2k
Going to look into a repair.

A couple weeks back I was tearing up a backwater road here in the Wairarapa at dusk and hit a freakin rock some imbecile left on my part of the road, I was doing a fair clip (howling like a banshee comes to mind) and the entire bike was launched into the air.

Didn't really think of it again until I brought the bike into work so I could have a quick getaway back to Wanganui, me and one of the lads were havin a chat when I noticed a bastard of a dent in the rim, on closer inspection I found the rim is split.

So yeah, Not the exiting story you may have envisioned, but its ruined me day

[slofox]

$2k? Fark...solid gold is it then?

[sil3nt]

Surely you can get some lighter aftermarket wheels for $2000! Time to bling your bike out.

[Smifffy]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GENUINE-TRIUMP...item3cb41f3f5f

[Mom]

Just rang the dealer , $2k
Going to look into a repair.

A couple weeks back I was tearing up a backwater road here in the Wairarapa at dusk and hit a freakin rock some imbecile left on my part of the road, I was doing a fair clip (howling like a banshee comes to mind) and the entire bike was launched into the air.

Didn't really think of it again until I brought the bike into work so I could have a quick getaway back to Wanganui, me and one of the lads were havin a chat when I noticed a bastard of a dent in the rim, on closer inspection I found the rim is split.

So yeah, Not the exiting story you may have envisioned, but its ruined me day

Arse! Insurance excess is much cheaper than new wheels. If that is not an option, put a call out inthe racing forums, I have seen wheels for sale in there.

[John_H]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Trium...s#ht_635wt_939

[Headbanger]

$2k? Fark...solid gold is it then?

And that was the cheap option.

My bike being the anniversary model has a "hand painted" pin stripe on her, They had a separate order number for it but no price as it has to be manufacured to order....

I wonder how many more thousand to get a wheel out of the store room and stick on a pin-stripe....

[Headbanger]

Ebay might be worth looking at, I'd rather have an undamaged wheel than a repaired one. need a later model though then those linked.

[trumpy]

Rimrite Alloys in Palmerston North. These guys do great work. I had several alloy rims repaired when I was racing open wheelers (including one with a 60mm x 40mm chunk missing out of it) and all the wheels came back looking brand new and worked out a lot cheaper than buying a new rim. Worth checking out.

[Katman]

John at New Zealand Wheel & Frame in Cambridge should be able to sort it.

[Headbanger]

Surely you can get some lighter aftermarket wheels for $2000! Time to bling your bike out.

For $2000 I could replace the wheel with an entire bike, Bolt the back end of her to where my front wheel currently resides and have a twin engine tandem motorcycle.

No idea what sort of crazy counter-steering would happen when hitting a corner though.....(though someone will no doubt tell us)

[Headbanger]

Arse! Insurance excess is much cheaper than new wheels.

Insurance is for less arrogant more sensible people.

I have my own system going, I call it "I dare shit to go wrong"

I insure nothing, I throw away warranties and proof of purchase, I never keep records, do the paperwork or pay any fees.

I stand before everything that can fuck with me and I go " I fuckin dare you to fuck with me motherfucker"

So far its been a massive fail.