Here we have for sale my 1999 Triumph Trophy 4 1200, very nice condition standard apart from heated grips. 38.000 miles only for sale as cannot ride it anymore. This is a lovely bike it has been standing for 2 years. Starts and runs lovely it will come with 12 months mot. £1650.00

Not been around much recently.

Woke up Sunday morning on the 9th with my left arm like a dead weight. Assumed I'd slept on it and it would be OK. By lunchtime, it wasn't back to normal so I asked mum to drop me to the hospital after some online research that scared me crumpetless (I put that bakery item in, didn't know if the filter would pick it up).

Turns out I'd had a minor stroke overnight. I'd been to see my witch doctor on Saturday afternoon for a deep tissue massage which they reckon triggered it. There's a tear in the main artery leading to the brain in my neck. This had allowed a clot to form and, luckily as it turns out, the massage had broken this clot up. It was a ticking timebomb according to the specialist and is likely due to stress (the main reason I left my previous job in March so I blame them). I have been extremely lucky and I am recovering quite well. I've been going stir crazy for the last two weeks and I've another two weeks minimum off work. I have full motor function again but my muscles are getting tired so quickly at the moment. I've managed to do some light gardening (more like deforestation) in the past few days but it's wearing me out.

Worst thing is I'm not allowed to drive/ride until I've had another MRI and been given the all clear  Perfect weather for it too  Oh well, plenty of opportunity for cleaning them.

Hope everyone is well, Not been on in a while. Busy, Life etc..

I need some help with the YBR..

I took a trip to Cambridge and back to Peterborough and after the trip, there was a new sound from the engine. sound like its coming from the top end.

A sort of whirring, winding sound but only under load. So when accelerating. Just holding speed I could not hear it.

The bike has been running fine. No issues with it running etc but I was concerned about this new sound so I decided to investigate today.

I took out the cam shaft to check it out and make sure the bearings are ok as well as other tings. All seemed good in the top end so no clue as to where the sound was coming from there.

But upon putting it all back together it went to Cinnamon Swirl. The cam chain decided it was not going to seat correctly on the bottom end and slipped about 45 degrees. So now when the TDC mark was in the right spot on the magneto, the cam sprocket TDC marking was no longer at the top is was on the left point forward. Oh yay. and it did not sound healthy.. obv...

So some messing about and I got it to seat correctly but the bike would not start and sounded like it lacked compression. Virtually no resistance felt on the kick start. Oh Cinnamon Swirl. Has that things skipping teeth caused a valve to get bent?

So I went on a mission to take a look at the valves.. What fun dismantling an engine is. Took it apart enough for me to get in there and take a look. And do you know what I found?

Sweet Éclair all. It "looks" fine but looks can be deceiving. Before I started taking the top end apart, the engine sounded quite rough when turning over. So Once it was all back together I took the little adjusters out of the rockers so they would not move the valves much. They still pushed on them a small amount a few mm. I tuned the engine over to hear how it sounded and this time it sounded fine. Still Éclair all compression though.

I put the valves back together and tried to start it. Apart from the engine not sounding like its got rocks in it, it still did not start and still Éclair all compression.

Is a valve slightly bent out of shape maybe? I can get some new valves. Just a ball ache to get the engine apart again to fit them. Or could buy a new top end that has the valves in it already.

This could all be a deep rabbit hole that I am about to go down when it may not even be the issue. It could be bad luck and timing and something else is wrong.. who knows.

Also, when i say it wont start, Theres no attempt at all not even a little pop or bang here and there. Just turns over and over and over and over. With little compression. I took the spark plug out and plugged the hole with my thumb and turned it over. There is a little compression there but I can hold it in with my thumb and thats not something that should be possible. There is also a spark and Im sure there is fuel as the pump is running and i can smell it when i had the exhaust off.

A friend just gave me a bike lift. Looks like its going to get some use sooner than I thought.

Ill add some pictures I managed to take. Maybe someone can spot something I didn't or thought was normal.

That will teach me for going on a missing to find the source of a noise!

Cheers blokes and galls.

The Tank bag from Amazon fits really well and will do the job fine.

That could easily have you off your bike. You need to have your head on a swivel these days for the damn things. As it's summer the biggest hazzard we have in Northumberland at the moment are dead animals in the road. These go from mice/rats/squirrels (nuisance) to badgers & foxes (very dodgy, particularly badgers as they are solid) to deer (piggin' lethal)! That's on top of the pot holes & gravel... Ride safe