Does anyone know why? Will it be the bad fuel quality? I had just filled up his tank.

After showing up at the 2019 bike shows, Honda launched the CT125 in March until you-know-what happened. Now it’s out as a 2021 model with enough out there to have a good old speculate. It’s expected...

I was thinking all I had to do was take the gear off the back???...

A look through my on-board tool box and some bush mechanics applied I continued home....

Whenever come back from a long ride, I see a couple of these black spots on my helmet/ motorcycle. They are sticky like grease and can be wiped off with a cloth....

Installed on top of the transfer case...

That seal the housing of the fuel pump to the tank? The OEM kit is expensive and will take a week to delivered....

I'm getting ready to paint the tank and fenders. To ramp up to this there is all the standard sheet metal prep work, but before that, I wanted to make sure the tank was in good enough shape to use....

Now it is just rust to deal with. There are a lot of ways to remove rust from steel. One way is acids. Strong ones like muriatic (hydrochloric), or weaker ones like phosphoric, acetic (vinegar), ci...

The only other oriface in the tank is for the fuel petcock. To eliminate as many external sources of leaks as possible, I decided not to use the petcock, but use a simple hose barb adaptor instead....

The leak was where the rear mounting tab was welded to the tank. It looked like an incompete weld, or a weld may have pulled loose or cracked. This would likely be a high stress area, and it's possi...

After I posted the above, I got a couple of messages that I had overlooked one potential source of leaks. The way I plugged the filler neck with an expanding stopper put the filler neck joint outside...

Now that I have the tank painted and pin striped, it still won't be truly complete until the Triumph badges are mounted. The badges are chrome plated die cast pieces screwed to either side of th...