It was mid november and i'd just got back from the NEC bike show, spent the day looking at fantastic new bikes, shaking hands with biking stars and having my picture taken with beautiful young ladies!

I had just re-mortgaged the house and cashed in my endowment's, i knew i should've payed it off the mortgage but what the heck you only live once. But what bike would i spend my cash on. At the time i had a sv650s, beautiful bike that i couldnt really fault, apart from poor quality finish on some parts. It was great fun to ride and i was seriously thinking about buying one of the newer models that are coming out in january. So i went straight to the suzuki stand and well.. i didnt like it.. too pointy. I like my bikes like my women, with a few curves!

So it was onto the kawasaki stand and the new zx6r mmm a beautiful bike specially in blue , noted it down on my short list.. Then onto the aprillia stand looking at rsv mille's very nice.. untill i got the insurance quote at nearly £1000 tptf!! Next it was the triumph stand and the new triumph daytona 600. God i love this bike its really looks the dogs dangies. "when can i put a deposit down?" i asked. "not untill march next year" i was told... dammit!

Ive always liked triumphs and zombie will tell you all ive always had a thing for the tt600, just the bad press reports about poor engine respose and styling has put me off abit. So just over a week later I found myself in my local triumph shop with intentions on trying to leave my name on a list for the new daytona.. walked into the showroom and there it was.. a metallic blue tt600. It was love at first sight, and the price tag helped too, at £5495 it was at least £1500 cheaper than the new daytona and zx6. Then i heard the familiar "can i help you sir?" from the salesman. A brief chat and he offered that i try the demonstrator they had sitting outside.. how could i refuse! So a hour later i was back with crash helmet and leathers and off i went for a test ride. It rode as good as it looked and there was no throttle hesitation the press always kept going on about. An hour later i was back at the shop. Without even seeing my bike i was offered a good deal and they offered to put a grab rail on the bike in the price. That was good enough for me and i put down my £100 deposit.

A week later i picked up my first brand new bike for 12 years, the last new bike i had was a yamaha tzr125 and that was blue too funnily enough. I carefully rode it home and already i noticed something not quite right, a funny buzzy vibration coming from under the petrol tank, nothing serious, just sounded like something touching.. hmmmm. I stopped off at my dads on the way to show off and he noticed something else, a distortion in the silencer where the bracket welds on.. bugger! so a quick phonecall back to the dealer who quickly offered to swap the silencer over if i went back in the afternoon and they would look at the vibration. I had a few hours to kill so next over to zombies house to show off some more ... "hi, is wayne in?" " no, he's just popped out. He will be back in a minute tho if you want to wait?" A few minutes later zombie turns up with his brother and announces he's just bought a triumph too! So i run him back to the shop on the back of the tt600 so he can pick up his triumph sprint and then i followed him back to his, followed by a quick go on the sprint. Nice bike, loads of torque.. most of you know the rest , just dont let your boss ride your bike!

Took the tt back in the afternoon, after waiting a few minutes the mechanic came out with my silencer and a new one. both had the same distortion.. then we looked at 5 other tt's in the showroom, all the same. So not much i can do about that i guess. Then they took my bike out for a ride for about 15 minutes and came back saying the vibration was nothing to worry about and if it hasnt gone away by the first service they would strip it down to find out what it was.. That didnt really fill me with confidence and its still there 200 miles later.

It was mid november and i'd just got back from the NEC bike show, spent the day looking at fantastic new bikes, shaking hands with biking stars and having my picture taken with beautiful young ladies!

I had just re-mortgaged the house and cashed in my endowment's, i knew i should've payed it off the mortgage but what the heck you only live once. But what bike would i spend my cash on. At the time i had a sv650s, beautiful bike that i couldnt really fault, apart from poor quality finish on some parts. It was great fun to ride and i was seriously thinking about buying one of the newer models that are coming out in january. So i went straight to the suzuki stand and well.. i didnt like it.. too pointy. I like my bikes like my women, with a few curves!

So it was onto the kawasaki stand and the new zx6r mmm a beautiful bike specially in blue , noted it down on my short list.. Then onto the aprillia stand looking at rsv mille's very nice.. untill i got the insurance quote at nearly £1000 tptf!! Next it was the triumph stand and the new triumph daytona 600. God i love this bike its really looks the dogs dangies. "when can i put a deposit down?" i asked. "not untill march next year" i was told... dammit!

Ive always liked triumphs and zombie will tell you all ive always had a thing for the tt600, just the bad press reports about poor engine respose and styling has put me off abit. So just over a week later I found myself in my local triumph shop with intentions on trying to leave my name on a list for the new daytona.. walked into the showroom and there it was.. a metallic blue tt600. It was love at first sight, and the price tag helped too, at £5495 it was at least £1500 cheaper than the new daytona and zx6. Then i heard the familiar "can i help you sir?" from the salesman. A brief chat and he offered that i try the demonstrator they had sitting outside.. how could i refuse! So a hour later i was back with crash helmet and leathers and off i went for a test ride. It rode as good as it looked and there was no throttle hesitation the press always kept going on about. An hour later i was back at the shop. Without even seeing my bike i was offered a good deal and they offered to put a grab rail on the bike in the price. That was good enough for me and i put down my £100 deposit.

A week later i picked up my first brand new bike for 12 years, the last new bike i had was a yamaha tzr125 and that was blue too funnily enough. I carefully rode it home and already i noticed something not quite right, a funny buzzy vibration coming from under the petrol tank, nothing serious, just sounded like something touching.. hmmmm. I stopped off at my dads on the way to show off and he noticed something else, a distortion in the silencer where the bracket welds on.. bugger! so a quick phonecall back to the dealer who quickly offered to swap the silencer over if i went back in the afternoon and they would look at the vibration. I had a few hours to kill so next over to zombies house to show off some more ... "hi, is wayne in?" " no, he's just popped out. He will be back in a minute tho if you want to wait?" A few minutes later zombie turns up with his brother and announces he's just bought a triumph too! So i run him back to the shop on the back of the tt600 so he can pick up his triumph sprint and then i followed him back to his, followed by a quick go on the sprint. Nice bike, loads of torque.. most of you know the rest , just dont let your boss ride your bike!

Took the tt back in the afternoon, after waiting a few minutes the mechanic came out with my silencer and a new one. both had the same distortion.. then we looked at 5 other tt's in the showroom, all the same. So not much i can do about that i guess. Then they took my bike out for a ride for about 15 minutes and came back saying the vibration was nothing to worry about and if it hasnt gone away by the first service they would strip it down to find out what it was.. That didnt really fill me with confidence and its still there 200 miles later.