"Ian Molton" wrote in message
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On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:24:41 +0000 (UTC)
Stewart Pinkerton wrote:

I like to keep the little people amused. I don't suppose you ride a
Triumph motorbike by any chance?

Nope. Werent they the ones that made aluminium castings so shoddy that
oil actually seeped THROUGH them ?


Nuffink shoddy about Triumph castings me old sunshine - eau cointreau, they
were very good an polished up like good 'uns. Oil seepage from the *joints*
(rather than the alloy as your post suggests) was never as bad as it sounds
or legend would have it. In any case, a few drops of oil here and there were
absolutely f*ck all compared to the tit-tingling thrill of frashing one of
those beauties up the (pre-dual carriageway) A1 I can tell you!

Last I heard, Triumph was very much on the up again and yet another example
of a company weathering ill fortune and hard times. (Ya really gotta try and
see the bigger picture....!!)

In fact, the last bike I had that persisted in dripping oil on my right boot
(despite my efforts to stop it) was a venerable BMW R75 boxer - a bike known
for its 'quality engineering'. The reason Jap bikes didn't drip oil in those
days is because they twigged that splitting the crankcase horizontally would
a) prevent oil drips and b) allow them to pull a few cheap (but effective)
tricks with main bearings!

Again I say, you can only speak as you find.....