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I have a 2011 Street Triple. It went in 1k early for its 24k service (oil, filters, valve check, etc.). It was making some noise that sounded like a bearing just beginning to go bad to me but otherwise ran fine. Dealer did the service. The tech found some degradation in the interior of the fuel line and replaced it, He said the noise was just excessive chain noise and he adjusted the chain. When I picked up the bike it wasn't running right. I got them to look at it again and it turns out there's almost no compression in one cylinder (I think he said 90lbs vs 290lbs).
So the question is, what do I do with it now?
I'm not Kenn, so there was no talk of giving me a new bike .
Seems like the cost of repair at any dealer is probably close to the value of the bike.
I could try doing it myself, but that's well beyond anything I'd normally do myself and without cracking it open, I don't even know how bad it is.
There's a few people running these as track day bikes, I suppose I could sell it as a parts bike or part it out.
It's annoying and this will probably sour me on Triumphs for a while.
But the bike is probably worth around $4500, I have other bikes, and I'm not hard up for money.
Thoughts?
Of course the far bigger pain in the ass is that I was going to use it for the upcoming Tony's days at Thompson this weekend and now I'll have to try to put something street oriented on the KTM and take that. I figured take it in for the service. There's no way they'll take 3 weeks to tell me the bike is blown up.