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Triumph Torque and Triumphrat have both given me the boot because I dare to say that Triumph may be liable for producing defective crankshafts. My basis for this?
Do some Googling for broken or shattered crankshafts and see what you find.
Not to mention that a former service director personally wrote me and said the factory told him some of them were not heat-treated properly. So that's obviously hearsay but it is enough for a Court to order production of documents in the discovery phase, you can't get any better than that going into a lawsuit unless you have a smoking gun like an internal memorandum in hand from a mole, right. So I am going to sue for failure to recall and I don't give a damn that my bike is a 2002, we will see where it ends up.
http://www.wepapers.com/Papers/13402...heat_treatment
Now the rub comes in because others have agreed with me before my crankshaft shattered yet none of these people got booted, and many of these people have admitted they hate lawyers even though I don't practice anymore and am one of the most anti-lawyer guys you will find. I just got the degree for the knowledge and to help little people.
So they say good riddance to bad rubbish and I say the same, but jeezlouise how protective of a marque and how ridiculous. I have plenty of GOOD THINGS to say about Triumph as well but they ignore all of that, what a bunch of twits. This is the better video:
YouTube - Triumph Sprint ST Shattered Crank failure