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the wires are all black...all of them. According to datatool the alarm is designed to be very difficult to remove, that's the whole point of it.

in the UK yes.... unfortunately in rural France, not so easy. but I'm looking. the problem is finding someone competent and willing to do it. Most of the competent guys work for a garage who won't touch bikes or for a dealer who won't touch another make. Independat, competent AND not a multi hour ride from me....

i've read that too, unfortunately mine doesn't seem to have that piece of equippement. I have maild the dealer in Dijon with a request for a solution. I intend to get back to datatool on tuesday and ask them for a solution ( their techniciens have always been very good on the phone). If none of that brings a satisfactory solution I will have to try The triumph dealers in Paris and contact Triumph France, with a translated copy to Triumph head office requesting a solution. we'll see what Dijon propose, but I imagine it will be to replace the entire wiring harness, which I clearly cannot afford to do.

oh I am soooo fucked! I'm not good with electrics at the best of times but this is all soo far beyond me.

this is ahy you should always read books in their original language if possible, translation ALWAYS has to balance between translating the sense of a word given the context, or the litteral translation.

funnily enough, french is a less rich language than english ( for example) English has 4 majour roots: Latin, Nordic, germanic and anglosaxon wheras French has only One Majour root in Latin and a number of much more minor roots in the various celtic languages and the Langue D'Oc. Which is why the average englishman has a much larger vovabulary than his french counterpart. The english often have 3 or 4 words with the same ( or very near) meaning, wheras the French will have one word with a number of different meanings. Or so It was once explained to me...

yeah but, no but, yeah but... The French use "Feu" to mean light as well as fire. The rear light on a car for example is a " Feu arriere" spot lights are " Feux longue portée" and so on and so forth so "feu" can be translated as fire, or light, as in the case of " couvre feu".

NOT happy... ( now there's a surprise!) following from an earlier post somewhere where my bike's bloody alrm screwed me AGAIN, I contacted the maker DATATOOL ( scorpion automotive) in the uk who basically said it's dead, remove it. Order the triumph plug,. he gave me the part number. This corresponds to the vid of alarm removal from a 1200 that Buck found for me and also corresponds to everything I've read online about these alarms including asking the question on 2 bike specific forums. So, I ordered the plug ( about 40€) and looked for the alarm location on the bike... Not where that video suggested but up under the tail piece just forward of the tail light. once I accessed it I see that it is NOT connectec via the famous plug but the wires dissapear into the bikes wiring harness around the battery. This means I can't ride it cos the risk of it shutting down the bike whilst riding is (apparently) very real and I can't repair it or remove the alarm either as this would mean having to strip the bike completely and trace every single wire from the alarm to it's terminal, remove it and remake the wiring harness. I obviously can't afford to pay someone else to do it either. I'm open to suggestions if anyone has any ideas. I will be ringing Datatool probably tuesday to see if they can suggest a solution but beyond that...

I was going to say the XT lasted maybe longer...

8 months... 'bout the longest you've kept a bike isn't it?

me too

depends on context. But the word curfew, does, technically, literally mean "Lights out".

Curfew, the english word, comes from the english mispronunciation of the french " Couvre Feu" literally "Lights out". As a child at boarding school, each year group had a different "lights out" time when they are required to be in bed by, later as you get older and only theoretical in the last 2 years.

Hey I just realised, we'll be allowed to stay uo til 11pm from next week... currently lights out is 9pm. Gosh its just like being back at school!

it.s called poliics Pete and means that if it's "politics" then its ok to lie and cheat and juat make stuff up.

Hi Dion, welcome in

we said "taking a nap" not doing bloody Yoga!

blooy amateur!

good point, I was thinking of Bob

oh come on Pedro... not in the uk... not 30

like that you mean.

Feck, nearly 1€60 in most places here now

on the news here this morning, a number of french youtube "influencers" have been approached or cantacted by an organisation proposing to pay them significant sums of money in order to put out videos suggesting that more people have died from the Pfizer vaccine than from Astra Zeneca. The youtubers in question ( or at least a couple of them) reported this to the police when the contact insisted that they must not mention the fact that the video was sponsored and the sponsor wished to remain anonymous... the contacts have been traced to a russian ad agency. I have absolutely no way, of course, of knowing wether any of this is any more true than the continual stream of mindless unfounded and unsubstantiated drivel that is available on social media. The only difference being that this was reported on France Info which is usually fairly reliable ( ie it's not BFM TV or Fox News for example)