A bigger engined Daytona, where is it?
 

Good afternoon all.
Why is it that Triumph have not produced a successor to the Daytona 955 model? Is it simply that they've no wish to try and compete with the litre+ Superbikes or, rather unlikely this, that they feel they can't rival the bikes in this market segment?
I'm curious as I reckon a top end sportsbike with the 1050 triple, pushing out around the almost de rigueur 170+ hp, would have found a strong following. Triumph do seem to have more brand kudos than the Japanese manufacturers, if not quite the halo of the Italians so their name on a big-bore Superbike would look on paper to be a sales winner.
Had anyone any interesting insight to offer here?
Ta.

Re: A bigger engined Daytona, where is it?
 

One of their spokespeople said a while back in one of the mags that it wasn't planned.. But then, I think they said the same about the Street Triple. It does seem like a gap in their range, maybe they're not so convinced that there's space in the market for it. The Sprint is quite close to the market the big daytona ended up in, everyday sportsbike...

Re: A bigger engined Daytona, where is it?
 

And they cancelled their big bore supertourer that would bust the 200mph barrier as it was not viable commercially.

Re: A bigger engined Daytona, where is it?
 

There's definitely a gap in their range there. I suspect that they've been waiting to see how the Daytona 675 did. That's proved that they are able to produce a bike that's every bit as good (or better) than anything in its class. I think that we will see another big Daytona again sometime, perhaps even by next summer.

Re: A bigger engined Daytona, where is it?
 

There was a spyshot of a 1700-ish CC parallel twin based cruiser in MCN this week, so thats probably what they've been up to most recently.

After that, who knows what they're going to pull out of the hat...

Re: A bigger engined Daytona, where is it?
 

one of the main stumbling blocks is the fact the basic T5 engine even after development can't make the power in a reliable package, not sure but I seem to remember about 160 at the crank was all they could get.

Limited development budget and the expected cost of a new engine were one of the things ditched following the major fire at the factory a few years ago.

Cheers Mark.

Re: A bigger engined Daytona, where is it?
 

That parallel twin cruiser has been rumoured for a couple of years now. I think that it's aimed at the American market, as 1600cc cruisers aren't exactly popular over here. If so, then i's probably going to be as ugly as sin.