Street Triple Test Ride thoughts.
 

Well I test rode the Street Triple this morning and these are my thoughts:

It's small! Makes my Hornet look really long and big (ooer)! Lovely and compact little machine and very smart looking. I do love nakeds though.

Suspension is very, very capable and makes my Hornet feel like a pregnant whale (well after 22'000 miles it has gone a bit soft). Tips in so easily and can really handle a LOT of corner speed without so much as a wobble. Flicking from one direction to another is incredibly quick, so quick that I almost was turning direction too early! The seat height was perfect (800mm) making kneedowns really easy as well as peg scraping (sorry Bulldog Triumph):D. The engine is where the real magic is though. Give it a handful and she takes off (quite literally). You can go forwards very quickly or if you pin the throttle the front comes up, considering it's a 675cc machine it's bloody impressive. One thing that I noticed though is at 30mph the fuelling was quite snatchy. Solution; change into third and you still have enough grunt to get going and it smooths out the throttle response. Engine breaking was good, a nice compromise between a Vee twin and IL4. The engine just seems to pull from real low down to the redline, doesn't feel like it flattens out at all. I wasn't too keen on the speedo. The speed is displayed in a small window below the rev counter. This made it a little 'busy' as I was also looking at the revs. Seems an odd decision seeing that the bike has a seperate large LCD display to the left of the rev counter which displays odometer, trip meter and gear indicator. It also has a gear change indicator which is housed within the case of the rev counter. Little blue lights twinkle away when you need to change up, a nice touch.

Overall this bike is sublime as well as being an absolute bargain. Brilliant hooligan tool, commuter or weekend blast bike. Gets my vote!:D

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Nice... I'm sure people will find this useful.

I think at a good price this will kill the SV market... there will still people who buy the SV as its a budget bike. But those that like the SV and want a bit more, like USD's and stuff should really think about it.

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That 675 engine ... lovely lump. Can definately see it's going to be a winner.

SV still wins on price though, and more than likely insurance prices.

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True, but you get what you pay for. The Trumpet is better than SV the in every way and less than a grand more. Bargain.

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There is that, I'm not in a position to buy a new bike, but give it a few years and I could be tempted into a 2nd hand one. If I like it more than the 955i, which I don't yet, but it could grow on me :-P

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Yeah these would be great 2nd hand. I can't see that many of them being around though and they will hold there value extremely well unless the boys at Triumph can up their production rate. I put a deposit on one today.........I've now got to figure out how to tell the wife I've bought another bike! :smt090

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went into my local triumph dealers today to add a bit more money to the money i owe on the ST i have ordered and was told that if yuo ordered now expect delivery in october!!

Oh and they are so popular the RRP is now up 200 quid to 5599

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If there's been a Street Triple when I got the SV, I wouldn't have got the SV ;)

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If there had been a Street Triple when I got the Speed Triple, I probably wouldn't have got the Speed Triple.

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Damn you, time!