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). 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!

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.

[yorkie_chris]

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.

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

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.

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.

[yorkie_chris]

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

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

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

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!

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

[northwind]

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

Originally Posted by northwind

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

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

[northwind]

Damn you, time!