Triumph Street Triple 765 Review
Big-bike grunt and power. Still every bit a Street #motorbikes #triumph
BARCELONA’S a fashionable, modern city, with a stack of heritage behind it, a booming economy – and a MotoGP circuit out the back.
Where better, then, for Triumph to launch its new 765 Street Triple? A bike (and a company) with impressive history, which is sailing high in the sales charts – and has a MotoGP link lingering about in the background...
We're here for a lightning day out with Triumph's new naked sporty-roadster. Half a day on the Catalan mountain roads behind Barca, then a half-day supersaver trackday ticket for Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. And we're riding the top-spec RS version of the 2017 Street Triple: the new 765cc, high-tech triple that aims to redefine the class – using an engine that's set to power the next generation of Moto2 race bikes after 2018.
Triumph's clearly proud of its new baby, and on paper at least, that looks pretty well-founded. A super-grunty new lump, ride-by-wire fuel injection, updated frame and swingarm, top-spec chassis jewellery and a slew of electronic aids – all present and correct, and ready to build on the base of an already strong bike. Legend has it that Triumph boss John Bloor's (possibly apocryphal) design brief for the last big Speed Triple update was "Don't f*** it up." They didn't with the Speed – have they with the Street?
It's hard to tell at first. We set out from the hotel on a cool, damp, eight-degree Spanish morning. There's mist draped over the hills, the roads are slick with moisture and the odd muddy trail from a dirt track entrance. That wouldn't have been such a problem if we hadn't been riding the RS, with its flash Pirelli Supercorsa SP tyres. A fabulous rubber option on a hot dry trackday – but they're not working well this morning, and we'd have been better off with a more road-biased tyre.
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