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Retrittion
Posted on Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 12:53 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

...does this bike look familiar?

http://www.triumph.co.uk/usa/Street%20Triple_5353. aspx

I am pretty sure the XB*S came before the egg here but I could be wrong. Interesting none the less.
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Pwnzor
Posted on Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 08:57 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

That bike has been around for a long time...

Personally I think it's kind of fugly.
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Aeholton
Posted on Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 09:28 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Love the look of the Speed Triple and Baby Speed. Especially like the roulette green color. Only thing that bike needs is an underframe shorty exhaust.
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Wolfridgerider
Posted on Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 05:45 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

That bike has been around for a long time...


Look closer, thats the new "Street Triple"
Part Daytona, part Speed Triple, all ugly
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Bebop
Posted on Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 06:22 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Hmm... the only similarity I see between that and an XBS is.... they are both streetfighter bikes. If you're commenting on the twin headlights, that is a signature of the Triumph Speed Triple since it's birth in 1994. It was one of the first, if not the first, streetfighter bikes.

I've always like the Speed Triple. The Street Triple looks just as good as it's big brother, but that ugly cancerous growth over the headlights would have to go.

Much better.
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Mrh
Posted on Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 06:44 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

The 1997 T509 Speed Triple was the first year to sport the familiar dual headlights, the original had only a large single headlight. If I was about 6-10" shorter I'd have bought the Street Triple over my Uly.
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Bebop
Posted on Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 06:56 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I stand corrected.
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Brumbear
Posted on Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 07:59 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

The street triple has a non adjustable front suspension which I don't understand other than that I don't hate it but I have never ridden one I really like the speed triple but its to tall for me and doesn't handle nearly as well as even my SS
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Jwhite601
Posted on Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 10:01 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Looks like a Honda to me

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Cycleaddict
Posted on Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 10:17 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

what .......... a Honda ?? what planet are you from ?! the 1050 "trump" has one of the best motors in all of motorcycledom !!! good low grunt ,killer midrange, and atop end that will make your teeth bleed !!
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Xl1200r
Posted on Friday, February 01, 2008 - 08:45 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

but that ugly cancerous growth over the headlights would have to go

Lucky for you it's a factory accessory and not standard on the bike ;)
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Just_john
Posted on Friday, February 01, 2008 - 08:52 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

The Street Triple is £2000.00 ($4000.00) less than an XB12, makes more power and I fit on it very nicely! Yes I'm considering one, but probably won't let the City X go.
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Sgthigg
Posted on Friday, February 01, 2008 - 09:34 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Speed triple.

The first real bike I ever rode.

I still to this day dont know what in the hell my friend was thinking, letting me take his brand new speed triple out, with no experience.

Ever since I have been hooked
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Retrittion
Posted on Friday, February 01, 2008 - 02:50 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I will stick with my 12R -- though I would own a 675 as a more dedicated track bike. I like Triumphs, but I like Buells more. A classic cafe racer would be cool too.
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