This year I%X92ve been trying to turn myself into a fair weather rider. Honestly, it%X92s not me, it%X92s the bike - I don%X92t mind riding in the wet and have done thousands of miles in the rain over the years. But the Street Triple R really doesn%X92t like the wet. The handling doesn%X92t inspire me to commute the long way on...
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- 24 May 2013
Compared to the previous incarnation, the 2013 Triumph Street Triple R is lighter, smoother, more refined and has the handling and brakes a superbike would be proud of. Best of all, it%X92s 6kg lighter. It%X92s lost some of that in-your-face, foaming-at-the-mouth aggression, which made the original make us all stand up and take notice back in 2007, but it%X92ll be...
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- 16 November 2012
The current Triumph Street Triple, the British firm%X92s best selling machine in the past five years (they%X92ve sold 50,000), weighs just 189kg, full of fuel and ready-to-go, which is bugger-all. This new version, available in dealers in the middle of November is lighter still. Weighing a piffling 183kg it%X92s going to strike fear into its main rival: the 211kg Suzuki GSR750,...
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- 07 November 2012
Triumph%X92s standard Street Triple mixes Triumph Speed Triple style with the tech of a Triumph Daytona 675 engine. It's light, fast, fun, agile, stylish and cool... and it just got even better. The 'R' version comes with fully-adjustable suspension and fiercer radial four-pot Nissin front brakes, making it the perfect bike to tempt UK riders away from their sportsbikes. Triumph have been planning...
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- 18 September 2008
