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I am with the camp that says the new ST is not where I will be going in the future. I specifically dislike the faceted look on many bikes and cars and wonder why Triumph felt they had to adopt the UJM look. As someone else said, I can't tell many bikes apart as they all have these pointy/facet type design cues.
The 04 and down sprint doesn't look like any other bike, and in these parts no one has even seen an ST. The 05 ST looks like many UJMs and defeats one of the reasons I bought an ST and that is that it didn''t lookk like a faceted crotch rocket.
Maybe I'm getting old, but I like it the way it was.
Of all the things they could have changed on the bike, I don;t think looks should have been on the top of the list. Adding more power seems to be mostly marketing hype... I say this because the ST didn;t need more power... it already runs like rocket.... more braking power is always good... the new bags had better be a huge improvement over the old... and one complaint echoed in many forums and reviews was the riding ergos and they didn;t address this at all.. so.. to me, the '05 was a marketing upgrade more than a complete over haul...
Again, I am perplexed as to why T decided to become yet another look alike bike..... sales will tell.... if they increase sales over previous years numbers, that will tell the tale and what I think won;t matter a tinkers *****.....
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