Street Triple Sold Out for the Year?

[donidonuts]

do dealers know for sure what and when they are getting after they place their orders? my dealer ordered a few but their attitude has been that the bikes may be delivered at any time or not at all... really odd. they are supposed to get one more, but whether it actually comes and when is anyone's guess. i dont see how you can run a business when your inventory is so up in the air. and i have a feeling its a triumph thing. like one of the posts above, triumph may or is pulling out on north american orders to satisfy their euro demand.

[Diego]

Nonsense. We've heard that "conspiracy theory" before in this board, and its exact opposite counterpart from UK members.

The fact is, Triumph had no interest in making lots of this model in its first year. They set a number they felt they could produce, and that was that. Pre-orders during the priority reservation program last summer took priority over dealer orders, and there were a lot of priority orders! A dealer who orders any Triumph outside the factory's ordering "windows" takes their chances with uncertainty, but especially on a model like this that's well over its scheduled run. It's no fun for dealers who know they could sell more, I'm sure; but it's not hurting Triumph. Unlike many other makers, they have no excess production capacity, and do not choose to go into debt during an uncertain market period to acquire what might very well turn out to be excess capacity before they've recouped their costs.

[merlot]

I had a $500 deposit on a black streety that I recently took back. Four month wait, no certainty when the dealer would get one, plus recent financial obligations forced me to get my money back. I'll have my eye out for a '09 or '10 model year. Hopefully they'll be more plentiful by that time!

[The Wild Wong]

Last week woke up decided I wanted a Street Triple called a dealer in Colorado (I live in Montana) and she'll be here next week. I had no idea they were such a pain to get. What if anyone knows was the number of Striples imported this year 08 and how many possibly in 09.

[Diego]

Triumph seldom release specific numbers. They did announce last year that only 400-some would be released to US dealers, and that would be secondary to the priority program pre-orders. All in all, there are indications they only planned to make somewhere between two and three thousand, total, for the entire world...though I think they ended up making more, somewhat grudgingly, because the pre-orders well exceeded that number.

There is no authoritative word yet on how many are scheduled for 2009.

[drlapo]

my son bought a black 08 of the showroom floor this week for $8299 + $400 freight at Performance Cycles in Shrewsbury MA

[Diego]

Thanks to all who have posted locations of currently available new specimens, gents, but we have a thread specifically for that purpose in the stickies.

Since there have been a few such posts that I've had to move there recently... and since this whole thread's origins were shrouded in confusion from the beginning anyway... this seems like a good time to close it.