Triumphrat

BeastInBlack · 01-30-2008

Put it this way they were correct about the street triple well in advance, just from grainy photos

purplelinny · 01-30-2008

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Originally Posted by BeastInBlack

Put it this way they were correct about the street triple well in advance, just from grainy photos

Stab in the dark enough times and all that

We'll just have to wait and see. I can be humble if I need to, just make sure it's good pastry with a scoop of vanilla

msneedtx · 02-03-2008

This may not be pretty but I suspect Triumph is taking advantage of an opportunity to take declining Harley sales and take some market share. If people talk about it and it gets some market share then that is good for us (more profit into R&D for the bikes we really want).

Someone told me that (worldwide) Triumph is outselling BMW. That is no small feat. I would love it if it were true (validates the brand that I think is elegant and revitalizes the passion for motorcycles that helps us all.

lindsayt · 02-03-2008

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Originally Posted by SaintBernard

By e stamp I was refering to the EPA sound certification stamped on the stock muffler. Denver has become biker unfriendly and updated their city ordinances to allow an officer to ticket you for a muffler with out the EPA stamp.

Doug

Frankly, I don't think it's "biker unfriendly" to start fining people who are found to be knowingly violating a long-standing federal law. Like it or not, loud bikes hurt our reputation, and they *are* an issue. Now, most aftermarket triumph pipes don't really fall into the nuisance category of those obnoxious harley pipes, but annoying aftermarket pipes really are just that.

They *are* biker-unfriendly if they're only enforcing this against bikes though. The annoying rice rockets with their obnoxious badly-tuned, rattly loud-as-hell pipes and/or straight pipes are about the worst.

But *NOTHING* is loud like my two-stroke scooter when the exhaust slipped completely off. With no valves, no piping, no *NOTHING* between the chamber and the outside, and a combustion on *every* revolution, running at about 4500 rpms, at 10 pm on a dark side street off the edge of downtown, I'm sure some people hit the deck thinking a gatling gun had just been opened up. It was *AWESOME*.

Oh and the spy shot bike - ugly as hell, but probably just a test platform for the engine, which nevertheless is also ugly as hell. Don't want it anyway. How about a factory-made 1200cc parallel twin bonnie-derived retro tourer instead? And keep it at 550 lbs dry or less, if possible.