Triumphrat

StaggerLee · 08-09-2007

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Originally Posted by trashman

To me it looks like they took a picture of an America and one of a Rocket and put the different pieces together. That being the case , I wonder how accurate that picture is.

I agree, it looks like a photoshop job to me.

2005SM · 08-09-2007

Pictures are pretty poor so I will wait until it comes out before I comment. I have been holding off purchasing a new, larger displacement bike, until Triumph release their larger cruiser. If I don't like it I might even venture out of cruisers altogether and purchase a Sport Tourer (Triumph ST or BMW).

BellaCorse · 08-09-2007

Inverted fork, shaft drive... looks like they're hunting Jap mega crusiers to me.

I like it! Hey factory: give me one to customize.

dazco · 08-09-2007

Ok, i couldn't keep quiet on this subject. I can think of several reasons it doesn't seem to be a PS job. The quality is so bad that i can't be 100% sure on all the points even when zoomed in because it's pixelated and blocky to a very bad degree when zoomed. But heres what i noticed.

1)-Cooling fins are there on the head which i would think are a no brainer......people who like this type of bike don't want a non traditional look. Witness the said faux carbs that are supposedly going to be on the mid to late '08 900 cruisers. But now look at the cylinders. I don't see fins there. thats would speak to the bike being water cooled and not a america engine photoshopped into a rocket.

2)-i looked at pics of my bike at the same angle as the 1500 pic and the cheese graters and carbs are WAYYYY out in plain view. On the 1500 pic you cant see any carb, real or faux, and nthe cheese grater is way inwards by comparison. this would seem to imply the engine is much wider than the 900. Or even if not, why no carb/faux carb in plain veiw.

3)-looks like shaft on the right side. On the rocket the disc is on that side

4)-why would the photoshopper bother changing the headlights? If it's a rocket front end anyways, changing the lights isn't going to make anyone NOT consider the fact it looks like the rockets front end.

5)-rear rocket fender isn't flat ended like the speedmaster\america.....it's pointed. The pics seems to show a flat eand

6)-rear tire looks smaller than the rocket

7)-lastly, the pic is from MCN's august edition cover and was found at a MCN site address. So it's not like someone photoshopped it and then uploaded it to his storage server as a joke. So it actually IS from the august MCN cover. Would they actually fake a pic like that? I would think not considering it would be legal suicide if triumph saw it.

That said, i still question it. But while i'm not crazy about the water and would worry about initial design bugs, i will likely be one of the first adopters when it arrives if it does indeed look like the pic, tho hopefully like the 900 cruisers there will be a black engine speedy-like version too. Anyways, those are just some thoughts i felt should be considered. talk amongst yourselves....i'm verklempt.

ssjones · 08-09-2007

That doesn't look like a real picture to me. Photo shopped by MCN? (artist rendering or the like?

ssjones · 08-09-2007

Well, looks like I screwed up the screen sizing....

If that is a real picture, I'm mildly interested. With a black radiator shroud vs. chrome, might not look half bad.

My bet is that is no real picture, looks too much like our upright twin motors to me.

dazco · 08-09-2007

I doubt it. think about it for a second. If they put a fake cruiser on the cover of thier magazine saying heres the new triumph 1500, don't you think that would be suicide? I can't imagine a scenario where triumph would be happy that the mag put a fake pic up of thier soon to be released cruiser. the national enqurer used to get sued by idividuals continuously. Imagine coing up against a huge corp like Triumph. They'd lose the farm. Naa.......i really can't imagine the mag doing that. So mthat leaves only one scenario....thats a pic of the real deal. I feel the same as you tho.....doesn't seem real and my gut feeling says no. But all logic seems to point to it being real IMO.

Imagine if road and track mocked up a fake ford and put it on thier cover saying this is the soon to be released Ford whatever. Seems a lot more obvious that it would be a insanely foolish move when looking at it from the perspective of a much more mainstream mag and company like Ford. But yeah, all that and i still have a hard time believing it ! who knows. We should find out soon enough tho because things are starting to come forward fast and furious lately.

Silverado57 · 08-09-2007

So... some grainy "action" pics on the inside but a detailed pic on the cover? Weird.

If this thing doesn't show up in a few weeks, someone's going to have egg on their face..

Daz, good to see you back!

Odysseus · 08-10-2007

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Originally Posted by dazco

I doubt it. think about it for a second. If they put a fake cruiser on the cover of thier magazine saying heres the new triumph 1500, don't you think that would be suicide? I can't imagine a scenario where triumph would be happy that the mag put a fake pic up of thier soon to be released cruiser. the national enqurer used to get sued by idividuals continuously. Imagine coing up against a huge corp like Triumph. They'd lose the farm. Naa.......i really can't imagine the mag doing that.

Europe doesn't have the litigation culture of the US (yet - although it's creeping in). What you say may be perfectly true Daz - we'll only know when the bike is officially released - but magazines over here regularly publish photoshoped images of what they think a new bike or car will look like, and they don't always inform their readers that they are "artist's impressions". Journalists are not exactly renowned for their honesty, and MCN has a bit of a tabloid gossip sheet reputation over here. But for all that, it could well be a genuine shot of the real thing. We'll see...

Normandy · 08-10-2007

As long as it has that big, ugly rad up front, they can keep it.