this is no ordinary triumph speedmaster this is a special edition the gold line
triumph speedmaster and in this video i'm going to tell you about my favorite triumph
this spike is twelve thousand nine hundred and ninety five pounds on the road in the uk
check your triumph website in your country for local prices um we reviewed this bike last year
and it became my favorite triumph straight away uh so watch that video after you've watched this
one we go into a great deal of specs in that uh more than we're going to go into in this video but
we are going to give you the essence of the bike still and that's what we always try to do because
a lot of time you can't ride the bike you can't go and test ride it i want to give you the impression
of what it's like as a rider to ride the bike but the one thing i must say is how stunningly
gorgeous this motorcycle is from any angle it is absolutely beautiful it is drop dead gorgeous i
can tell you the paintwork on this special edition you've got this beautifully sparkly silver paint
and you've got the stripes in the middle and the gold lines all hand painted says gold line
in writing there and you've got this lovely sort of insert here the whole bike is beautiful it's
aesthetically perfect it's a wonderful looking machine so we'll go into a bit more detail now
if you've ever had puppies you'll know that you can't get anything done i spent all day trying
to film this bike and um i've given up waiting for her to go to sleep so just started with the puppy
they keep escaping and it's terrible trying to save its life the whole time
now one thing i wanted to do today was get out on the motorway and crunch some miles and i can
tell you this bike will cruise along at 70 very easily and there's plenty plenty left
on tap to accelerate if you need to um it is comfortable you've got a very soft seat you've
got your feet forward position there with the forward controls and it has a little bracket at
the front there where the pegs are attached to and they're beautiful looking pegs and so the
rear passenger pegs and you've got these little bars extending to where the brake lever and clutch
lever go into the engine and the casing same as any bike before controls really uh
and it is really comfortable i'm six foot two and the riding position is very comfortable but
i do look big on it i must say i do off the bike so realistically this is a bike for anyone
under six foot and i'd say you'd be in the perfect height range i mean
as i said the riding position is really nice i just do look big on it don't i so if that bothers
you if you want a bike and you're over six foot it might be a little small um as i said underneath
that no problem whatsoever now just to show you uh size-wise here is the mrs and she is five foot ten
or thereabouts and just put your foot a little bit further forwards just a little bit further back
about there and that's do you know what you are the perfect size for that bike
it looks good so if you're 5 foot 10 you're you're made so go down to your dealership right now
you've got a 1200cc parallel twin engine and i must say these exhaust pipes come out
very nicely and they're very tight in towards the bike so it doesn't stick out
so as you look from behind it's not sort of sticking out like that so i like that that's
really good and for a standard pipe they do sound very nice so realistically you could probably live
with it and not bother to change them but a lot of people do i know 76.9 brake horsepower at 6100 rpm
and 106 newton meters of torque at 4 000 rpm and that's more than enough in the real world
for any sort of riding honestly it is um there's obviously a lot of people like sports bikes and
they want to go as fast as humanly possible what's the point honestly what is the point
a bike like this you can get out on the open road and travel many miles if you went to
your destination somewhere like the roads here in wales or the west country in devon
and you were exploring the area this is the bike to be honest lovely it really is comfortable it
looks amazing wherever you turn up people stop and look and talk to you about it it's
fabulous so it's a great bike to own and it's a great bike to ride in all different situations
if you watch our channel regularly you'll know i'm very much into the art and the
aesthetics and the design of motorcycles and this definitely ticks that box doesn't it loki
as you look out across the handlebars you have this beautiful center analog speedometer
analog is so much better than digital it honestly is and i don't like these offset things and i
certainly don't like these tft things that many bikes have these days we don't need
that it's nice and simple it's beautifully made so your view framed by the motorcycle
is beautiful and artistic and that's important i don't look at plastic
and screens when i'm riding along i want to look at the view framed by a beautiful thing and the
mirrors are brilliant they're wide you can see all of the road most bikes i can see some of
the road maybe none of it these are great um the quality of the parts all over is fabulous you've
got two modes road and rain that's it that's all you need and that is great very simple on the left
here you've got the lights your button there to scroll through the different things on the little
tiny digital display underneath which is all you need indicators horn cruise control which is great
and on the right you've got your starter and you've got your mode button i think the mode
button would be better on the left and you've got your hazard and that's it nice and simple
the levers adjust you push them out turn the dial get the reach that you want and that's fabulous
and on the back you've got this rail which is really nice to have i'd keep that there
and the seat passenger seat the rail is useful for holding on to for maneuvering the bike for
strapping things too if you're going somewhere so it's well thought out and i think as it is
it's pretty darn good the brakes good you've got double discs brembos at the front
conventional suspension conventional right way up forks much better in my opinion than upside
down nobody needs upside down forks unless it's a competition bike the difference it gives you on
lap times is is tenths on the road don't need it and it's ugly so this is nice i like that
you've got the radiator there which you have to have because it's water cooled one thing
that you do get on the bonnevilles is mud on the bike so it would be better if the
mud guard or the fender sort of extended down lower i think that would be a big improvement
that's kind of really my only criticism of the bike because everything else is great
with the short compact wheelbase the steep rake the short trail
you do get like with all triumphs of direct sharp steering yet at the same time it does feel quite
stable so at 70 miles an hour on the motorway of course i never go one mile an hour above 70 ever
um it feels very stable so it's it's got the best of both worlds um is it a cruiser though
is putting forward controls on a street bike enough to make it a cruiser
i don't think it is a cruiser it's a road bike it's a street bike
like all the other bonnevilles it just happens to have four controls and
different handlebars i think what makes a cruiser really is a longer meatier bike
lower revs where the torque comes in my talk at 2000 rpm on the bmw 18 is 150 newton meters i
mean at 2 000. at 2 000 if you open the throttle on this it doesn't have that grunt but saying that
not much in the world does um once you sort of build the revs uh above two and a half three
thousand this is a fast bike it really is you open the throttle and it really does go it's very fast
and plenty fast enough as i said before and it's very enjoyable so if you were after this bike um
what do you think let us know is it a young man's bike is it a middle-aged man's bike is it
is it an older age bike or lady whatever doesn't matter um let me know because i'm interested to
know what sort of age group would want to ride a bike like this i love it and of course i'm young
um darcy loves the look of it and he's even younger than me so between us we think it's
a great bike um most modern bikes especially for younger people are covered in plastic and
pointy designs like they've been desired on a computer but no one's ever looked at it
this doesn't have that problem um i just noticed this little ridge in the front uh mud guard there
looks really nice like an old policeman's helmet that's really nice and same in the back there
yeah so let us know what you think about this bike and whether you're considering buying one
or whether you have bought one especially the gold line special edition
so there we have it folks the triumph speedmaster gold line special edition my favorite triumph