this is the triumph thruxton rs and it's the fastest most powerful sharpest handling triumph
in the modern classic lineup and in this video we're going to give it a full and thorough review
now as with everything you look at motorcycles included you look at the pictures of the
motorcycle and you read the specs and you sort of make up your mind what that motorbike might
be like now this motorcycle is uh no exception uh looking at it on the specs it's got a very
short wheelbase of 1415 millimeters a very steep rake so that's the steepness of the forks they're
22.8 degrees and the trail is only 92 millimeters so before i got on this bike i thought
it's bound to be twitchy and it's bound to be a little bit unstable but after riding it 200 meters
that isn't the case at all and i really don't know how triumph have managed it but
this is a very sharp handling bike but not in the least bit twitchy so it's a very nice bike
to ride and it takes the corners beautifully now triumph themselves say this bike's got
all the hallmarks of the original cafe racer but with more power better handling and a contemporary
style and i definitely agree with that statement this bike is fantastic it's got more power it's
got great handling and the styling is fantastic you look at this bike and you just go wow that is
a really really pretty bike so the thruxton rs is the sort of bike that you can really take
by the scruff of the neck and throw it through the corners and it will grip and it's fantastic
you can get your knee down on a bike like this unfortunately it's been a bit wet
this week we've just had a thaw from the snow so we've had to take it a little bit easy but
it's saying that you can still take it around the corners pretty briskly so it's it's such a sharp
handling buy but in a very good way so triumphs have got this right in terms of its geometry for
cornering it's spot on so before we carry on with the video we'd really appreciate if you leave us
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this 1200cc bonneville engine produces 103 brake horsepower or 105 ps which peaks at
seven and a half thousand rpm and 112 newton meters of torque which peaks at 4250 rpm
but it feels so powerful and accelerates blindingly fast this really is a quick
motorcycle and when you accelerate it's got a lovely deep tone to it it sounds fantastic
it pulls like nothing else i mean it really is fast it feels just as fast as the rocket three
so if you want a blindingly quick motorcycle that handles very sharply
you really can't go wrong with this got brembo brakes on this bike you've got double discs on the
front and as you'd expect these are really really good brakes the stopping power is incredible
you've got olin piggyback shocks on the rear which are fully adjustable and you've got shower
suspension forks on the front these are fully adjustable as well and they've done them in this
yellowy gold color which everyone seems to do at the moment i think
they look better in silver but that's just nitpicking now we've found the gear change
on this and all the bonneville engines to be very good indeed it goes up and down the
gearbox nicely and smoothly and without any problems at all nice light clutch feel there
so you've got a seat height of 810 millimeters on this bike now i'm between six foot one and
six foot two and you can gauge by looking at me how big this bike is
it's not majorly big so i think for someone between five foot six and five foot ten this bike
will feel perfect for you now if you're above that height it's still perfectly easy to ride
it just might look a bit small to other people but it does feel a little bit on the small side
now the one thing i did say about this bike is it's small
it's by no means a big motorcycle and i'm six foot three and this is the riding position for me
yet the distance from my seat to my hands is quite long my legs are obviously nice and bent for the
riding position that you would need on a sports bike but it feels fine on top of it i feel like
you're sitting on top of something rather than in the motorcycle um you can get your chest down
no problem at all get out of the wind a little bit so it's a good riding position um it feels bigger
than it looks now the thruxton rs comes with the race derived metzeler race tech rr tires they're
17 inches on the front and the rear they've not got a lot of tread on them they're almost slicks
they're really really grippy in the dry and you want to be a little bit careful in the
wet because obviously you've not got a lot of tread but these tyres are absolutely superb
as with all the bonnevilles you have a tubular steel cradle chassis um the radiators at the
front obviously and it does get a lot of muck into it with such a small mud guard so
most people will probably only ride a bike like this in the fine weather anyway you've got 120
millimeter travel on the suspension you've got the upside down forks at the front and the twin shock
piggybacks at the rear and as darcy said it it absorbs the bumps very well we do have some
terrible roads in england and it handles handles them very well but the road holding is phenomenal
so if you're really thrashing this bike and you've got some decent roads it grips the roads very well
indeed now you've got plenty of room to move about on this seat and when you're accelerating you can
get your bum right back to the edge of the seat and you're not worried about flying off and the
seats are also very grippy which is inspires a lot of confidence so the 1200cc bonneville engine
that's in the thruxton rs is a little bit more advanced than the rest of the bonneville engines
you've got a low inertia lightweight crank balance shafts and a clutch you've also got magnesium cam
covers and you've got thin walled engine covers and all of this including the higher compression
pistons produces 20 percent less inertia which obviously means that the engine will rev freer
everything on this thruxton rs looks such good quality i love these rims they're very beautiful
and this triple clamp here with this lovely thick metal looks amazing and you've got the twin dials
at the front you've got analog speedometer and a rev counter now interestingly i was riding
um along a sort of dual carriageway an open road coming into a village and somebody flashed me to
say something and usually there's a warning as i came into the village there was a speed
speed camera from the police uh i wasn't going fast at the time which is fine obviously i
don't go very fast i keep the speed limits um but looking at the speedometer i got it to 30
and i thought well fine everything's fine and it wasn't until i got a few miles outside the village
when i realized that actually i was looking at 30 on the rev counter so the rev counter goes up 10
20 30 40 50 60 and so on obviously 30 is 3000 rpm so at first glance that looks like the speedometer
so it would be better if it just said one two three four five six and then you can put the
three naughts on the end yourself so obviously if you're used to the bike you wouldn't do that but
when you jump on a different bikes all the time as we do that looked like the speedometer so
hopefully i haven't got a speeding ticket now like all triumphs you've got a usb port under the seat
um we think it'd be better if it was somewhere up here along the headstock
and then you could plug in your phone or sat nav very easily without having to fiddle about
but at least you've got the usb port these bar end mirrors are very good the rearward visibility
is about 70 percent of the road for me if you're a bit shorter not quite so wide you'd probably
see all of the road behind you it's much better than when the mirrors are mounted further in
so i was quite impressed with that so normally we don't like modes on bikes but it's very good
and simple on this bike you've got three different modes road rain and sport and it's easy to change
them on the left handlebar as a mode button and the mode won't change until you pull the clutch in
but the difference between the modes is very good it's good to have a rain mode because obviously if
it's raining with this amount of power you don't want to uh be slipping around with all that power
and sport mode in particular is absolutely crazy so the old man will go into a little
bit more detail about sport mode now another nice thing about this bike it's all quite
simple you've just got your starter switch here and your hazard this side and on the other side
you've got your lights your mode your information button your indicators and your horn and that's it
that's all you need i mean it's a motorcycle you don't want to spend time i don't anyway looking
at screens and scrolling through things and going through different menus and changing settings um
just get on and ride and surely as i said with the three modes it's more than enough and you could
just press the button and go and you don't have to spend 20 minutes changing something i'm sure
um so i don't know what you think about that let us know but um we're not fans of modes as we've
said many times but on this they're good because you need the rain mode to sort of dumb down
all that power when it's slippery which is great the road mode for everyday use is fine
in sport mode this bike absolutely flies and it's fun to ride so it's probably better to keep
it in sport as much as you can so that you're used to that way because it's better to come
down than up and the only problem with the mode could also be that if you forget
you're in sport and you think you're in rain and you open it up to go up somewhere
and you think i didn't realize that i was in sport and the road's very wet so you just have
to be a little bit careful of that and make sure you check which mode you're in before you set off
the exhaust has a nice tone to it uh it's not mega loud and it wouldn't be because it has to meet
all the regulations but obviously you can swap that out and get
a more racy pipe which would sound much nicer and much louder if you wanted to
so the thruxton rs starts at 13 000 pounds in jet black which is what we've got here
and there's another color option which is matte storm gray and silver ice which is 13 350 pounds
so obviously you're paying 350 extra i think it looks better in jet black and of course there's
other options and stuff which would make the bike a little bit more expensive now darcy wasn't
so keen on the gold anodised forks uh with the matching sort of piggybacks here i actually quite
like it on this bike i think it sort of gives it a little hint of color against the black and
the sort of silver or silver and chromie type of metals but i get his point i mean usually we don't
particularly like the gold anodised forks because you see them on pretty much everything these days
so silver ones might look better but yeah in this case i think they look nice as with all our
reviews we give you the main specs on the bike and really concentrate more on the feel of the
bike and how it goes accelerates handles etcetera you can read all the specs on triumph's website
it's very comprehensive so there's no point in us rattling off a ton of figures and boring you to
death it's best to sort of study those things yourself um but as i said we've given you the
sort of the information that you need to know what this bike actually feels like to ride and what it
sounds like etc so that's the important thing from a review so hopefully you've got that out of it
at higher rpms you do feel a very small amount of vibration but it's nothing to get worried
about so if you're looking for a blindingly fast sharp handling motorcycle with a retro look look
no further because this is a very good motorcycle indeed um personally i would rather ride this than
some of the modern looking bikes um it's much more stylish um but each to his own you know we
all have different tastes um so yeah if you want a bike like this you will not be disappointed
whatsoever now if you already follow our channel you'll know that we review all sorts of motorbikes
and don't forget to sort of go to our videos tab and scroll down and you'll see all the reviews
we've done but if you're a triumph fan the next bike that we're test riding is the triumph t120
so that looks beautiful we're looking forward to riding that one so thanks for watching the video
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