this is the triumph street twin and in this video we're going to give it a full review and
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100 pounds you've got three different color options you've got red black and iron stone
which this is in iron stone we really like this color it's matte of course and it's kind of like a
grayish brown and you get a little brown tinge to it it's more gray than it is brown but um
it's very nice color and of course with a lot of the triumphs there's lots of optional extras
lots of specs that you can do so it's up to you what you do on that side of things
now the triumph street twin is the most popular of all the modern classics in the triumph bonneville
range and i can see why because it's a nice bike to ride and it looks pretty cool too
it's fairly easy to ride so if it's your first bike after passing your test
you'd be fine with it as long as you take it easy at first because it is quite powerful
and we're going into all the power figures in a minute
so the power figures for this bike produces 65 ps which is 64.1 break horsepower or 47.8 kilowatts
at 7.5 000 rpm or it also produces 80 newton meters of torque at 3800 rpm but this bike
feels more powerful than it might suggest on paper because of how responsive it is and it even feels
more powerful than a bike that on paper is more powerful than this now i must say i really do
like this 900cc bonneville engine it's a beautiful engine it's got plenty of torque it pulls from low
revs you can rev it to the maximum and it really does shift yeah if you want to just burble around
slowly in the country lanes or around the town it's perfectly fine so it does everything and
it does everything really well so like a lot of the other triumph models this has got the usb
port under the seat you just put the key in the side here and then you can pull the seat off like
that and then the usb is there i think the usb would be better off up here maybe on the headstock
so that you could have your phone on the bars as your sat nav and have it plugged in i think
that's going to be a bit of a nuisance having it there as with all these triumphs the gearbox is
very good it's easy to change it goes up and down the gearbox silky smooth no problems whatsoever
so i'm six foot three this is the riding position for me and with the seat being relatively flat you
can move back a little bit if you need to and you can move forward depending on what you're doing
but my legs are quite bent if you can see so the angle of my legs
i would prefer to be about there and as i said triumphs are much
more designed for people under six feet tall obviously i can ride it it's not a problem
but visually the bike probably looks quite small underneath me but there's plenty of reach from my
shoulders to my hands so in this dimension it's okay but it's more short in the other dimensions
so the seat height on this bike is 760 millimeters and again i am six foot
one or two the bike feels a little bit small um but it's perfectly you mean you can ride it at
over six foot it's fine but as um the old man said it's definitely designed for someone who's
under six foot um because you're you are quite cramped up like that but it's it's not too bad
you've got 10 000 miles service intervals on this bike and you can get an a2 license
kit for this to bring it down to the 47 horsepower requirement of the a2 license
we haven't ridden one with that kit on it but i think it wouldn't be too underpowered for the bike
i think it would be able to handle it perfectly well and it'd still be a nice bike to ride
now this has an 18 inch front wheel a 17 inch rear the wheel base is 1415 millimeters the rake is 25
degrees and the trail is 102.4 millimeters all those dimensions combined give you the typical
triumph handling which is very very sharp and it steers ever so quickly and changes direction
ever so easily so as we said in the previous video of the triumph scrambler if you've got
the cruisers at this end you've got the triumphs at that end so your cruisers like your bmw r18
and your harley davidson breakout are your stable um raked breaked out bikes with the
forks like that rather than like that and think of those as your shire horse at the other end of the
scale you've got your tramps and your racing bikes and they're much more faster steering more like a
squirrel it changes direction like that so a lot of people love that sort of handling and if you
like fast steering bikes that you can lay into the corners and fire around it's absolutely perfect
so the street twins got a 900cc liquid called parallel twin with a five-speed gearbox and
you've got your radiator at the front and the mud guards aren't that big so if it's wet and a little
bit muddy like today you find the bike is covered in mud the engine's covered in mud and again with
the rear it's covered in mud but that's one of the things that happens with small mud guards if you
had big mud guards it protect the bike more but it wouldn't look as cool so um that's the sacrifice
most people are willing to make so this has got a 12 liter fuel tank and it does 3.9
liters per 100 kilometers or 72 miles per gallon now those are the official figures
um but up on the display it tells you what your miles began is and we've been getting 67. so
that's not too bad of a drop to be honest um you never get what the companies say that you'll get
it's always best possible conditions but still really good miles per gallon so this bike weighs
198 kilograms and it doesn't feel heavy at all it's quite light easy to maneuver about
but again as i said it's quite small if you're a tall person i know the um foot controls feel
very cramped so if you've got big feet like size 10 size 11 feet um you feel like you're really
sort of tucked up and you haven't got much space now the mirrors uh are quite high and they're sort
of about bar width but me being quite high and bar width means that i can see about half the
road behind me but i'd say if you were shorter than me now these bikes like all triumphs again
are designed more for people five foot seven five or eight from a knife out of ten uh if you're in
that range it's perfect um if you're taller than that you're gonna find that the bars and you
have to do that to sort of see behind you um but from riding all the triumphs it's the same with
every one of them even the rocket three which we reviewed so please check that video out too
worth seeing ergonomically from a rider's riding position they're quite small so i think i don't
know but i think someone tell me if it's true or not i think the test riders that develop the
triumphs must be sort of five foot seven to five foot ten tall because it would help if they put
in someone my height or even taller six foot five or something to balance it out to see how
bigger people fit on the bikes because triumphs are definitely made for people under six feet
so this has got two modes you've got road and you've got rain um a lot of bikes have
numerous modes and we're not normally a fan of modes they're normally um they catch you out so
if you're in normal mode and you're going to sport it's like jumping from a 250 to a 500 and suddenly
it's a different animal and it catches you out but with this bike there's not a huge difference
between the modes obviously you get more traction control in rain but it's very well done so we're a
big fan of the modes on this bike the exhaust sounds quite nice on
this bike it's a standard exhaust it's got a good tone it does sound like a nice bike
i think if you had an aftermarket exhaust on it it would really sound
very nice so um i think there's a lot of potential with this engine to sound good
the side stand on this bike is very good you put it in place once it's on the side you know it's
there and it's not going to move about a lot of size stands on different manufacturers and
particularly harleys you put them on the side and then sometimes they dig into something and
then they keep going you don't know whether they're going to fall over or not but that's
not a problem with this bike now the suspension on this bike is quite a firm ride so when you
do hit the bumps you do feel them a little bit but it doesn't unsettle the bike so it's
perfectly fine the display is nice on this bike you've got a normal analog speedo which we are
fans of we don't like these electronic futuristic ones and then you've got a digital display on the
on there as well tells you numerous different things that you'd expect it to tell you miles
per gallon etcetera your rpms tells you what gear you're in it also tells you what mode you're in
but it's quite small when it ties you up mode in so it'd be better if it was a little bit
bigger if you struggle with your eyesight you might find it a little bit hard to read
and while you're moving you have to pull the clutch in to change the mode which is good
because it stops you from accidentally going into different modes
but it can be a little bit frustrating when you definitely know you want to go into a
mode and you have to pull the clutch in and it takes a little bit of a few seconds you know
now the brakes are very good the front brake is very good the rear brake's not so good
um on its own it doesn't give you masses of stopping power you're not really supposed
to use it on its own but sometimes you need to but combined with the front it's perfectly good
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