this is the triumph speedmaster and we've reviewed all
of the triumph bonnevilles now and have we saved the best to the last
apart from being a stupendously good looking motorcycle the thing that sets the bonneville
speedmaster apart from all the others is the forward controls here which means your feet are
positioned forwards rather than back here like all the other ones and that makes for a really
comfortable riding position i've been riding it around for hours and hours and hours it's so much
fun and so comfortable you've got this really plush seat here which is extremely comfortable
you've got a pull back on the handlebars which is unusual if you don't like that of course you can
change that but in fact it's quite nice to ride with and i didn't find any problems at all apart
from very tight turns at junctions you get your hands into a bit of an awkward position but other
than that it's a nice feel to the handlebars you've got the 16 inch wheels front and rear
big fat tires and that helps absorb some of the road bumps and what have you you've got
a mono shock rear suspension and the springs under the seat and it's adjustable for pre-load
um the suspension doesn't have masses of travel it's a road bike they none of them do so if you
bash yourself into a pothole on the road you will feel a metallic clunk in the front there
and it will bottom out but other than that the suspension is very good and the ride is superb
the speed master has the parallel twin 1200cc engine and it produces 76.9 brake horsepower
at 6100 rpm but you do feel the torque from very low rpm it peaks at 106 newton meters
at 4 000 rpm but you do get a lot of torque from say two and a half
onwards so it's a nice bike to burble around and you can just open the throttle without changing
down gears and it'll pull up hills and what have you so it's a very nice torquey engine
the wheelbase is 1500 millimeters and the rake is 25.3 degrees that's the steepness of the headstock
usually the same angle as the forks not always and the trail is 91.4 millimeters it's a bit
complicated look it up but that's basically the steering geometry and as with all triumphs it's
a responsive sharp steering bike but it's not at all twitchy it corners very nicely
and is a pleasure to ride you've got a 12 liter very beautiful fuel tank absolutely
beautiful paintwork is absolutely perfect and it does 60.9 miles per gallon which is incredible
the weight is 263 kilograms and when you're riding it doesn't feel heavy but it does feel solid
and planted which is one of the advantages of a heavier bike so you do feel very stable
and that's no bad thing the service intervals on this is every 10 000 miles or once a year
whichever comes first the speedmaster is priced from 11 850 pounds in the uk
and it now fills a gap it always has really but it now more so than ever fills a gap where
the harley-davidson sportsters have disappeared because they don't meet the euro emissions anymore
so now this reminds me of a harley davidson 48 somewhat very similar sort of bike um and dare
i say it even better i mean it really is a very superb bike so um if you're on the market for that
sort of uh bike with ford controls and these sort of looks look at it it's a beautiful motorcycle
the seat height is 705 millimeters and i'm six foot two and with the forward controls
i've got plenty of room and it feels very spacious there's tons of room for the arms so it feels
like quite a big bike when you're sitting on it whether it looks big or not i don't know if you
were shorter than me of average height five foot ten you'd be absolutely fine uh if you were short
on that i think you'd be fine because of the seat height not beings at all but the length from seat
to handlebar is quite long but with the pullback that allows for a little bit more room if you were
taller you can always change the handlebars to bring your hands a little bit further
forwards
now a quick run through of what it's got you've got double disc brakes at the front brembo
brakes fantastic stopping power really is good
oh god they're good
nice old-fashioned headlight there analog speedometer perfect two modes i hate modes two
modes this is enough rain and road that's all you need maybe three modes at the most and you don't
have all these menus to scroll through and always fiddling about so it's nice and simple if it's in
rain mode you don't feel any particular difference to the way it delivers its power but obviously if
you open it up fully or what have you if you're in slippery conditions then it will bring in the
traction control more than in road but it rides very nicely no problems there you've got these
twin exhaust pipes one either side nice and short makes a nice sound obviously it complies with the
law if you change the rear can to something a little bit louder you can get a nice bark
from this engine it pops and bangs on deceleration down the hills especially so that is really nice
you've got the hidden suspension under the seat uh it looks like a hard tail but it's a soft tail
as they call them and the styling is absolutely beautiful i like this little grab right at the
back got a rear seat which comes off you can change the way it looks a little bit in that way
and there's loads of accessories from triumph and the mirrors are brilliant at last
some mirrors where you can actually see all of the road behind you so that's brilliant there so very
well thought out motorcycle very well designed ergonomically perfect and faultless the bike also
has cruise control so you simply press the button in it sets the speed you're at and to deactivate
it you either break accelerate or throttle off and with all fly-by-wire throttles you do have a
little bit of a extra sort of off position and if you do that it cancels the cruise control
as i said at the beginning of the video we've ridden all the triumph bonnevilles now and i
genuinely believe we have saved the best till last because this bike is absolutely stupendous
i love it it's beautiful to look at i mean drop dead gorgeous looks quality parts i mean it does
look absolutely beautiful it's a wonderful bike to ride it's very comfortable the engine is amazing
um the way it's been tuned and what have you they all differ the bonnevilles i like the way
this has been tuned because it gives you plenty of oomph it's responsive but not too much and
you don't always want a snappy sharp bike you don't need the most powerful bike in the world
it's got just the right amount to be very very fun but not so much to be very very dangerous so you
can have a whale of a time on this bike you can bubble along all day long exploring the world or
you can open it up and have a bit of a laugh it is everything so um this is the best bonneville
money can buy so that's a big statement isn't it so what do you think would you agree with me there
or do you have a bonneville or are you looking at getting a bonneville and do you have a difference
of opinion uh as i said my opinion is this is the number one it's wonderful um a lot of bikes that
i test ride i ride around they're all fun i like motorbikes so i don't care what they are um but
sometimes you finish the test ride put it away and that's the end of it with this i've been going on
and on a few extra miles i think i'll go somewhere else i've really enjoyed riding this bike and it's
one of the bikes that i would get out again and have another ride just for the fun of it
look at this now this is wales look at it it's so pretty
and uh this bike is just the perfect flight for touring around the countryside like this
now triumphs make some amazing bikes as we all know but one thing they don't do is a sort
of full-sized cruiser motorcycle now i think it'd be nice if triumph could look at the bmw
r18 which i would say is the best handling cruiser on the planet the engine obviously is very much
a piece of art and it's a statement take the engine away and put whatever engine you like
in your head into the rat and you've got the best handling cruiser out there um the harley davidson
cruisers as well so if you can mate the best of the harley cruisers and the bmw r18 into a triumph
cruiser you've got a bike that will sell very very well indeed let us know what you've thought of the
beautiful welsh countryside if you didn't see our last video we have moved to wales and the
scenery here is just off the planet it's amazing darcy's staying and upping him and he is doing
a review of the harley davidson soft tail standard and also he's going to be talking about how that
is restricted to the a2 license which will be very interesting indeed i've got a harley davidson uh
roadking special in the garage right there waiting for the next review so that's coming up as well
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