675 Coming back to Triumph!! Street rs

I tried the RS and the Speed Triple R back to back.
The RS is almost like a two stroke, a bit mundane initially, but once you hit the powerband at about 7.5-8K it takes off like a scalded cat and probably turns quicker !
The Speed R in comparison has grunt all through the rev range as you 'd expect with the bigger motor .
I probably had a bigger grin after riding the RS but the speeds you're doing to get the motor really spinning were licence losing territory.
If it was as a trackbike, it'd be the RS hands down, but for the road the Speed was more what I wanted, I tend to prefer a grunty motor anyway.

I picked up a Black Speed S last week and loving it.

 

Street Triple is a cracking bike to ride round the twisties, even more so with the new engine, and it's a looker too. Given the choice for all round use I'd probably go with the R myself and spend the saving on an Arrow can, fly screen and quick shifter. I like the aluminium silver (grey) myself, but they're all nice.

 

Although the R is slightly better, it's max torque figure is not much lower 77nm at 9,400rpm !
The RS torque is the same 77nm but at at 10,800.
I suspect they won't seem much different when you're actually riding them

By comparison the Speed is at 112nm at 7,850.
Mind you that's still a bit revvy compared to my Bandit 12 which is 90.7nm at 4,500rpm

 

You might be surprised, it only got interesting on open roads when you were into pretty much 3 figure speeds !
It did make me grin then though

 

I am with TC on this. Coming from an S1000r I find the speed much more entertaining with its power delivery. I don't feel the need to thrash the engine because there is so much grunt everywhere.

I also find the speed more agile than the BM, I think its to do with the heavy steering damper on the BM.

Whatever you buy I am sure you will enjoy. It is difficult moving to a less powerful bike as they always seem to lack something.

Enjoy your test rides!

Matt

 

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Try mine with bar risers helps the vertically challenged by sitting more upright also heard that making the seat thinner in the width helps

 

Welcome to the forum

 

What bar risers did you use ?
And did you need to reroute cables etc ?

 

I recently got a 675 standard as my first big bike, the weight of it is crazy and so manouverable in and out of traffic. One of my mates compared it to a bmx and hes on a gsxr 600.. We all headed down to southend shakedown last weekend with a bunch of mates 3 on gsxr 600s and another on an r6. They couldnt believe the torque off the line, must admit bottom end its great once you get to a ton it does tend to drop off in acceleration

 

I managed to get the first ride on a brand new demo RS the week they were released. I think Triumph have done a great job with it. Bit small for me but its my mrs thats interested in buying one.
We didn't particularly like the colour scheme of the RS but our dealer is happy to get it painted whatever colour we want by 8 Ball; mrs wants purple like her 2012 Street. Costs about £800.00 extra.
Did take my little Olfi camera on the ride, mainly to show the mrs as she has not had chance to ride it yet. Apolgies I'm no vlogger and there is wind noise.

 

You can buy them but I had some alloy bar and have a lathe so made them as tall as I could without having to extend/reroute cables or wires

 

Why does it always look faster when you don't know where you are?

 

Will do Mo good luck with Suzuki sale

 

Ah right, ok.

It looks like they were raised a fair bit from the pics, so at least I know I should be fairly safe buying some relatively small risers for now.