We leave behind the moments of pure leisure to return to the daily and monotonous routes on the expressways in our usual trips. Taking into account that we are talking about the Triumph Street Triple, almost a sports car without a fairing, it is easy to imagine where the shots are going to go.
In the same way that its predecessor fulfilled with a note in many of the sections that we could face and that in almost all it has won some point, there is one in which I think it is slightly worse. The passenger was more comfortable in the previous Street Triple and I am not sure what to blame it for, but it may have something to do with the redesign of the seat and tank assembly, but we will analyze it carefully.
Triumph Street Triple: pure naked
That naked bikes are not the most appropriate motorcycles for long journeys down the highway is obvious, but if you are willing to pay the price of an almost total absence of fairing you may be surprised at how well the car behaves. Triumph Street Triple cruising the highways.
Maybe, and just maybe, the optional little dome that our unit did not have installed deflects the air a bit but I highly doubt that the difference is significant. The air will whip us from the navel upwards, although at legal speeds it is quite bearable. In addition, the long running seat allows us to vary the posture to recline slightly on the tank.
One of the counterparts of lowering the position of the elements of the motorcycle so much is that the Triumph Street Triple it seems that you don't go as integrated as you should in her. It seems that you are riding on more than on the motorcycle, for example if with slow traffic or retention we want to lean on the tank we will have to bend down a bit, more than we are used to, and you know that I am not exactly a Globetrotter.
In section suspensions yesterday we saw that despite being quite simple, they behave in a more than decent way in sporty driving on mountain roads. It would be expected that on the highway they would be hard or uncomfortable but the truth is that no, in Hinckley they have achieved a excellent compromise between hardness and comfort, and only in very pronounced potholes we will miss some more concession to comfort.
On curly asphalt the lower back does not make you mincemeat, something to which the relaxed driving position with which the handlebar gives us and a quite comfortable soft seat also contributes.
Regarding the engine there is only room for praise because the 675 cubic centimeter inline tri-cylinder behaves in an exemplary manner. There are no vibrations, no power bumps, no rattling, and if we need it there is always a large reserve of torque at our disposal. Circulating in sixth gear at 100-120 km / h we find the lap counter needle without exceeding the first half of its useful band and even so the rear wheel responds forcefully to the accelerator commands.
Something I did notice was a some abruptness when driving at the tip of gas, with some roughness in the on / off moment of the accelerator and a certain delay in the transmission of force to the rear wheel. It's nothing serious, but it did catch my attention because it contrasts with the general sweetness of the rest of the bike's reactions.
Triumph Street Triple - Far Passenger
If I had to choose a bad result for the Triumph Street Triple it would be in terms of the passenger's habitability. It is not that the seat is hard or small, or that the footpegs are high, it is just that perhaps it is a section to which they have not paid all the attention it deserved.
Remembering we can remember how in the first part of the test I left you an image that compared the 2013 model with the 2012 model in which we can see how the shape of the seat has changed considerably. It is still a bench seat but because of its shapes it now looks much more like a two-level sports car, with a very steep step and a bump at the front from the passenger area.
As I said, it is not hard or small, it has lost some size, but the problem is that leave the copilot far away, there is too much room for the driver and the passenger is left with a lot of space ahead. Too much room for a person of average height to reach comfortably with their hands to lean on a tank that is lower than normal while dodging a driver in an upright position that does not correspond to that of the passenger.
My regular co-pilot is about the same height as me, so maybe someone taller wouldn't have as much trouble, but if she lack of integration on the Triumph Street Triple It is something that hovered in the mind of the driver, in that of the package it can generate a certain rejection. Having tested the outgoing model with a passenger, it must be said that it was a little more comfortable than in the 2013 model.
