TRIPLE TREATMENT

They say there is no replacement for displacement. Indeed, that maxim has been widely applied by bike and car manufacturers, particularly from the Land of the Brave, with varying success.

While Triumph has never been shy of knocking out a big cubed bike — look no further than the behemoth Rocket III — its middleweight range of 675cc engines has held sway as a global sales winner, particularly in Street Triple guise. So why has it been upped to 765cc for three of the new four-model range of Street Triples? After all, they certainly weren’t broke. Why fix them?

Aha. Glad you asked. That’s been well motivated by Triumph’s coup of being announced as the engine supplier for Moto2 machinery for the 2019 GP season. That’s a huge get for Triumph, and it makes all sorts of sense to have a version of that engine powering its middleweights. Tooling, showroom synergies, parts… Oddly, there is no plan at this stage to bung the donk into the brand’s sportier Daytona range, but there you have it. Check the accompanying story for how the Moto2 deal came about.

So to the guts of it. The new bikes exploit the new capacity via a heady electronics suite that includes ABS, traction control, and a ride-by-wire throttle