CHARLIE TRIUMPH SPEED TRIPLE 1200RS

TIME ON TEST: TWO MONTHS

ODOMETER MILES

BHP: 178/125Nm

GAIN: N/A

NEXT AIM: GET IT BACK

I went into some detail last month about my lack of time in the seat over the past 18 Covid-ravished months to the point where I had been reticent to take ownership of the 1200RS for Fast Bikes. The lack of riding combined with the well-documented increases in the Triumph’s power jettisoning it in as a marked contender for the supernaked crown, did have me questioning my ability to tame a bike boasting such credentials.

You have to keep in mind that colleagues fight over these supernakeds, waving the front and back wheels in the air, displaying skills learnt from their ‘missspent youths’ that really passed me by. Certainly, my riding credentials do not tally up to TTs, BSBs and national race meets like these boys.