TRIUMPH SPEED TRIPLE 1200RS 6TH
It seems really harsh ranking the Speed Triple 1200RS in second to last position, but the truth is we are over the moon that there is a Triumph in the test at all. By designing a brand new Speed Triple from the ground up, with much more power and much less weight than the outgoing 1050 Speed Triple, Triumph has got itself an invitation to the party that it otherwise wouldn’t have got.
We’re not talking small numbers, either. To make the jump from naked to supernaked, the already brilliant 1050 Speed Triple had to shed 10kg and gain 29bhp to improve its power-to-weight ratio by a massive 26% – and what a difference it has made to one of Triumph’s longest-serving models.
Relative to the previous 1050, the 1200 is a giant step forward… but relative to the rest of the bikes in the class, it’s still got some way to go,
