TRIUMPH STREET TRIPLE 765RS
Two significant things happened in 2007. Triumph launched the original Street Triple 675, and I started my life as a freelance motorcycle road tester. Okay, so only one significant thing... and unlike me, the Triumph is by far the longest-serving bike in the sector that, in many ways, it started. It was probably the first to introduce the whole concept of small price ticket doesn’t have to mean small spec.
The Triumph is at an advantage to all the other bikes here – it’s the only one with the benefit of being able to source most of its components from an existing bike, and in doing so can share a lot of the original tooling costs, leaving money left over to boost the spec sheet. The donor bike is, of course, the Daytona 675, which may well no longer be in production but was around long enough and sold in quantities big enough to allow the Street Triple to benefit from its legacy.
For 10 years, the Street Triple used the frame, swingarm, engine, electrics, clocks, most of
