In 2008 Triumph aimed a thunderbolt at the motorcycle world in the form of a naked bike that blew the competition out of the water and totally transformed and redefined the middleweight class forever – the Street Triple had arrived. And then a year later Triumph upped the game and revealed the Street Triple R, a higher-spec version boasting an uprated chassis for even more sporting fun. So groundbreaking was the Street Triple that even now, 14 years after it first arrived, if you are after a used naked middleweight to get your pulse racing, it is by far the best option. What makes it so good? Where do we start...
Unlike so many of its rivals back in the day, the Street Triple isn’t some parts-bin special that has been
