So it’s time for an update on my Speed Triple race bike, and it is all change as projects often are, for good or ill.
As you know, I was waiting on race parts arriving with more being ordered and whilst waiting for things to arrive I got busy online learning more about these early T500s. It was whilst asking on a Triumph specific page on a popular social media site about power figures I was informed the factory quoted figures were not particularly accurate, or often wildly over-optimistic at best. Also they were more likely to be crank figures and that I would likely find my bike closer to a rear wheel power figure of 85bhp and a Daytona likely to be more on the money for my target maximum of 105bhp and not the 120bhp claimed.
With this in mind