Back in February, when Triumph launched its heavily updated Street Triple 765 to the media, it also announced a bling ‘Moto2' edition, but didn't bring it to Jerez, in Spain, for us to ride. At the time I will admit to not really understanding why you would do that, especially when you've gone to the expense of hiring Jerez race circuit. Why wouldn't we all be let loose on a track where a round of the Moto2 world championship is held, on one of its bike bearing the Moto2 logo, on account of Triumph being the engine supplier to the class, and tie it all in together? Having just got in from my first hour or so riding the Moto2, I now know why…
It's actually pretty obvious – and also tells you more or less everything you need to know about the Moto2. If they did let us ride the Moto2 alongside the RS and R versions, it would certainly have diluted the focus on what are actually more important bikes for T riumph, the big-selling R and RS. Plus, given there's only going to be 1530 Moto2s on the planet – 765 of each colour – and they pretty much all sold out as soon as Triumph made the announcement, they rightly got us to focus on the R and RS back in the winter and deliver the good news about those to our respective audiences.
However, we were still left with questions
