It sounds like a bar room brawl involving bears!’
TRIUMPH STREET TRIPLE THE BIKES THAT MADE US
Some great bikes excel at just one thing. Others, maybe two – say being brilliantly fast yet beautiful. But very, very few tick almost every box going: like managing to be fast and also versatile; or having great looks and an iconic brand and yet being affordable, too. And, perhaps best of all, appealing to almost every type of rider, from relative novices after a first big bike, to women seeking something thrilling yet manageable, to trackday types and beyond. Yet Triumph’s brilliant Street Triple does just that – as thousands of happy, yet very different, owners prove. Reader James Halliday is one. “I always wanted a Street Triple and still own mine after four years,” he told MCN. “It’s very versatile, comfy and the punchy 675 triple sounds ace. It’s been to the TT, used for trackdays, goes out for a blast with my mates and even makes a fun commuter!” Fabio Iannelli, who’s had two, is another. “I needed a bike to fulfil both my biker needs and my commuting ones,” he told MCN. “Enter Street Triple one, which lead on to number two!” Paul Slatter is another fan. “I had a 2015 Triumph 1050 Tiger Sport which ticked all the boxes,” he told MCN. “Then I took it in for a service and they gave me a Street Triple R for the day. I got about two miles down the road, turned round and got them to do a part-ex there and then. I realised there was one element missing from my motorcycling: fun!” So there’s a certain irony to the fact that the Striple, as it has become known, was created almost by chance. Back in the mid-Noughties, after Triumph decided to re-focus on triples, the successor to the ambitious but flawed TT600 supersport four came