STREETS AHEAD

Triumph Street Triple 765rs

You’ve really got to doff your cap to Triumph. Not only did it conceive the Street Triple 675 in the rst place back in 2007, in the process setting the gold standard for performance, desirability, build quality and price in the middleweight naked class, it’s continued to set the standard ever since. That’s 16 years with a target on your back, roughly 5800 days when designers at all your competitors have gone to work each day to come up with something better… and, being blunt, have not managed it.

Don’t get me wrong, the sector is loaded with bikes that are all brilliant and worthy of your hard-earned cash, but I’ll bet you a year’s subscription to Fast Bikes magazine that you can’t nd a middleweight naked test in ANY of the UK motorcycle media during the past decade and a half that the Street Triple hasn’t won. So, what do you do when your bike is top dog in class, with no sign of any challenge coming from your competitors?