YES YES YES !!!

Here we are, Triumph best kept secret is no longer a secret.
The excellent website Motorcyclenews posted today the first pictures of the new Daytona, in Caspian blue.
(the model will first come out in Blue and silver)

What can I say about her? well, a lot of mixed feelings really, and these are shared by others on the T595.net forum. She looks Japanese!
A mix between the ZX9-R the SP1 and the CBR.
The heart is still a triple (thank God!), producing 149 Bhp for 188 kgs according to Triumph.

The mechanical base is the same as the T5, it is still a fuel injected 955 cc engine, and work has been done on some areas such as the head, the manifold, injection system, the exhaust, and other internals.
I regret they didn't rebore that engine to 1000cc to match the opposition tho'.

The cycle part remains what it was, in a lighter version. The big change is the swingarm, Triumph decided to loose the single sided version for a normal one (yuck!), claiming a better stiffness while being lighter.

I do hope Triumph has made the right move there, keeping the triple configuration was important, making a bike look like the opposition might boost sale, again, it might not, as the "old" T5 had a very personnal asset concerning its looks, and if people were concerned about reliability, no one ever said anything about the looks of the bike but that it was fantastic looking, a personality to match its engine character...
what about now???

Leave me a message if u wish to comment on this, whether u agree or not, all opinions are accepted.



Regards.



Erick