I don't think Triumph are capable of making a bad bike these days

mike .freville Thank you very much, I appreciate your kind feedback. You'll love this bike, it's a great engine and it handles like super naked 👍

As it should be, it's a great bike :)

+David Martyn Enjoy your new bike, you've chosen well

+sfbdotcom Cheers buddy. It's more torque than power that's lacking and it's certainly quick enough once it's it's up and moving, but with my bulk and full luggage I suspected that it would be a bit sluggish which is why I ended up getting the 1200 Explorer instead. I think the camera in wide angled Superview makes the filtering look a bit dicey, as it really exaggerates the speed towards the edge of the frame and makes it look as if things are really close. I'm actually a very conservative lanes splitter. I'm glad you enjoyed it and cheers for the feedback.

You're welcome, and I don't think you'll be disappointed. Nah the screen is okay, and if you're a taller rider like me, then an after market screen extender does the job. Unless you ride bikes like Goldwings or Pan Europeans a bit of wind noise is all part of the motorbike experience. Good luck with your purchase👍

T2003Cubs It's legal here in the UK, but you still need to keep your head on a swivel

I found that the screen on the 800 wasn't very good for keeping the wind off me, and if I'd have bought it then I would have bought an after market one to improve things. I ended up buying the 2015 1200 Explorer which has a bigger screen, but I had to fit a small extender to the top of the screen to get rid of the last bit of wind buffet

+VeeFour I test rode the two for the last time today and I must say I agree, whilst I assumed all the buffeting had gone - a little existed on the explorer. I may buy an extended for the long distance motorways - but the 1200 is by far a very different beast and in my opinion, just that bit more fun! Thanks for the info, stay safe out there!

Carlos Madureira Good question. Well I had a 2012 Speed Triple which I think is pretty much the same as the 2014, and it was a fantastic bike. I had no complaints about it, it's engine is superb and it's really smooth, great handling bike and the build quality is top notch. It doesn't have the electronic rider aids that most litre bikes have these days, but it doesn't suffer for the lack of them. However, I traded it in for a brand new 2014 Aprilia Tuono. Why you may ask? Well in a nutshell, the Tuono was the bike I should have bought in the first place. It's a very similar bike to the Triumph, and does everything the S3 does.......only much much better. The Aprilia is considerably and very noticeably more powerful and torquey. It handles like a full blooded super sports bike, but is reasonably comfortable. When revving hard, it's V4 engine makes a noise like the end of the world, and throwing the throttle wide open in 2nd and 3rd gear feels like you're riding the leading edge of the shock wave from a nuclear detonation. It's got all the rider aids to stop you making to much of a mess of things, but they don't get in the way of the enjoyment this bike gives you. All in all the Triumph is a fantastic bike and well worth owning, but the Tuono is (in my opinion) just better in every way. I think the reason that people seem to sell them, is that the fuel mileage is terrible, and they guzzle fuel like there's a hole in the tank. The low speed fuel injection mapping is quite lumpy, which makes the bike a bit difficult to ride at low speed in heavy traffic. I suspect that the Tuono is just a bit to much bike for some people, and I don't say that meaning that I'm a super star rider who can handle such a bike, but more that it's not the kind of bike that you want to ride day in day out as it's a very aggressive machine. Also sometimes all that power can be a bad thing, because you can never use it all on the public highway. If you fully open the taps on one, and this is the same for any super bike really, you'll be going in excess of the safe limits of the road, and the legal speed limits, in seconds. Sometimes lower powered bikes are more fun because you can let loose on them more without fear of getting yourself into something, that you can't get out of with body and bike intact. I only ride my Aprilia at the weekend and on the occasional track day, if I had to use it for day to day transport, it'd get annoying quite quickly. All that aside though, the Tuono is the most awesome machine I've ever ridden, and I love love love it!!!

Thanks veefour...I guess I have to just choose..thanks again ..keep up the good vids

+Carlos Madureira it's a win win choice which ever you choose :)

it was from Youles Triumph, their Manchester branch

Ta. Tim

Bil Bonanno You've chosen well. The engine is a peach and the XRx has the perfect level of features versus price. The wide angled lens on my camera makes filtering look a lot faster and closer quarters than it actually is. In reality these plenty of room and time to react, plus I've been riding for over 3 decades with a long spell as a notorbike courier, so the ability to filter is almost hardwired into my brain after literally 100s of thousands of miles doing it 😉

Ahh I can't claim credit for the filtering song, that must go to Captain Rambunctious as he invented it, plus he's as mad as a half swatted wasp. check him out if you haven't already :) kzfaq.info/love/jLZfuMwNYnzt7lMb6p3pbQ

got tinnitus now and hard of hearing well the wife say i can not here her ;)

MrEnglishman6969 After riding for 30 Years without ear plugs, I've definitely done myself damage, but I think it's the wind noise more than anything that causes the damage. I go everywhere with plugs now, but it's definitely a case of a stable door flapping in the wind whilst the sounds of a horse whinnying over the horizon can be heard 😞

paul teixeira I think I may have covered it in a subsequent video, but in a nutshell when I made this vid I was researching a number of options of various engine sizes and models, but I had narrowed it down to this one and the BMW R1200GS TA, the Triumph 1200 wasn't even on the test list due to its physical size. However, on a subsequent visit to the Triumph dealer I was offered a test ride on the 1200, and I was suprised just how nimble it was for a big tank of a bike and how much more stable and comfortable it was over the 800 on a motorway cruise. The dealer then offered me a brand new zero mileage 1200 at a massive discount because it was an outgoing model (the 2016 electronic suspension model was due out) and this discount was so much that it made the decision easy. For not much more than the 800, I got a brand new 1200 with all the accessories catalogue thrown at it for free, and it's proven to have been the right choice for me

Thankyou..i just passed and im thinking of getting the 800. Or fz6. I like the triumphs. Grest vid.. still undisided.

I've never ridden the FZ6, but there are no bad bikes these days so it will all come down to what yoi plan to use it for. If you think that you'll be doing some touring, then I'd recommend the 800 👍

it'll do nicely for that, and it'll keep up with the 1200 guys

+VeeFour thats brill, thanks

you'll need to give it a bit to hang with them, but the 800 motor likes to be revved hard

ah right, well it was between the tiger 800 xrx or the bmw 800gs but from reviews it seems the tiger is much better. I will probably test ride them both when i get the license but going to have a look at the tiger today =P

from the Manchester area of the UK

Very bad. It's wasn't much better all the way up either, I'd definitely need a taller screen or a spoiler attaching to the top of the factory one

That is one of the reasons I got rid of my Tenere. The buffeting was atrocious.

+Darin Mosier wow, that's a bummer. Sometimes it's better to have no screen as the wind blast is shared over your whole torso, rather than being concentrated around your head

I've realised to late I think :(

+Carlos Madureira That's not bad advice as the S3 is the comfier bike and is great all round. I thought the same, but I always found myself thinking about the Aprilia, and ultimately that desire never went away. Then one day whilst just wandering around my local dealer, I spied a brand new Tuono on display with a manager's special sticker on it with a big reduction, and before I knew what was going on I was shaking hands with the dealer. I don't regret a thing :)

+sandydenny lives I mentioned this very issue with the dealer as another vlogger brought it up on their review, but the guy said that he's never seen any problems caused by it in all the crash damaged ones that had ended up at their workshop. But then again he would say that wouldn't he :)

+sandydenny lives And what a fucking moron CEO as well. If you saw the fuckers off you lose your warranty. Nice one triumph.

That's what the panniers are for.

Prejudging an entire people based on their nagionality? Really? That doesn't sound like the words of a yogi

nonsense. All novice riders take note, that I've been riding for over 30 years, 6 of them as a professional motorcycle courier where I rode in some of the most dense traffic n the UK for 80k miles a year. In all that time and milage I have yet tobe involved in a single accident. It's called spacial awareness