I'm glad that you're enjoying it, and the price sounds like a steal too!

It's a good little bike, I'd be happy to use one as a run around

VeeFour Good review, I just bought a second hand one from the dealer at a good price as everyone wants the new model. I had a '14 Thruxton and we had a love hate relationship. Really the bike is a canvas to improve. The brakes are barely up the job and the suspension needs help. Still once fixed they are an easy to ride and fun scooter.

Well the original Bonny was the Fireblade of it's day. It's a good bike, but I wonder how flooded the second hand market will be once these retro styled machines go out of fashion. Like you, I prefer my bikes to be up to date.

+Windy Run I think it may be a destination for me next year on the Tiger

Thanks :)

Thanks very much. They may not be a traditionally Triumph configuration, but having ridden a 2017 T120 I found the 270 lump to be a much more characterful and engaging engine to ride personally. Triumphs glory days were well and truely over by the time I first rode on the roads in 87, so I don't have the emotional connection to them like many others. For me bikes like the original Kawasaki Zed series and the Suzuki Katana get my nostalgia juices flowing as they were the big bikes of the day

@@VeeFour Yeah, I hear a lot of people praise things like the torque of the new engine. It's really the sound that kills it for me. I've heard 270s passing by, and I find they have quite a cold sound off them, in comparison to the much warmer and brighter tone of the 360s. The 270 just lacks brilliance. I was hoping for the new Royal Enfield twin to stick to the classic design, but alas, a 270 emerged. It appears that as modern twins get bigger and bigger, a 360 doesn't really work because of the intusive vibration, which I think today's riders aren't that used to. Admittedly, I haven't ridden a 270, so I guess I'm not really entitled to a say on this, but thank you for your insight all the same. Subscribed!

and a good bike it is too :)

+VeeFour :-) . It sure is

Thank you :)

I agree. Over pricing seems to be a bit of a Triumph thing in my observations

Two. An Ital Jet 80 and a Yamaha DT 175. I started early

I was born at the beginning of the 70s and I can remember seeing loads of original Trumpets knocking about in my youth, there was two on my street alone. My Tex is still going strong thanks 👍

Really!?

+VeeFour Absolutely. And the audio worked so much better this time.

+Marius Gavrila Thanks, I wrapped the mic in a wad of cloth to try and stifle the top end a bit. It improved it a bit but I still need a better set up.

tony robins Thanks for the useful and insightful feedback

I think he is saying, a bit less talking and a bit more bike sounds might have been nice.

Merv That's kind of the whole point of a test ride first impressions video.

Well then I'd say you nailed it. Personally I loved the way you were out of breath most of the time. I guess it just made it seem more exciting. Oh and the singing.. I mean you can't do a test ride first impressions video without singing. Keep up the great work.

yeah, maybe you're right Merv. Perhaps I should keep them short like your uploads. I mean 30 seconds worth of lo res waste gate punctuated gear changing? That's got viral vid written all over it!

Well it's worth a shot mate. I tell you what, if you stick a turbo on a bonny, I'll watch it and tell my friends. Anyway, thanks for the view.. And btw, that's a BOV noise. :)

I'm sorry but I disagree. Like all motor vehicles built in the 1970's and 80's in the UK, Triumph suffered badly with build quality and reliability and just couldn't compete with Japan in both of these aspects. Triumph were better than most, but were still known for poor reliability and quality of finish. The Honda Dream took and held a beach head within the ranks of the almost fanatically loyal Brit bike following, and as soon as the CB750 four cylinder arrived on the scene, with it's non-leaking horizontally split crank case, and it's smooth reliable power delivery, it was game over and the writing was on the wall for all British Marques. I am assuming that by the dropping of the s from maths you are from the USA (I apologise if this isn't the case), and as such were probably not knocking around the UK during the period in question, but let me tell you that the place was grim back then. The national labour force was heavily unionised and prone to strikes and walkouts at the drop of a hat, and the whole economy of the UK automotive industry was subsequently destroyed by near constant industrial action on the shop floor, and poor management higher up. Unlike their Japanese rivals, UK car and bike firms failed to reinvest properly in their products, instead assuming that a nationalistic brand loyalty would blinker buyers from seeing just how further ahead the Japanese were. You're right in saying that Triumph have an envious history and pedigree, but the linage of that pedigree withered on the vine during the 1970s, and in doing 'the math', like for like sales of Brit bikes against Japanese during this period tells you all that you need to know. Fortunately for me, being a big Triumph fan, the Marque was reborn in the 1990's and are now thankfully being made to the highest standards and are able to take on the world, standing toe to toe and holding it's ground against any other make out there, in design, reliability, performance and any other performance indicator you could list. So I was there, and I'm not talking crap. My memories are clear that from the mid to late 70's onwards, Triumph became an ever rarer sight on British roads, almost to the point of extinction, whereas the big 4 Japanese brands were common to the point of ubiquity.

Wow Dean Scobie from the US of A took a serious beating from Britains VeeFour 🤣