04-07-12, 07:19 AM
Hi mike
You arent doing triumph any injustice, cos I am sure if you had ridden my 1050 speedy with its arrow cans, you would feel different. The tiger is weedy by comparison. Firstly its almost 20 bhp down on the speedy, its a diffrent engine tune.The sprint is more highly geared ( 170 poss on the clock) , so although " punchy" , just has not got the speedys immediate punch. What is still so impressive about my bike was the any gear shove off any throttle opening. Never have ridden a bike with better throttle response. The bike pulled very hard from as low as 3k rpm, then at 6k it went hyper, sounded more V8 than triple, it was very addictive. I struggled to get more than 1200 miles from any rear tyre except 023 or roadsmart , which maybe did 3000.It was a bike you just had to ride like a twat !...the fazer with the full monty is very fast , picks up very well, better than any sub 1300cc four I have ridden, but still doesnt have that instant drive of the speedy.For sure the speedy is a character bike, will never compare in the allrounder stakes like a fazer. As such , almost any fazer rider wont probably be looking for what the bike can give. For me it was also a reminiscence of " proper" motorbikes of the past - noisy , involving , scary almost ....the complete opposite to the geniality of a fazer.I always see my fazer ,like a GS ,or an FJR as an armchair to settle back into after tazzing about on such bikes...
When the 2010 speedy came out , I felt it had changed, lost most of this character..low down shove moved a bit towards top end...handling sanitized to hondas standards...even the exhaust sounded more like a four...thats why I aint rushed out to buy one.
You arent doing triumph any injustice, cos I am sure if you had ridden my 1050 speedy with its arrow cans, you would feel different. The tiger is weedy by comparison. Firstly its almost 20 bhp down on the speedy, its a diffrent engine tune.The sprint is more highly geared ( 170 poss on the clock) , so although " punchy" , just has not got the speedys immediate punch. What is still so impressive about my bike was the any gear shove off any throttle opening. Never have ridden a bike with better throttle response. The bike pulled very hard from as low as 3k rpm, then at 6k it went hyper, sounded more V8 than triple, it was very addictive. I struggled to get more than 1200 miles from any rear tyre except 023 or roadsmart , which maybe did 3000.It was a bike you just had to ride like a twat !...the fazer with the full monty is very fast , picks up very well, better than any sub 1300cc four I have ridden, but still doesnt have that instant drive of the speedy.For sure the speedy is a character bike, will never compare in the allrounder stakes like a fazer. As such , almost any fazer rider wont probably be looking for what the bike can give. For me it was also a reminiscence of " proper" motorbikes of the past - noisy , involving , scary almost ....the complete opposite to the geniality of a fazer.I always see my fazer ,like a GS ,or an FJR as an armchair to settle back into after tazzing about on such bikes...
When the 2010 speedy came out , I felt it had changed, lost most of this character..low down shove moved a bit towards top end...handling sanitized to hondas standards...even the exhaust sounded more like a four...thats why I aint rushed out to buy one.