Triumph sprint

[dr bong]

Just to clarify, it wasn't a quick test drive, I owned a Sprint 1050ST for nearly 2 years and over 14000 miles, at the time I was a shift worker and this was my daily transport so a decent headlight was essential. It put out a very narrow beam of light, what made it worse was the fork dive under braking and then over extending under acceleration so the light was pointing everywhere except where I wanted it. I tried an '08 some time later, much higher bars that I wasn't keen on, didn't ride it at night so can't comment. Other points, the underseat exhaust was hard to keep clean (gave up) the Triumph hard luggage was a sick joke (the warranty replacements were not much better) the chain adjusters seize up if you don't keep an eye on them and if you take the seat off, its a TWAT to get back on  :\
Don't get me wrong, the positives outweigh the negatives, the engine is just right for brisk road riding and they really do handle.