Verging On Buying A Second Bike - What would you have?

[nick crisp]

Hey Nick, some bike porn for ya.

for a mere £1800 Powerbronze now do this café racer kit for the Triple which is carbon fibre and completely bolt on everything. Just read about it in MCN.

LED front lamp, floating rear number plate holder, you swivel the bars down to look like clip ons.

not saying youd have and extra 2k kicking about just for cosmetics but it does give options to those who wouldn't have a street because they are common. 8)

Something not right there though. Take a modern styled bike, fit with a 70s/80s Ducati 900SS rip-off fairing with LED headlamp, add spoked wheels? Hmmmm, doesn't work for me.

To deliberately avoid a bike because it is common seems daft to me. It has to be popular for a reason, which seems to be it's a bloody good bike by all accounts. Fazers are pretty common as far as bikes go, but think what you'd have missed if you applied that logic. Hence wanting to try the Triumph.

Here's a little test. Make a list of the top ten bikes of the last ten years, notwithstanding your own personal requirements and practicalities, but just focussing on how well you think those bikes do what they are designed to do. I think quite a few would put the Street on that list if they were being perfectly honest about their choices. Anyway, it'd be interesting to see what people here come up with, if nothing else