Motorcycle Ratings and Reviews
Photography by Riles & Nelson “Entry-level?” As a dude who’s been riding motorcycles for three decades now, am I not supposed to like ones labeled “entry-level”? I guess because sportbikes are my favorites, smaller and lighter to me generally means better, a mindset I can’t entirely shake when I ride cruisers. Case in point would [...]
Years sold: 10 (2001-present) MSRP new: $6699 (2001) to $8899 (2010) Blue Book retail value: $3235 (2001) to $7590 (2010) Basic specs: A standard-style parallel-Twin in either 790cc or 865cc displacements making horsepower in the fifties, torque in the forties and posting quarter-mile times in the high- to mid-13-second bracket. Why it won: Though this [...]
Rumors, “SPY SHOTS” and controlled leaks continue to surround Triumph’s pair of mid-displacement adventure bikes in the Tiger/BMW GS/Multistrada idiom. We conjectured Triumph’s 675cc Triple could be bored and stroked to as much as 825cc or so, the better to compete with things like BMW’s F800ST/F800GS—large and not-so-large Adventure machines being all the showroom rage [...]
Straight up, Triumph’s Thunderbird was designed to go head-to-head with one of America’s holiest of institutions, Harley-Davidson and its essentially all-cruiser lineup. Looking at the Hinckley, England-based company’s line, there really are only three models that fit the mold of “traditional cruiser,” and two of those (Speedmaster and America) are still loose interpretations of the [...]
The cast of characters bringing the Von Dutch Triumph back to life is growing. When we saw how bad the engine really was, Bill Getty was enlisted to perform the resurrection. Getty runs JRC Engineering, one of the country’s biggest Britbike parts distributors, supplying shops with the pieces needed to keep the Queen’s Iron on [...]
Certain things take guts. For a motorcycle manufacturer, one of those things is to allow anybody outside the company to even see an early prototype of an as-yet-to-exist model. But we saw it. It takes even more cojones to let someone not on the design and engineering team actually ride said early prototype. But we [...]
Photography by Bob Stokstad Like a torrid love affair, the first ride can sometimes instantly endear a bike to its rider, making it feel like a perfect match. All the good qualities—those that fit the rider’s needs and abilities—are readily apparent, and the bike feels right. On the other hand, some motorcycles, in the words [...]
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