5 minutes on a Speed Triple

[Headbanger]

Filmed overseas on a closed road under controlled conditions, Bike speed limited to 104km/h.

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[shrub]

I had a ball, rode faster though the windies than I knew was possible, spent a lot of time of time on the back wheel and had a grin a lightear wide most of the time.

I also got a ticket for 137 and if it weren't for a decent cage driver would have got another on the same leg for at least the same. I rode 40 km down a backroad I had never been down in the wet at night with a bald back tyre and aged about a brazillian years.

And there is nothing like a speed triple for sheer blast, but they're just too fast for my license.

[TOTO]

man those overseas guys' lines need a bit of work

[Headbanger]

Yes well, He is after all a mere nubblit in comparison to the riding gods of Kiwibiker, and there were plenty of suck lines under-taken.

Of course, The helmet camera gives a very distorted view of what is going on and it would be a silly fool who used that angle to judge where the bike was on the road or why it was there.

[trailblazer]

cool sounding speed triple. those over seas roads look like they are a bit of fun. :lol:

[SMOKEU]

And there is nothing like a speed triple for sheer blast, but they're just too fast for my license.

Surely you mean not fast enough?

[shafty]

LOVE that sound!

[shrub]

Surely you mean not fast enough?

No, they love being ridden fast and then the fat men in Holden Commodes take your license away. I've considered buying one, but a radar detector would be fitted the day I picked it up.

[Maha]

Filmed overseas on a closed road under controlled conditions, Bike speed limited to 104km/h.


That looks like somewhere in central NZ maybe heading NW in the morning?
NZ scenery is so beautiful this time of year.

[NZsarge]

No, they love being ridden fast and then the fat men in Holden Commodes take your license away. I've considered buying one, but a radar detector would be fitted the day I picked it up.

Street triple then...?

[Headbanger]

That looks like somewhere in central NZ maybe heading NW in the morning?
NZ scenery is so beautiful this time of year.

The really freaky thing is that the fertiliser plant at the very beginning looks just like the one mentioned in Big Daves favourite road thread.

[shrub]

Street triple then...?

My son has one and i rode many kilometres on them when I worked at the Triumph shop, and they're awesome bikes but too small for me - I'm 6 ft 3 and 120 kgs. I look like a circus clown on a Street Triple, plus I like a big heavy bike that needs muscling around whereas the Street is very light and responsive.

[NZsarge]

My son has one and i rode many kilometres on them when I worked at the Triumph shop, and they're awesome bikes but too small for me - I'm 6 ft 3 and 120 kgs.
Fair enough.


I look like a circus clown on a Street Triple
Yeah I hear ya, that's in part why I traded My '06 FZ1 for ZX14.


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[hayd3n]

The really freaky thing is that the fertiliser plant at the very beginning looks just like the one mentioned in Big Daves favourite road thread.

you tube description :June 10, 2010 — Casual blat through some back roads around paradise Wanganui on a Speed Triple.

[cruza]

My son has one and i rode many kilometres on them when I worked at the Triumph shop, and they're awesome bikes but too small for me - I'm 6 ft 3 and 120 kgs. I look like a circus clown on a Street Triple, plus I like a big heavy bike that needs muscling around whereas the Street is very light and responsive.

Yeah I find my speed triple a neat fit. quite like the wider bars on the newer bikes. tucked in behind a busa on the way from palmersation to ranfulrly last weekend, paradise.... just wished the corners kept on coming:yes:

[sinfull]

Filmed overseas on a closed road under controlled conditions, Bike speed limited to 104km/h.


Yeah Same !

Was (aparently) an experiment with a tank mounted cam, but as ya see the speed three's vibration and nakedness was all too much for the cam !
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[SMOKEU]

No, they love being ridden fast and then the fat men in Holden Commodes take your license away. I've considered buying one, but a radar detector would be fitted the day I picked it up.

You won't get your licence taken off you, what the police don't want to admit is that they'll 'abandon chase' on anything faster than a CBR250 going full throttle.

[dipshit]

Was (aparently) an experiment with a tank mounted cam, but as ya see the speed three's vibration and nakedness was all too much for the cam !

Overtaking in turning bays..??? You better hope no car is going to use the bay for a turn.

[AD345]

So

Only one gear on these Speed triple beasties is it?

[Big Dave]

Says Captain Air....Compressor Motor.

[2wheeldrifter]

Overseas huh..... we have a place here called Whanganui must be like a sister town thing eh?

[Big Dave]

Overseas huh..... we have a place here called Whanganui must be like a sister town thing eh?

Bugtussle

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[2wheeldrifter]

Bugtussle


Lost me Dave?

[Big Dave]

Bugtussle


Lost me Dave?

It's a mythical town from early American Rural Sitcoms. 'Let's go downtown and watch some haircuts'.

[2wheeldrifter]

filmed in Tasmania.........


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Yeah I sux... no sound :(


Oh got it now...

headbanger lives in my mythical town with rednecks? and has a big screen :yes:

[Headbanger]

So

Only one gear on these Speed triple beasties is it?

You've lost me, I do dozens of gear changes in my vid, choppin it down a couple gears at a time while braking into some of them corners.

Uh, I mean in the video some guy from Bugtussle made overseas.

[AD345]

You've lost me, I do dozens of gear changes in my vid, choppin it down a couple gears at a time while braking into some of them corners.

Uh, I mean in the video some guy from Bugtussle made overseas.

Hmm

I'm willing to concede that my speakers are cheap, my hearing suffers from industrail deafness and the vid sound is a tad choppy....

It just never seems like the bike gets into a crusing gear - but then I guess it aint a cruiser

mebbe I just need to get out on a few more higher revving bikes myself

[AD345]

Says Captain Air....Compressor Motor.

Well I guess coming from the Buell with such a high performance en......*arrgh*choke*thumP*

Nope - couldn't do it

[Gubb]

My son has one and i rode many kilometres on them when I worked at the Triumph shop, and they're awesome bikes but too small for me - I'm 6 ft 3 and 120 kgs. I look like a circus clown on a Street Triple, plus I like a big heavy bike that needs muscling around whereas the Street is very light and responsive.

That's me exactly, and i've never had any trouble fitting on the Street. The Missus still hops on the back on regular occasion too.

[ernie953]

just picked up my 09 speedy today,trailered it back frpm Welly .Hope to get out on it tomorrow and give it a wirl.

[Rogue Rider]

I love my 1050 Speed Triple, just fitted heated grips to it today so I can wind all winter long rain hail or shine..... nothing rides like it, all the way up to 247 clicks, its like what John Trevolta said..... dang what a rush.... Its a great second bike for hooning and eats corners for breakfast.

[shrub]

That's me exactly, and i've never had any trouble fitting on the Street. The Missus still hops on the back on regular occasion too.

I have no trouble fitting on them, but I find them too light and responsive - I prefer a bike that's a bit of a whale and I've seen pictures of me riding a Street and they just don't suit me.