Triumph unveils its new Thunderbird twin

**huck farley** · 1st August 2008, 17:06

It won't be in NZ for a good while yet but talking to my sales rep who attended the Triumph word dealer conference in Birmingham England says the they unveiled the now 1600cc parallel twin water cooled, fuel injected belt driven Triumph Thunderbird cruiser. He also told me it puts out 119hp at the back wheel at 7500rpm that's a shit load of hp for a twin. I guess it has a very long stroke to be able to produce those ponies. It looks not to bad either. But firmly with the USA sales market in mind and selling there for around $14K USA dollars. It sure is kick arse material for that price in the cruiser market over there. But Triumph want to get it dead right before the world launch. So there is more testing going on to do just that, I was told.
He also said it would probably retail in NZ for maybe $21.000 plus ORC. A picture for your perusal is below.
cheers
Huck

**Owl** · 1st August 2008, 17:18

Is that talk or torque and hp isn't torque!

**Owl** · 1st August 2008, 17:19

Good edit!

**huck farley** · 1st August 2008, 17:26

Ferris he did give me the torque figures, but I can't remember them to be honest but I recall they were very impressive. Would the HP be more or less the same as the stock V-Rod.

**spookytooth** · 1st August 2008, 17:38

some one posted this link in a earlier thread
http://www.motorcycledaily.com/21jul...erbird1600.htm

**Owl** · 1st August 2008, 17:46

Originally Posted by huck farley

Ferris he did give me the torque figures, but I can't remember them to be honest but I recall they were very impressive. Would the HP be more or less the same as the stock V-Rod.

119hp at the rear wheel would be plenty more than a stock V-Rod I'd imagine.

**rainman** · 1st August 2008, 20:36

Ooh, I like!

Note to self: May have to win Lotto after all...

**rocketman1** · 2nd August 2008, 16:45

Thats a mean looking cruiser, I could see myself owning one of these babies

MD · 2nd August 2008, 18:54

Originally Posted by huck farley

He also told me it puts out 119hp at the back wheel at 7500rpm that's a shit load of hp for a twin. .....
He also said it would probably retail in NZ for maybe $21.000 plus ORC. A picture for your perusal is below.
cheers
Huck

I hope you are close on those two numbers.
119hp at the crank is more than I would have expected. If it's above 100hp I will be seriously interested.

**Big Dave** · 2nd August 2008, 22:12

Originally Posted by MD

I hope you are close on those two numbers.
119hp at the crank is more than I would have expected. If it's above 100hp I will be seriously interested.

He told him wrong. It ain't.

It will be truck-like-bulletproof and has slightly higher numbers than the harleys it is trying to take sales off.

It's still at least 12months away too.