Triumph Speed Triple 955

Here's my bike, a Triumph Speed Triple 955i. It's certainly a real world bike, and a riders bike for that matter.

The Speed Triple impressed me a lot with its riding characteristics, modern styling, and capability as a long distance bike. It is capable of not only performing a number of roles with ease, but it makes them serious fun as well, that's the difference between it and the other naked bikes on the market today.
It's a great all round package powered by one of the best motors on the market. It handles well, it's comfortable, well
built and it's British! I can certainly live with the Speed Triple as an everyday bike. The Speed Triple is the street fighter of the Triumph range, with all the looks and performance to match. This bike is a stunt riders dream. The
Speed Triple claims 120ps at 9100rpm, somewhat less than the Daytona's impressive 133.1ps at the rear wheel, but having said that, the Speed Triple has that seat-of-the-pants feeling that only a naked bike can give you, and with the revisions it has become a superb bike for all types of rider and roads. Riding the bike is an absolutely pleasure and is so easy that I wondered why I had never considered this bike as a sports bike alternative before. On these roads you can cruise in top (6th), rolling the throttle on and off, the fuel injection responding cleanly at these speeds and the fantastic torque of the motor grunting the bike along with absolute ease.

Now my brother Matt has seen sense and gone out and spent all his money on the latest model Speed Triple. Having chopped in his VFR 800 and now fully run the engine in, he grins from ear to ear every time he rides it.

	This is my little beast.
My bike on the left with my brothers new S3 on the right.
	Again, Matt's and my bikes, taken here along Clacton sea front.
Before Matt got his new S3, here with his VFR800.

I sold my bike on the 19th May. It was a difficult thing to do but it's gone to a good home. As the Unimog has taken over my life it was the only sensible thing to do. Maybe I'll have another Speed Triple in a couple of years.