Triumph launches a revised version of the Street Triple R. How the model drives, we reveal in this motorcycle driving report.
- It is a good idea to look a little bit nicer to old vehicles in order to offer potential customers something new in the second model cycle.
- The Street Triple R from Triumph * has also been revised and freshened up for the new model year in order to be able to keep up with its sister series S and RS.
- We wanted to know: what's the point?
Triumph Street Triple R: start off for the three-cylinder!
So now we face the Triumph Street Triple R . The fact that the owner's manual (that's really the name) is 240 pages thick, which means long reading and short journeys, doesn't bother us - we prefer to turn the ignition key right away and start the 118 hp engine in the classic way at the push of a button.
Positive surprise : there is almost nothing to adjust. You can choose from the three driving programs rain (with power reduced to 100 hp), road and sport , otherwise you can display the current consumption, the kilometers covered or the time driven, for example. Good eyesight is helpful: some of the displays are a bit small. After all: the cockpit is optically dominated by the round rev counter.
The Triumph Street Triple R is light, strong and fast
The seating position is very front-wheel-oriented, but the pressure on the wrist is not excessive over time. The three-cylinder with a displacement of 765 cubic centimeters basically has no problem in getting the Street Triple , which weighs only 187 kilograms, on its toes. It usually goes off very quickly.
You can turn it properly: From around 6,000 rpm the Street Triple pulls noticeably, at 9,400 rpm the maximum torque of 74 Nm is available, the top performance of 118 hp is reached at 12,000 rpm, as the warns Shift light to engage the next higher gear. And then at 13,000 rpm it is over.
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Shift up and down on the Triumph Street Triple R.
The Triumph Street Triple R is brilliant in the curves and is extremely agile.
© Alessio Barbanti / Triumph
Thanks to the well-coordinated automatic gearshift , gear changes go up and down fine and fast. And as vehemently as the Triumph accelerates, so confidently it decelerates again. The extreme maneuverability with which you are on the move is particularly impressive . Even the roundabout is fun. The fact that the maximum speed entered is 241 km / h seems very fantastic. Beyond the 200 km / h mark, however, not much is possible with the undisguised “Streetie”. On top of that, it doesn't make sense, and the rather small rearview mirrors vibrate. The street triple area is clearly the country and federal highways with the most curvy layout possible.
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Triumph Street Triple R: Little space for passengers
In principle there is space for a passenger, but he has to be satisfied with a piece of the seat that is roughly the size of a hand . We preferred not to try how convenient this is in the long run. Was a bit fiddly to our copy of the shut-off : The key had it firmly under arm jerking in the right position to be brought.
An acceptable consumption for the Triumph Street Triple R.
Despite decent speed orgies and taking advantage of the acceleration potential, we arrived at the end of a quite acceptable consumption of 5 , 8 liters per 100 kilometers . 9 . The basic version costs 450 euros , 62 additional accessories can be ordered. Nonetheless, the Street Triple R currently has the best price-performance ratio in this Triumph series. And she's made herself pretty too. (Volker Pfau) * tz.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editorial network.
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