![]() As a result of that displacement, the torque’s the thing. … as well it should, given the Triumph’s big displacement advantage over those bikes. As I was riding it, I was thinking, this feels almost as strong as a Yamaha MT-07 or Suzuki SV650 on top… Still not a lot, but still plenty for real-world fun– and Triumph’s claimed numbers for this bike are usually really close to what our dyno says: The 54-horse claim for the previous engine wound up being 52.6 rear-wheel hp, and the butt dyno thinks the new engine will be close to 65. MO heaped tons of praise on both of these bikes when they first appeared, they’ve been big successes for Triumph, and so why wouldn’t they go ahead and stoke the fire with tasty new upgrades? Powerīiggest change would be the addition of quite a bit of horsepower – Triumph puts it at 18%, and the bike now makes a claimed 65 hp instead of the previous 54 at 5900 rpm. “Yes,” says Nick, “I think I’m warmed up enough to switch out of Rain Mode now.” “These work well at that kind of sedate pace,” I observed. Torquey little machines like these, with their upright ergonomics, are near-perfect tools for unwinding country backroads, and though 65 horsepower isn’t a lot, it is a lot more than before, and it usually feels like plenty as you roll the throttle to the stop at every exit, with 270-degree crankshaft sounds blatting from the tailpipes, working the new brakes and front fork hard.Īfter we’d wound our way through the second or third excellent section of those fast curves, we pulled over at a junction to wait for the rest of the group, with the molten sides of our bootsoles smoldering. In some shady spots a little dampness lingered long into the afternoon, so a bit of caution was advised. Brushed alloy headlight brackets, wheels and various bits are all new. Korosi Red is nice, too, but it and Ironstone will cost you a bit more than the $9,300 Black version. That lasted a while, and it was lovely, but there’s something in guys like Nick that requires them to go slightly quicker than whatever is in their mirrors, if only briefly, to make a point. That morning Nick gave us a nice little pep talk, warning about the damp, slick cobblestones, etc., and encouraging us to embrace the relaxed, casual nature of the new Street Twin and Street Scrambler, and how lovely it was going to be to take in the sights of rural Portugal rather than race through them. On Day Two, the rain had stopped, the roads were drying, and our Official Triumph Guide became a Brit called Nick Plumb, former Paris-Dakar regular. Semi-lost and wandering along, I was all set to conclude I couldn’t tell much difference between new and old. On the first day we rode the new bikes from Cascais, Portugal, down the road to Lisbon in the rain. The main difference between the 2016 Street Twin and 2017 Street Scrambler, and the new 2019 versions of each, is that my Aerostich Roadcrafter suit is much snugger when riding the new ones.
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