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10-06-2010, 05:50 PM
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10-07-2010, 03:00 PM
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Small changes, lead to a little more performance, but those headlights. Jury's out...
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But those lights... I believe when people use the word "Iconic" in description of a motorcycle or feature, you need to keep that feature, or close to it, as it is so model identified. They could have gone with Yamaha style projector beam headlights, with a nice "Angle Eye" halo... But now, the bike looks more like something that was crashed, and stripped (er, which I guess is going back to it's roots...) But the twin round lights are really the identifier, and Triumph pretty much owned that feature (because not enough Moto Morini's are sold to matter) Changing the frame seems, to me, a bit of a waste of time, as I don't remember hearing anyone complaining about terrible handling... And the weight savings were certainly not worth all the hours of design time and testing... But, what do I know? It may have been necessary for something other than "Change for Change's sake"; but right now, that's what it looks like... A large visual clue that it's not the old model, and a reason for the "well heeled" to HAVE to change to the new model. But, the question one always has to ask after a refresh/redesign of a long favored model is... "Do I prefer this one to the old one?" And as an engineer and designer in the industry, I always have to ask, what improvements are the changes supposed to engender? Did the succeed? As a business decision was the money and time well spent... Anyway, it's a pretty conservative restyle... for obvious reasons... But if I bought one for the extra torque, I'd pull those headlights pretty sharpish, and don some which better suite the character of the bike... Now that I think about it... Something like the Buell's lights (XB), but done a-la-Triumph would have been better. That way, I'd get the look, and the additional power... Fly'n Brian |
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10-07-2010, 04:20 PM
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That tanks a nutcracker, ever read about "open Book" fractures? it's where you hit a tank like that and your pelvis cracks open like a book......
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