ROUNDING OFF
TRIUMPH SPEED TRIPLE RR & YAMAHA XSR900 GP
Old dogs, new tricks...
By the end of the day, both of us were well and truly satisfied with Bour day’s riding, having spent it buzzing around my local roads and messing about on a runway. Maybe we’d have felt differently if we’d thrown a track day or evening in too, but we didn’t, so we’ll never know. That said, Bruce rode the XSR 900GP on track at its launch, and I rode the Speed Triple RR on track at its launch, and we both reported that they were perfectly adequate at scratching out the laps without any fuss. The question in my mind is whether these two bikes are the start of anew genre of bikes or if it’s just two manufacturers taking full advantage of some existing platforms that are already in their ranges and, with a very light touch, producing some niche bikes to grab a few extra sales.