Thoughts???
Not my thing but looks like a well screwed together grass-roots motorcycle. And if it gets a few "Hipsters" onto two wheels it can't be bad.
Likewise. I'm just surprised it's taken them so long, hope they haven't missed the boat :^_^
I wouldn't kick it out of the garage! :bad
Makes me even more determined to keep my 955 going because I most certainly don't like where Triumph are going :icon_sad:
Quote from: Bixxer Bob on October 20, 2016, 11:36:15 AM
Not my thing but looks like a well screwed together grass-roots motorcycle. And if it gets a few "Hipsters" onto two wheels it can't be bad.
I'm with Bob. Any machine that entices/encourages people on to two wheels is a good thing imho. And Triumph has the huge advantage that their engine configuration is not 'cookie-cutter' v-twin, so it looks a bit different.
I can't say I really, really want one but it's not a bad looking thing. Am I allowed to say it's more interesting than a thruxton? (Heresy?)
Why not make it, especially if it gets more people into bikes.
...but is it just me or are Triumph's bikes getting progressively a bit on the 'old man' side of things?
Money talks, as they say Nick, and that's where the stats are. Even the Japanese makers are struggling to sell sports bikes, most that rode them now ride GSs and there isn't the uptake in the younger guys. Bonnie's for older British and quirky cruisers for the American market keep them going. I only mentioned the hipsters because they feature in the advertising and it dawned on me "Ah, that's what it's for..." You can wear your cool expensive hipster gear, jump on your cool Triumph Bobber and ride down to Costa to make the GS riders look like dinosaurs. :rfl
I also read that Triumph topped the UK sales this year with around 7.5k bikes sold followed by BMW with 6.5k but those numbers are just from my hazy memory.
Sadly you are right. This whole hipster thing only really works though if you do the bike yourself. Buying a fake pastiche-old bike doesn't really cut it for the younger guys, like those on the advert. So these aren't for hipsters, they are for middle aged wannabees. Bet you the average age purchaser is 50 plus. You are right about the gs brigade. It's a fad that is probably getting close to having run its mainstream course. It all looks a bit dorky and old hat these days.
I still think there is a need for a less friendly, high speed, bad boy monster arsehole dickhead bike in any manufacturers range.
Quote from: Nick Calne on October 21, 2016, 04:01:07 PM
I still think there is a need for a less friendly, high speed, bad boy monster arsehole dickhead bike in any manufacturers range.
:thumbsup :ImaPoser
Bring back the Kawasaki Mach 1 and to hell with the emissions boys.
Quote from: nickjtc on October 21, 2016, 04:04:17 PM
:thumbsup :ImaPoser
Bring back the Kawasaki Mach 1 and to hell with the emissions boys.
Yeah, and scrap the helmet law... lets make bikes exciting again :bad
Quote from: JayDub on October 21, 2016, 08:05:08 PM
Yeah, and scrap the helmet law... lets make bikes exciting again :bad
Did you see BMW's future of motorcycling presentation last week? They have predicted that soon we won't need helmets anymore. ;)
http://youtu.be/h0t6wGFj8lU (http://youtu.be/h0t6wGFj8lU)
A bobber too.
Quote from: Nick Calne on October 21, 2016, 04:01:07 PM
So these aren't for hipsters, they are for middle aged wannabees.
I had to read that twice to check you weren't talking about Big Adventure Bikes :augie
Quote from: ghulst on October 21, 2016, 10:52:53 PM
They have predicted that soon we won't need helmets anymore. ;)
Ah, so BMW thinks that the ground is going to morph into marshmallow softness over the next hundred years...??? :icon_lol:
Quote from: nickjtc on October 22, 2016, 12:40:23 AM
Ah, so BMW thinks that the ground is going to morph into marshmallow softness over the next hundred years...??? :icon_lol:
Perhaps but they do seem to think their potential customers brains have done so already :icon_rolleyes:
Quote from: Nick Calne on October 21, 2016, 04:01:07 PM
Sadly you are right. This whole hipster thing only really works though if you do the bike yourself. Buying a fake pastiche-old bike doesn't really cut it for the younger guys, like those on the advert. So these aren't for hipsters, they are for middle aged wannabees. Bet you the average age purchaser is 50 plus. You are right about the gs brigade. It's a fad that is probably getting close to having run its mainstream course. It all looks a bit dorky and old hat these days.
I still think there is a need for a less friendly, high speed, bad boy monster arsehole dickhead bike in any manufacturers range.
Regarding the hipsters Nick, I'd agree with you but the ones that can actually wield a spanner are few and most want everything now without the work which is where this comes in. Not all I'll grant you. There's a strong custom movement in the London area. As for the monster, I read recently that Triumph have theirs in the freezer ready to be thawed out and updated if ever the need arises. I think they were referring to their Blackbird copy that never happened.
I watched Bike World on one of the obscure channels last night and was astonished at the electronics kit on the latest wave of 1 litre sports bikes though.
Want everything now, can't do work, all a bit style over substance? Surely not. No young people, least of all the hipster crowd, are like that at all! :ImaPoser
Quote from: Nick Calne on October 23, 2016, 09:37:46 PM
Want everything now, can't do work, all a bit style over substance? Surely not. No young people, least of all the hipster crowd, are like that at all! :ImaPoser
:thumbsup
Why would I pay that kind of money for something I could build with a clapped out Bonnie and $3000? Oh right we live in a world where our young people never had a day of shop in their lives and aspire to buy things not build them. It will sell to the Hipsters but I fear they probably expect it to be comfortable and practical as well rather than a bar hopper.