2011 Triumph Daytona

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Triumph has been a bi-word for British engineering since its founding in 1884. Often considered the creator of the modern motorcycle and the biggest producer for allied support during WWI, their bikes were always a notch above the Japanese and American competors in comfort and longevity. America even became obsessed when Marlon Brando rode a Thunderbird 6T in The Wild One at the height of the teenage counterculture of the 1950's. After bankruptcy in the 1980's and a re-emergence under a new company, a need to branch out from traditional motorcycles was necessary. The Triumph Daytona 675 development started in 2000 following the launch of the TT600. The TT600 represented Triumph's first modern middle weight sports motorcycle. A notable technical decision was the selection of a three cylinder engine as the power plant, instead of the normal four cylinder used by the TT600 and the other 600 cc supersport motorcycles Specs of the Daytona 675 include: Aluminium Beanm / Twin Spar Chassis, Multipoint Sequential Fuel Injection, Digital Ignition, 6-speed close ratio multi-plate wet clutch gearbox, Front USD forks with adjustable preload, rebound, and high/low speed compression damping (120mm travel), Rear Monoshock with piggy back resevior (130mm rear wheel travel), twin floating 308mm disc brakes with Nissin 4 Piston Calipers in front and a single 220mm disc with Single Piston Nissin Caliper in back, a weight of 356lbs (Dry) / 407lbs (Wet) and an output of 124 HP @12,600rpm / 53 lb-ft @11,700 rpm 0 - 60 comes in 3.2 seconds and a top speed of 155 mph makes the Daytona a great circut rider as well as a hell of a streetbike! A 24-Hour test by Performance Bikes Magazine even pitted the 675 against a Suzuki GSX-R750 showing that, even though it was of lower engine capacity and power, it was 0.7 seconds a lap faster.