TRIUMPH STREET TRIPLE 765 S {2017-on} Review

New Triumph Street Triple~S 2017

'The entry-level Street Triple S is cheap, basic… and still as much fun as you can have with your leathers on. Or off, for that matter.'

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On paper, the down-spec S is the least desirable of the three Street Triples – but don’t be fooled into thinking what you want is what you need. Sometimes less is more and, with the Street Triple S, it’s less money and more fun

>Ride Quality & Brakes

The super-smooth fuelling is let down by savage traction control. There’s an option to turn it off, but the intervention in Road mode (the other option is Rain) is intrusive; even just pulling lustily away from traffic lights can have the motor dropping dead momentarily – long enough for you to think there’s something actually wrong.

The saddle height has increased from 800mm to 810mm. The bike weighs 166kg and fuel tank capacity is 17.4 litres.

For braking, the Street Triple S gets dual 310mm discs clamped to Nissin 2-piston calipers at the front and a 220mmdisc with Brembo single-piston caliper at the back. For traction, there are Pirelli Diablo Rossa Corsa 120/70 R17 and 180/55 R17 tyres.

The Street Triple will go against the Ducati Monster 821, Kawasaki Z900 and newly launched Aprilia Shiver 900.


>Engine

The beating heart of the all three Street Triples is the 765cc motor. It’s a delicious creation, smooth as whipped cream, taking all the bottom end whump and midrange surge of the original 104bhp 675 Street Trip, and layering on even more of both. And while the 111bhp S definitely lacks the top end rush of the 126bhp RS, for general road riding it actually makes the S the better choice. Because the RS has a bad-tempered side; the motor plays nicely up to 7000rpm, then does a Jekyll and Hyde thing, loses its rag completely and becomes a potential handful. It’s not a playful engine, it’s deadly serious



The Street Triple S comes with a 765cc in-line three-cylinder motor that delivers 113PS @ 11,250rpm and 73Nm of torque @ 9,100rpm. That's a 6.6 percent increase in power and 7.3 percent increase in torque from the previous 675cc model sold internationally. Triumph promises this time around India will get the full-power model and not a detuned one. The new bike now features ride-by-wire, traction control and two power modes – Road and Rain.

>Build Quality & Reliability

Ride quality is clearly a step below the RS’ Öhlins and a constant low frequency drumming over bumps accompanies a 40mph ride in town. But the edges are rounded off and it doesn’t feel cheap – despite costing considerably less than the RS

>Equipment
While the design of the bike remains similar to the outgoing model, it looks sharper and more compact thanks to a redesign that focusses on mass centralisation. The exhaust has been moved closer to the engine. The bike gets new headlamps with integrated LED DRLs and a new LCD instrument console. The Street Triple R and RS meanwhile get a full-colour TFT instrument console with switchable screens.

                                                                                                                 

   Of the trio of Street Triple models, the S model comes with more basic suspension, non-radial calipers, boring LCD clocks, and only a couple of engine/TC modes. The base-spec, Street Triple, in many ways though, is a more successful package than the RS.

>Ex-showroom Price including {GST} - INR 8,71,500

>On-Road Price (Delhi) - Rs 9.67 lakhs (approx.)

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