New Triumph 400s

Thanks for the heads up on this Ian.
How does it compare with the RE Hunter performance on paper?
There does not seem a huge difference in style between the Scrambler and street versions.

I generally stick to cruising around 55 - 60mph on any of my naked bikes including the Hunter - too much wind blast beyond that. I've had the Hunter at just over 70 during a few overtakes & I reckon that's about it sat up on a flat road - maybe a bit more down hill lying on the tank, but not much. The Triumph has similar power to my wife's 400 Kwackers, so I reckon would cruise about 90 if you could hang on, and maybe the magic ton if you were flat on the tank. There's not much difference between the Street & the Scrambler, mainly small cosmetics like the separate pillion seat, headlight grille, exhaust & more significantly the larger wheels which raise the seat height a bit too much for me. I've grown to really like my Hunter 350, so I wouldn't replace it with the Triumph, but the Speed 400 has similar power but less weight compared to my Continental GT 650, so I've sold it to make room for a possible replacement. We'll see.................

Maybe......possibly.....the current bikes are for potential buyers to see one in the metal & aren't available for a test ride, but will be sold eventually. Jason reckons he'll get a demo bike in a while, but I'm not too bothered - I bought the Hunter without a test ride, couldn't even sit on it, but at least I got to sit on the Triumph & it felt fine. The weight's a bit less & the power considerably  more so it would be fine for me. One downside, parts are more expensive than the Enfield - I paid £55 for the Hunter rear rack, a rack for the Triumph is £150   

Well. my first bike was a Lambretta LD150, bought for £15 saved up from my Saturday job, just before I left school to start my apprenticeship - couldn't afford a 'proper' motorbike. Six months later I'd saved up £30 & bought a Triumph Tiger Cub. No pictures of that, but some 20 years later I bought another Triumph - a 3TA. It was project & needed a bit of work



Only one picture of the rebuild



and one nearly there



Sold it a few years later to buy a Honda CB750, but here we are, another 25 years on, and at the dealers picking up my 3rd Triumph.



Yep, I settled on the red one, got it back home & tucked up in the garage 

My first job when I got it home was to wash it - it was mizzling on the way home & the roads were wet & mucky. Think some of that muck was grit from the snow & ice we had yesterday.

There have been several people on the meteor site on facebook fitting Hunter ECU /throttle bodies to their Meteors and getting them up to 80mph ,a few have also fitted high rise cams from Hitchcocks  as well as the ECU and achieving 87 mph (on the GPS not indicated ) You're half way there Ian you just need the cam and your Hunter will fly ,maybe you don't need a Triumph, but then again needing and wanting are'nt the same animal  

So will it be the Hunter or Triumph on the Yorkshire Run this year, only time will tell.