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Smitty wrote:

GPX.Lainie wrote: The only problem with the 675 I think is the color scheme. I dislike all three colors it comes in. .

Lainie
have you seen one in the flesh...?
they look better up close than in a mag
mind you...the charcoal one did nothing for me
but the red and pale gold is nice
imho of course

cheers

No mate I haven't as yet. I really do not like red as a color full stop so that's a no no. I think I will go take a good look cause yes your right you never know

Case in point I got more looks on its testride than I did on the 14

Now that would of hurt [/quote]

The red looks pretty good. It looks very like a Ducati in red. Don't think much of the yellow or grey. No doubt a black one will be out next year.

I looked up close at one in PS a few weeks ago...

It looks nice.... but it also looks very wee.... very wee indeed.... not the height so much, but it was very very skinny.... It looks like all the popular designs rolled into one... Looks very schmick.... I rode next to one down elizabeth street and it sure sounded nice....

In the end it reminded me of the Mito....

I haven't ridden one, but it's a nice looking bike. That said I'd keep away as triumph don't have a very good reliability track reckord. As far as 600s go it's the most powerful (as it should be with a 76cc advantage), but give me a jap bike any day. My mate who's from England and has been in the bike industry for around 30years isn't keen on the triumphs either. Just my 2cents.

My mate who's from England and has been in the bike industry for around 30years isn't keen on the triumphs either

anything from eur just costs more.........i've seen some 625cc or whatever the first verison of the bike before on ebay and tradingpost 6 months ago and they were selling like 9k - 10k, with 8k km on them, don't know why they sell so cheap,

rather i paid more for the zx636r

mmamster wrote:Not sure - the guy a peter stevens triumph reckoned it was the 3 cylinder layout which let them make it that slim. By comparison the GSXR feels fat as, so does the Kwaka. I haven't tried an R6.

According to latest " BIKE " mag Triumph use cast sections welded together to make the frame which gives advantage of a slimmer design;they say this frame will fit inside the 650 frame!and less weight whole bike quoted 189.6kg wet! Power,how can a 600cc compete with 675 for torque infact 675 is so good in their roll on test that from 40-120mph its 11.6seconds is the same as the R1!(ZX6R is 12.7sec)
hmm test ride coming up or wait for 07 ZX6R....

I test rode on recently, very impressed and i like the gold colour. CBF waiting for them to get here, got something else instead..