View Full Version : Triumph 675....
Juvenilerider
31-01-2006, 07:54 AM
When are they out? I followed one through Chelmsford town centre today and tried to race it only to be left with the biggest smile on my face as he nailed the throttle open :D obviously I would of won, but he had supercorsas (as standard) and I know they aren't very good in the damp but... shutup!
If anyone has £7000 to lend/give me, please do!!!!!
Oh sweet Jebus it's the most beautiful thing on the planet....
http://www.flitwickmotorcycles.co.uk/Images/new_added/Day675_000.jpg
the captain
31-01-2006, 10:17 AM
im asuming some of the bikes are being delivered already, just had a look in bike magazine and theres no mention of an official release date...but youre right, they are so bloody gorgeous!!!.......had a sit on the one at the NEC and its so little, you could throw that thing around like a BMX, and all the reviews say the same.....(obviously not comparing it to a BMX, that was my journalistic input)
and for £7200 its a bargain...........maybe......no.....yes, yes it is!!!!
Juvenilerider
31-01-2006, 10:32 AM
Yeah it's TINY, it's not much bigger than my bike!
It's so good looking and sounds so good even with the standard pipes!
I'm not sure whether it might of been a Journalist or someone riding it because i'm sure they don't come out for a few months, i want one though! :D
the captain
31-01-2006, 10:35 AM
the gun metal one looks so nice, but like the guy writing the article said, its gonna be the popular choice. i dont care id still go for it!
Juvenilerider
31-01-2006, 10:38 AM
I'd have it bright pink with yellow and green spots and purple stripes, I just want one ha
the captain
31-01-2006, 10:42 AM
ha ha ha.......nice! think youve summed up exactly what someone would do just to have something that bad!!
harriebird
31-01-2006, 11:23 AM
is the gunmetal one the same as black? coz the blackish one :laugh2 :love1 is really really lovely
but not as nice as a 748 ha
Juvenilerider
31-01-2006, 11:46 AM
is the gunmetal one the same as black? coz the blackish one :laugh2 :love1 is really really lovely
but not as nice as a 748 ha
yeah thats the one... and I hate to say it, but this is definately putting up a fight against the 748/916
harriebird
31-01-2006, 11:48 AM
maybe for you but not for me, I am getting closer and closer all the time to going for one this year arghhhhhhhhh
the captain
31-01-2006, 12:22 PM
have you had a go on the bike youre after harrie?
harriebird
31-01-2006, 12:24 PM
no not yet, i was meant to go and check out a couple in rayleigh on saturday but i had a really bad feeling of impending doom as i was flying down the a12 and decided not to go..... think it was my bank balance telling me to get real !
might try again this saturday and see if the stars are going to let me go this time!
the captain
31-01-2006, 12:30 PM
cool...do it......i think you might get on okay with it, a few friends of mine who have owned them didnt like them because the bike was so sure of itself.
You know, good in corners, no hint of twitching
only draw back i know of is theyre not the most comfortable of bikes, hard on the back and knees, so maybe some adjustable rearsets to make things easier could be a sound second investment
harriebird
31-01-2006, 12:38 PM
the seat height is tiny, 790mm compared to 825 for the average gsxr, so am hoping that i won't have too many knee issues! i can't wait to have a go on one but am a bit scared too becasuse i am totally in awe of them.
but i had a really really good ride on sunday, felt the happiest i have ever felt on the twisties even though i still wasn't going quick and i really want to have a daft impractical bike before i hit 30!!!!!! and babies start to come on the agenda!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo we need more greyhounds!
Juvenilerider
31-01-2006, 12:40 PM
the seat height is tiny, 790mm compared to 825 for the average gsxr, so am hoping that i won't have too many knee issues! i can't wait to have a go on one but am a bit scared too becasuse i am totally in awe of them.
but i had a really really good ride on sunday, felt the happiest i have ever felt on the twisties even though i still wasn't going quick and i really want to have a daft impractical bike before i hit 30!!!!!! and babies start to come on the agenda!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo we need more greyhounds!
You heard the lady! GET HER SOME GREYHOUNDS!
harriebird
31-01-2006, 12:43 PM
actually after this weekend a 748 would be a bargain compared to an injured dog:grin2
anyway :offtopic:
mmm the 675 looks lovely bonnett
Juvenilerider
31-01-2006, 12:44 PM
I've just been looking at the spec for the 675, its got probably the smallest petrol tank ever, 17.4 litres, inc. reserve! that's less than VFR
the captain
31-01-2006, 12:46 PM
the seat height is tiny, 790mm compared to 825 for the average gsxr, so am hoping that i won't have too many knee issues! i can't wait to have a go on one but am a bit scared too becasuse i am totally in awe of them.!
you should definitly be okay then, go get it!!!!
Juvenilerider
31-01-2006, 12:46 PM
you should definitly be okay then, go get it!!!!
See!!
If enough of us say it often will you buy it?
harriebird
31-01-2006, 12:48 PM
if i go and look on a totally out-of-character "weak-willed" day then yes i would probably end up buying one.
sigh.
the captain
31-01-2006, 12:49 PM
THEY SAY SUBLIMINAL MESSAGES buy it DONT WORK, BUT I THINK buy it THERES DEFINITLY SOMETHING IN buy it IT, I MEAN, THERES SO MUCH buy it ABOUT THE HUMAN BRAIN WE DONT buy it KNOW, WE ONLY USE buy it ABOUT %20 OF IT!!!
Juvenilerider
31-01-2006, 12:49 PM
What if you go and look, take it for a test ride, and meet us on the way somewhere? :D
harriebird
31-01-2006, 12:58 PM
ok, i'll meet you on saturday, the sun's out and i fancy a yellow bike
blimey shane i don't know what you said but suddenly i feel like buying a bike.... :grin2 :grin2 :grin2
it's almost like there was one of those weird subliminal message thingys in there.....:laugh2
and i can divert my blue flame and shoes fund to the 748 fund....total balance £10.00 ha ha
the captain
31-01-2006, 01:03 PM
LOL......thats weird!!
a whole tenner eh....it all adds up!!!
Juvenilerider
31-01-2006, 01:05 PM
That'll buy you a spark plug or something :D Sell the car, :D
the captain
31-01-2006, 01:06 PM
sell everything.....the car, the furniture, your parents......anything!!!!!
Juvenilerider
31-01-2006, 01:08 PM
anything and everything, kidneys, you only need one of those, i reckon you could live with one lung, pretty sure you can sell yourself to science for loads of money and still live a healthly life!
Jetski
31-01-2006, 01:09 PM
LMAO!! Great thread :D
Love the 675 :D I'd have one (after I win the euromillions on Friday... in fact sod it, i'll buy the factory for me and I'll buy mick the SP2 factory and a couple of MV Augustas for commuting to our other houses) :D
Anyway, harriechick, off topic or not - you on a 748 looking and feeling the mutts nuts (in a totally hyperthetical sense I might add! Sorry mr greyhound!).
How could you say no on a sensible day, let alone any other! :D
Juvenilerider
31-01-2006, 01:11 PM
LMAO!! Great thread :D
Love the 675 :D I'd have one (after I win the euromillions on Friday... in fact sod it, i'll buy the factory for me and I'll buy mick the SP2 factory and a couple of MV Augustas for commuting to our other houses) :D
Anyway, harriechick, off topic or not - you on a 748 looking and feeling the mutts nuts (in a totally hyperthetical sense I might add! Sorry mr greyhound!).
How could you say no on a sensible day, let alone any other! :D
Mrs. President may I please have an SP2 aswell please Mrs. President
harriebird
31-01-2006, 01:17 PM
you on a 748 looking and feeling the mutts nuts (in a totally hyperthetical sense I might add! Sorry mr greyhound!).
not a problem, my greyhound doesn't have any, they chop em off when they re-home them :eek:
ooooh hooooo i'm all excited about a yellow bike now. fortunately i will have no need for new leathers coz they're black! ha ha ha! i foresee much ass-shaking on the bypasses!!!
Juvenilerider
31-01-2006, 01:19 PM
i foresee much ass-shaking on the bypasses!!!
and thunderous 140mph fly-bys
harriebird
31-01-2006, 01:27 PM
and thunderous 140mph fly-bys
i don't do thunderous, are you calling me fat :grin2
Juvenilerider
31-01-2006, 01:32 PM
i don't do thunderous, are you calling me fat :grin2
yes - yes i'm that stupid ha
harriebird
31-01-2006, 01:36 PM
s'ok, i'll have no money for food anyway :grin2
Jetski
31-01-2006, 02:07 PM
Don't need food - your new bike will give you all the sustenance you'll need :D
EverSoSlightlyFasterThanU
31-01-2006, 03:33 PM
can we do 165mph fly_bys
Juvenilerider
31-01-2006, 03:37 PM
can we do 165mph fly_bys
yes, yes we can, next summer we can race 8 abredth across the bypasses at 165mph and see who brakes last :D
harriebird
31-01-2006, 03:38 PM
hint, it won't be me
Juvenilerider
31-01-2006, 03:42 PM
hint, it won't be me
Won't be me either, i could brake first and still get so much drive out the roundabout on the SP everyone would cry and get melted
That picture has made my day.
Effort
31-01-2006, 08:18 PM
i've spotted it too, bonnet. say it in tile kiln. was the orange spec one. fabulousssssss.......
mingmingmo
31-01-2006, 09:48 PM
accrding to bike it is the best one they have doen with styles and performance. track dn road both are as toip quality as they sed in the october issue. if it is 700 its alot of money for the bike but its worth it. i mean its british 600 nd it yellow :P :)
Juvenilerider
04-02-2006, 06:54 PM
Oh yes, yes i did ride one with one today, you can all touch me, just... que up! :D ITS ****ING GORGEOUS!!
I saw one in Braintree so chased it, and a 636 all the way Ongar Motorcycles to ask the geezer what he thought of it, i can't believe it's that good looking, it's SO fast
Well I am hoping to be working for Triumph this year (in my year out) and shall be investigating how much discount I can get exactly!!! :-) That's if I don't get to lift a 675, which are insanely beautiful and sound even better with race exhausts on [saw a few black ones (strange considering they don't make a black one) whizzing around being tested before I went in for my initial tests] :-) So I'm back on monday for next stage and shall be doing some more drooling over all the bikes mainly being teh 675!
Juvenilerider
04-02-2006, 08:14 PM
Well I am hoping to be working for Triumph this year (in my year out) and shall be investigating how much discount I can get exactly!!! :-) That's if I don't get to lift a 675, which are insanely beautiful and sound even better with race exhausts on [saw a few black ones (strange considering they don't make a black one) whizzing around being tested before I went in for my initial tests] :-) So I'm back on monday for next stage and shall be doing some more drooling over all the bikes mainly being teh 675!
HIRE ME!
Haha!!!
'fraid not!! I'm only going to be working there for a year and so will be in no position to hire people! Unless u will work for nothing...?! :) But possibly in another few years if they have me back I can see what there is! :)
And I found out today (quick turn around) that they want me back for the final interviews, so fingers crossed!
Juvenilerider
07-02-2006, 08:03 PM
Haha!!!
'fraid not!! I'm only going to be working there for a year and so will be in no position to hire people! Unless u will work for nothing...?! :) But possibly in another few years if they have me back I can see what there is! :)
And I found out today (quick turn around) that they want me back for the final interviews, so fingers crossed!
OFCOURSE ILL WORK FOR NOTHING! DURRR! ha :D
In that case, how good are u at making tea?? :)
EverSoSlightlyFasterThanU
07-02-2006, 11:10 PM
how eva good he is im 10 time better, and im better looking and more clevara
Gazdaman
08-02-2006, 12:49 AM
Already one of those 675s has been written off, and one's been stolen. Someone stole a demo bike from a dealer in middlesex. Been anywhere near middlesex recently Sam?
Gaz
Juvenilerider
08-02-2006, 07:48 AM
Middlewhere? :D I wish I had the confidence to steal one and get away with it
haha!
well i shall wait and see if i get it and then if i'm allowed to havea PA/tea maker! :)
I live in middlesex... but wasn't me! honest! :) although being sat right in front of one in the reception waiting to go in was very tempting!
Juvenilerider
08-02-2006, 01:43 PM
Where abouts are they based?
Perhaps not get me a job, but just the security codes for the alarms? ha
haha! I'll be an undergrad on an industrial placement... doubt they'll be going giving me any important security codes!!! Think your best bet is to just wait outside the factory and wait until they go testing (on the A5)! :)
they're based in Hinckley in Leicestershire. They have two main factories up there and that's it! They do factory tours if u book. Well worth going if you are into that sort of thing. It's quite interesting how they make their bikes in order to compete with the Japanese, yet still be quite small due to lower funding. They also check every bike that comes out of the factory and make all of them on one line! Apart from the Rocket III engine, which is too big for the main engine production line! Like I said, it's very cool indeed and I only got a smaller factory tour because of time, but the normal one is much longer.
Juvenilerider
08-02-2006, 02:49 PM
Are there many places to say... ambush a test rider along that route?
EverSoSlightlyFasterThanU
08-02-2006, 03:49 PM
with a shotgun
Juvenilerider
08-02-2006, 03:59 PM
Too risky - don't wanna damage the bike
EverSoSlightlyFasterThanU
08-02-2006, 03:59 PM
ok then with the bitch
Juvenilerider
08-02-2006, 04:00 PM
Right sounds like a plan, so is it doable jims? :D
I am saying nothing seeing as I haven't got the job yet and u never know who reads these forums! :)
All I will say is that if you have seen the latest MCN with the Tiger tests in it... well that roundabout is the one right outside the main factory, so it's hardly top secret, high security testing...
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