Originally Posted by adventure950

I had one for a while and do not have a good memory of it, around 2002/3, as a do everything bike, the engine is strong and fairly reliable, but they are very top heavy and the front end is far too soft, the gear lever disappeared on a gravel road - through road vibration I suppose, leaving me with a bit of a ride home with no gear lever ! but worse of all after riding another light gravel road with a few potholes on another occasion over Half a dozen spokes in the rear wheel cracked and then parted company with the rim - the result showed up as soon as I got onto a tarmac road and started winding on a little the bike started with a gentle weave and ended up in a rather exciting sideways movement of the rear end and a total loss of control as it felt like the rear end had blown out - it was just a rather loose rim - that along with loss of my bowels as I entered and got to the apex of the first sweeping bend I went in to this was on a bike i bought from new and had less than 4 months use so about 4 or 5000 mile. (wheel rebuilt under warranty) - but its a bike I never really grew to love nor have great confidence in - some love them though but it was never the one for me - it went exchanged for a ktm 950 which was a 1000 years ahead of the triumph in every respect. As a daily hack they are I suppose fine though.