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I'm glad Triumph is doing well... they make well thought out quality bikes for the real world.



The Japanese give you either



a) their liter bike and 600 race replicas, fantastic amazing track bikes that are becomng increasingly irrelevant for road use



or



b) the rest of their lineups, 57 varieties of banality kludged together from the parts bins,

 

[49605]

Bingo, umarth hits the nail on the head!



I've been looking at the little V Strom, no doubt it's a sturdy reliable motorcycle but they didn't exactly give it the same attention to detail the GSX R got, did they?



A great engine tied to an injection molded frame and parts bin components