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First proper ride out today with my new bike CERBERUS
I have to admit I was a little bit apprehensive
First picture is CERBERUS waiting patiently for @TEZ217 to arrive so we could get going
Setting off there’s no doubt this is a colossal motorbike
I was pretty tensed up to start with as I hadn’t done a test ride on one
Once under way though I quickly settled into it and it helped that the first part of our journey was about 12miles of dual carriageway
This was followed by a 30mph zone through Ponteland just past the airport
I can report that CERBERUS is very easy in slow moving traffic with the clutch easy to control and feather up behind bimbling car drivers
Along with the fly by wire throttle which is fantastic to use I managed to get through the town with roundabouts and traffic lights without putting my feet down once
So a very confident bike in slow moving stop/start situation’s
Once through Ponteland we were now rolling through the Northumberland countryside and were able to get a bit of a wriggle on once the traffic started to thin out
I have never consciously gave much thought to counter steering in the past as it tends to come naturally to us bikers
But as the twisties got a bit more twisty I found myself pushing on the bars to see what it was capable of
WOW I couldn’t believe that a bike this HEAVY could respond so well to steering input
Dunno what Triumph have done...Feckin witchcraft or something but I am amazed at how well this bike handles
I FECKIN LOVE IT

Forget the name of this place but Tez pulled over as he’d been there before for a family wedding and thought I could do with a ciggy
After going over the border there’s a series of pretty tight left and right bends which can catch you out if you’re not ready for them but my confidence in CERBERUS was increasing with every mile
This part of the ride I had mentally prepared for and after watching YouTube videos of people praising the back brake I took some of these bends with a bit more gusto than maybe I should of
Absolutely gobsmacked at how good this back brake is at scrubbing off speed mid corner the bike staying on line and steering so true that I struggle to get my head round it
I simply can’t believe how well this bike handles it is beyond me how this can be
WELL DONE TRIUMPH


Pit stop at Jedburgh (again)
How to describe the engine
I’m struggling for the words
MONUMENTAL
STAGGERING
UNBELIEVABLE
That’ll do for starters
I can honestly say I’ve never experienced anything like it...it’s beyond powerful it defies belief
The TORQUE and I mean TORQUE has to be experienced to be believed
Greet BIG gobs of it everywhere throughout the range
Once past the ridiculous acceleration of first and second gear the engine finds strength like you wouldn’t believe
No wonder people laugh on those YouTube videos it’s absolutely stunning
Triumph have pinched Scotty’s Dilithium Crystal’s or the Flux capacitor from Back To The Future
The gearbox is like gravy it’s an absolute delight to use both up and down the box
On the down shifts I like to blip the throttle and you can feel the bike rock ever so lightly when you do it
The burbling from the engine when changing down or on the overrun is better than any rock band you can name
The Avon Chrome tyres fitted to this bike are worthy of praise for just being able to forget about them and concentrate on everything else
They’re so confidence inspiring
It was pissing down with rain and when it wasn’t the roads were still wet with hardly a dry line anywhere until we got closer to home
They never tracked once just went where I pointed them
Was worried about the fatness of them with regards to feeling sluggish or difficult to turn in and making the steering feel heavy
Nope nothing to worry about
They’re awesome
Well done Avon
I should mention that because of today’s weather I put CERBERUS into rain mode and left it all day
I’m almost scared to think what this bike will be like in road mode or SPORTS MODE
How to sum up in one word

FECKIN PHENOMENAL

ok that’s two words but I don’t believe that one word could describe this bike it’s simply in a class of its own

I’ve definitely made the right choice

 

Aye I’m worried CERBERUS is gonna get me into trouble

 

Great write up, thanks. Did you have a ghost writer ???

Glad your lovin the bike

 

Does it wheelie?

 

Not with me on it