Featured Speedmaster Meet Nudger

Is Nudger of Red Indian decent?
Does he not like his image being captured
. One ffing photo, is all we get, after false starts with trailers, and build ups that would shame the pre World Cup show.
One photo.
Your sure?

 

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Absolutely gorgeous. Many safe miles!

 

Love it...

 

Very nice mate and as you say the right colour, a pleasant shade of black...

 

Great lookin ride!

 

Nice Dilli, and I see you have added a towbar for the trailer.
I have loved this model from the get go and so happy to see other likeminded souls

 

Well. Watched this thread for a while. Finally made the jump and traded my Rocket 111 for a 2018 speedmaster. Great service from Triumph York. Had the bike for a week now, done 1000 miles all over lakes and round about. Oh dear! How I miss my rocket. Speed, torque, comfort, handling and the list goes on. Had my rocket for about 5 years and loved it, just getting a bit heavy to lug around, into garage etc.
I will crack on with the speedmaster, but think I have dropped a clanger.

 

Let's hope you grow in to it mate. I've ridden both and overall I prefer the Speedmaster for its fit, but for taller chaps I can understand why the Rocket would appeal and be a gas with all that extra power across the full range.

 

I agree with Dilli, coming of a bike like a rocket will be difficult to replace the power, speed etc..... I hope you do get it on with speedmaster as it is a cracking bike. My compromise was to keep my thunderbird LT which is such a different ride to the speedmaster. Stick with it mate.
Wessa

 

Dilligaf.
Nice one. Would have been Blue.
Enjoy
Joe

 

Cheers Wessa. I will be sticking with it, got to get used to it really. I think I’m just so used to the sheer grunt in any gear. Before the rocket I had a Harley V rod, loved it! But started to have problems mechanically, so nipped it in the bud and bought something I thought would match it in power and grunt. How wrong I was, the rocket blew it out of the water in every way. I fell in love with the rocket, but after a new hip I was struggling to manage it at slow speeds and moving it around my garage. Don’t get me wrong I love the way the speedmaster looks, that’s what pushed me in it’s direction. I test rode it before I purchased, and liked it very much, just a few more miles on it and was starting to miss the big bugger. Never mind, time will tell.

 

I used to have a Daytona 955i CE alongside my Trident 900 a few years ago. Swapping back to the Trident after a few rides on the Daytona meant that overtaking, in particular, had to be treated with a little caution, even though the Trident goes very well. But circa 50% more power and less weight makes quite a difference to performance an handling etc.
You will get used to it - I hardly miss my Daytona nowadays.
Oh feck!! Who am I kidding??

SIGH!

 

Beautiful