As a guilty pleasure, I really do love the sporty, middleweight adventure sector. Don’t laugh, because offerings such as Kawasaki’s Versys 650 and Yamaha’s Tracer 7 really do give a serious amount of bang for relatively bugger all in terms of a buck. Sure, I’d always opt for a big-capacity brute given the chance, but whether you fancy touring, going two-up, or even sending it on a Sunday afternoon ride, they do a fairly good job; importantly, for well under the five-figure mark.
Unfortunately, they generally lack that edge we all ride bikes for... you know, that ability to push to a decent limit, or getting that real buzz from cracking the throttle. But now, Triumph says it has created something that’s cheap, comfortable, and – vitally, for us –…
