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Neale Bayly
05/12/2008 - 02:28 PM
Charlotte, N.C.
Testing in the countryside around the Barber museum, we were blessed with a superb variety of roads, which really put the ST to test at times. (Photo: Tom Riles) ยป More Photos
With the cream of the world’s press yucking it up in South Africa, and truly stuck at home thanks to misplacing my travel documents, it wasn’t until I got a phone call from Jim Callaghan to join him in Alabama this spring that I got my chance to test the new Triumph Sprint ST. And, after putting in some hard miles out on the lightly trafficked country roads around the Barber museum, I am extremely happy to have missed the massive amount of traveling needed to switch continents.
The original Sprint ST came to us at the end of ’98 as an all-new for ‘99 model, replacing the old modular frame, carbureted 885cc Sprint. It was an instant hit, garnering praise from most everyone that rode it, and for 2002 it gained a new more powerful engine. I spent some time touring on this version and greatly enjoyed the versatility of the big triple. It was comfortable, powerful and devoured the miles with ease, but sport bike it was not. Continuing in this guise till last year, the original Sprint ST has enjoyed
So what in the world is going on over there in the land of the stiff upper lip old chap? The world’s most powerful production cruiser in the shape of the Rocket III, a revised mental case with the new hooligan Speed Triple, a real retro Thruxton café racer; even the relatively plain Jane Daytona middleweight has grown some serious huoevos to become a fire-breathing, second gear wheelie pulling monster. Well, somebody must be putting something in the tea, or perhaps the water system, because the new Sprint ST has been infected with the same madness the rest of the range has come down with.
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