Trying to justify a 2nd bike...

As is probably obvious from my postings I am the biggest Thruxton fanboy, but I think the final edition is very poor value. It is the rs with the same green that was used on the r, like mine. It has no upgrades or changes from the standard rs. You are paying around a £900 premium for the green paint and gold writing instead of a badge. Similar with the chrome edition.
Looks great, best looking version of the rs spec, they really mucked up some of the earlier ones in my opinion, but a hell of a price.
on the road feel and performance there is little or nothing you’d notice day to day between the r, rs and even the TFC.
But then again, just get it bought

Great points, hence give been thinking about possibly just getting a second hand RS, either the black, the green/silver one or the ton up version, possibly they'll come with extras and already taken a hit on them being new so I won't lose my ass on depreciation...

I have a BMW r1250rs for touring etc but the Thruxton is the smiles per mile bike for evening bimbles and days out. Find an rs or even a late r in the colour you want and you won’t regret it.

Welcome to bikeaholics anonymous...

Hello, like many other posters I also have a problem

If you really like that one, just go for it...yes you may lose a bit in depreciation but if it's a keeper, which it probably will be as it doesn't sound like you'll be chopping it in every x years then at least you'll have the peace of mind that you ran it in, no muppets have been having their way with it etc.

Bikes do breed btw...

If you buy special bikes/limiteds etc the depreciations tends to be slower and older bikes don't really depreciate so I tend to view them as an inflation linked wealth store when wearing the justification hat If you need the money they are a lot easier to sell than a car and much less money a year to own. I try to use all of mine and tend to tax a couple on DD a month, then cancel and tax the next couple so they all get some rotation. Classics are even better as no tax.

Oh and Chip Chap, we have similar taste in bikes lol, you had the F4 1078 and we both have CBX's

Neither, if you want an RS then the ton up edition IMO is the only decent paintjob, don't like the half/half jobbies, i'm obviously a bit biased but I think they lost all the best colours when they dropped the R.
If you're worried about depreciation then an R would fit the bill, I still see bikes advertised for barely any less than when I bought mine 4 yrs ago, although because I actually put miles on mine it probably wouldn't be worth much, which is fine as its my forever bike.
As already said with the right mods there is basically no difference in the riding experience between all the Thruxton's, I did as you mentioned, got the one I liked the look of with all the accessories I wanted already fitted.

You could do worse than buy a standard R and have it mapped on a Dyno with a decat or new headers and less restrictive silencers. These engines respond really well to good tuning.
There's plenty of loved used ones that come for about £7 or £8k.

I think we all know why, because Triumph do like to squeeze their customers to the max of late haha...

I hear you on the TFC, think I've missed a cracker with only 1500 miles on it at £15k last week, be interested to see one of these in the flesh up close tbh...

2 bikes doesn't make sense.
You'd need at least one for daily bop about duties, a nice classic, something for off road, something sporty, something in pieces as a project, something for track days...

Ah Skyman, you’ve been missed over on TZ, nice bike that.

Missed a lovely Ton up version today with everything on it because I didn’t follow up on it.

Also got some feelers out on a couple of TFC’ s but ones done 9500 miles and they want top a good deal of coin for it.

Poor fella didn't have 7 motorbikes. A moment of reflection for him please.