Crystal Balls

[trickywoo]

Which of the following do you think would lose least money over three years and 10k additional miles?

Street Triple 765 RS - £9k 2016 reg 3k miles now. Pretty much all the options fitted e.g. Arrow can, factory heated grips and lighting bling.

Or

GSX S1000 - £8k 2017 reg (latest model with the fuelling sorted and a slipper clutch) practically no miles. Only option is factory fly screen.


I like the Triumph and the Brembo M50 and Ohlins and fancy screen are nice to look at but don't think I really need them.

The Suzuki is definitely more basic but its essentially the K5 GSXR 1000 engine and has 30 bhp more at the wheel. I've had a GSXR 750 for the last 7 years and 20k miles and fancy more torque even though I know the 765 would be plenty fast enough.

Don't really fancy MT10 or S1000R before anyone mentions.

[Andybow]

Street imo

[bogie]

Street should retain more value - its already a year older and a more popular bike

[MrGman]

Street in my opinion.
I've had my street for over 3 years now and covered nearly 17k miles and i think if i sold now i'd lose about 3k on what i bought it new for.
They really do hold value well.

[Soft Top]

If the Street Triple is a 2016 it will be a 675 rather than a 765. The top of the range RX was less than £9k. Is it definitely a 2016?

[Gavia]

Why not just buy the bike you want? The difference in depreciation between the two will probably be nominal anyway.

[trickywoo]

Soft Top said:

If the Street Triple is a 2016 it will be a 675 rather than a 765. The top of the range RX was less than £9k. Is it definitely a 2016?

My mistake. It’s a 66 plate 2017.

[trickywoo]

Gavia said:

Why not just buy the bike you want? The difference in depreciation between the two will probably be nominal anyway.

I don’t know what I want just that I’m keen on a change.

I feel that triumph are breaking new ground with a very high spec, high cost relatively small capacity bike. The new list price of the one I’m looking at is quite a bit over £11k with the options. You can get a base model new for £7k. I can’t think of another bike where the top spec model is 60% more than the base, except maybe Ducati where the base model is still big bucks.

Suppose I’m worried there will be lots of RS models sold and when triumph bring out upgrades (up and down QS, forged wheels etc) the old model will fall into a price pool with base models.

I could of course go for a S model but the old man maths results in the RS looking the best option.

If the 765 wasn’t so close in price to lots of other 1000cc options I’d find it easier to go for it.

[Birky_41]

If you want bang for your buck go gsxs

Honestly having ridden my brothers '17 on road and two seasons around cartagena (1.51s on supercorsa sp's) I was proper impressed

The engine is where it's at with that one. It's got areas that need upgrading though in my opinion

If it were my money I'd have the RS. I prefer triples over IL4s and the trumpy has some really nice features. I'd enjoy thrashing the nuts off it

Couldn't care on depression tbh. If it were me I'd go on what I enjoyed more

My brothers more of a tight arse than me so got the gsxs

[leighz]

think you've already answered the question in your original post

I would love to say 'bang for buck - the gsx is the answer' - but actually in the real world you simply don't need that power.

For me the trumpet would have the right level of 'wrinse the st out of this fking thing' fun for the road.

oh - and for me personally I would get another 1l v-twin over either of those. Grunt wins every time.

Edited by leighz on Saturday 6th January 22:37

[patchb]

Triumph is always going to be more sought after and I'd imagine much easier to sell on when the time comes.

I have ridden the RS and it is a cracking bike, I would say probably the best all round road bike that I've ever ridden. It's a good amount of power for the road, you can use a few gears without going stupid fast, handles great, stops great, wheelies well (and I'm st at wheelies), ergonomics are good etc. It's got a fantastic induction noise as well when you open it up, it is far too quiet at small throttle openings though.