2010 triumph thunderbird reviews plus#
Triumph did go a couple of steps beyond the “cruiser standard” though but not only adding a tachometer integrated into the speedometer’s face but an LCD that shows a digital fuel gauge plus clock, 2 trip meters, odometer, and range to empty. I for one am not a big fan of this placement as it requires you to take your eyes completely off the road ahead but if Triumph didn’t put it there the potential customers would have complained. Triumph placed the speedometer and gauge cluster in the now traditional place on top the gas tank. Now if you can get a dyed-in-the-wool Harley fanatic to recommend your bike to one of his buddies, you’ve done something right. Very solid”.Īs if that wasn’t enough he then told another old Harley riding buddy that he should go out and look at the Thunderbird as it was a great bike.
He felt that the T-bird was a bike that he might actually consider buying as it felt “very well put together. I let a die-hard Harley rider (that is all he has ever owned) ride the T-bird and when he came back (he had to as I had the keys to his $20k Road Glide) he was grinning ear to ear and his first word was “wow!”. Once again Triumph has hit the nail on the head and created a bike that just feels right. A sportbike can get away with using cheap plastic parts in the name of saving weight a cruiser cannot. Now normally I’m not that picky on paint jobs but on a cruiser the paint (and paint colors) are an integral part of the experience.Īnother very important part of the cruiser experience is fit and finish. I saw no evidence of flaws of any kind in any of the paint. The silver paint had a lot of metallic in it so it really caught the light nicely while the black stripe and pinstripes are laid under the clear coat. The quality of paint is right up there with Harley standards, which is really spectacular. This was proven when my wife, who has never ridden a motorcycle in her life, took one look at the T-bird and said “that looks like a bike that I could ride”. I’m not sure how Triumph pulled off this optical illusion but, until you are either standing right next to it or sitting on it, the T-bird seems more compact than a 1600cc bike should. The first thing I noticed was that the bike looks smaller than it is. OK, so now that the splinter is out of my finger and my hair looks good lets go over the bike shall we? Out came the magnifying lens and the fine-tooth comb. 700 pound bike and the sportbike-to-cruiser transition, I was ready to give it a good preliminary once over. Arrangements were made and I dropped off the Daytona 675 and picked up a silver (with black stripe) Thunderbird. When Triumph called and asked me if I’d like to spend some time on their new 2010 Thunderbird I of course said “no”. It seems that Triumph finally got tired of having sand kicked in its face. Got less than 1200cc? Got more than 2 cylinders? Either way, brother, you don’t fit in and you’re not wanted so go play in the sandbox. Only the biggest, baddest bikes need apply here. Main Street USA on a Saturday night.Īll these places are the domain of that distinctly American of bikes, the cruiser.īut not just any cruiser will do, mind you. Winding country lanes cutting a scenic path beside a stream. Tree covered roads meandering through small towns. We’ve used the popular brand Yuasa as our reference. If you don’t want a Yuasa battery, never fear, you can use our motorcycle battery cross reference chart at the bottom of the page to see the corresponding reference number for other popular makes including Exide and MotoBatt.Īnd if you want to switch to a lightweight Lithium battery (they also almost never go flat), then we’ve got a handy conversion table for you lower down the page too.Wide open two-lane highways stretching out into the distance. If your bike isn’t in our ‘popular’ list, it’ll be in the table below. For popular manufacturers you can click the link below to be taken to their dedicated page.
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