In the late 1990s Triumph decided to get itself a piece of the hard-edged sportsbike market. How did it all work out? ROB SMITH from Motorcycle Trader mag tells the story...
There's no doubt that when Triumph launched the T595 Daytona in 1997 priced at $17,990 a lot of people thought that here at last was a British motorcycle capable of chasing down both the Japanese and Italian competition and giving them a bloody good Old Trafford Road-style kicking. The fact is it didn't happen - and in truth it's unlikely to happen - ever.
Did that really matter? No - not really, the T595 has much to commend it to those who couldn't give a stuff about a second or two at the track. However a series of teething problems threatened the reputation of this important model at a crucial time. Triumph, to its credit, responded by taking the problems on the chin and initiating a recall and stopped the threat in its tracks. More on this later.
Ostensibly the T595 had a two-year model life from 1997 until 1998 but in fact ran with only subtle performance changes as the 955i for a further three years.
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