OldEssexMan
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Hi all at Triumphtalk.com. I have a Gen2 XRt that I have owned for three years. I bought it in January 2021 with 11,000 miles on the clock and it now has 67,500 miles showing.
I have been riding since 1966 on a variety of machines starting with old British bikes - actually I started on a 125 Vespa! - but then had a succession of Brit iron, BSA, AJS, Norton, Triumph (Tiger Cub) until I bought my first new bike, a Honda 400cc Hondamatic! This was a revelation in reliabilty compared to the decidedly second-hand British bikes I had owned. It went like stink, had fabulous brakes and handled perfectly. To remind me what I had moved on from I still had a Norton ES2. After a few more years I bought a Yamaha XJ900F on which I did 100,000 miles and then onto ST1300, two of them, covering a total of 280,000 miles.
I have two major gripes with my XRt; it is too high and too heavy, other than that I have grown to enjoy it, oh apart from the agricultural gearbox!
I look forward to picking up lots of useful information about my Triumph and perhaps offering my comments on queries about the XRt.
I have been riding since 1966 on a variety of machines starting with old British bikes - actually I started on a 125 Vespa! - but then had a succession of Brit iron, BSA, AJS, Norton, Triumph (Tiger Cub) until I bought my first new bike, a Honda 400cc Hondamatic! This was a revelation in reliabilty compared to the decidedly second-hand British bikes I had owned. It went like stink, had fabulous brakes and handled perfectly. To remind me what I had moved on from I still had a Norton ES2. After a few more years I bought a Yamaha XJ900F on which I did 100,000 miles and then onto ST1300, two of them, covering a total of 280,000 miles.
I have two major gripes with my XRt; it is too high and too heavy, other than that I have grown to enjoy it, oh apart from the agricultural gearbox!
I look forward to picking up lots of useful information about my Triumph and perhaps offering my comments on queries about the XRt.
