Triumph expands its Bonneville Street Twin family a bit to include the all-new-for-2017 Street Cup. The SC brings the cafe’-tastic vibe of the Thruxton to a smaller engine bracket with a 900 cc mill, thus opening up the club-racing world to entry-level riders and offering experienced riders the option of downsizing for convenience without giving up too much in the way of fun.
Sporty and quick, this ride seems to be everything one would expect from a contemporary cafe’ racer , but the market is currently awash with cafe’ bikes and it seems that everyone is jockeying for a piece of that action. Triumph might even be taking a little wind out of its own sails (sales?) by offering another CR, but price and displacement are different enough to appeal to different buyers. That said, I want to take a look and see what Trumpet has done to make this oddly named bike attractive to buyers in this well-populated niche.
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