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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Triumph's 400 Thumpers Reply #15 - 07/01/23 at 19:52:37 It's about at the top of my weight limit. It sounds like it's got everything I want in a bike. Have they said what the seat height is?
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Reply #16 - 07/02/23 at 13:24:25

Haven’t seen a spec sheet on it yet. Only visual thing on the bike I absolutely can’t stand , totally makes the bike look thrown together without any prior planning or they were too far down the line to go back and change it. Gives it a Chinese like quality look to the bike , besides paint work.
Most here know me pretty good by now.

Who here sees what I’m seeing ?
Clue : you rarely see it on any bike , let alone on a so called quality bike.
So chime in , let me know what is that visual distraction that is just plain old crappy looking !

For me it could be a deciding factor not to buy it , shame on you Triumph !

Who can see it ? Let’s here it !

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Reply #17 - 07/02/23 at 13:32:16

I’ll bet it’s being built in India , the biggest market , makes total sense. India , Europe and then the US , that tells me 1 to 2 years before we’ll see it. I do like that it’s not a parallel twin and it is their engine not some Honda clone. Probably like the BSA , jointly developed , with Rotax. Real world is Triumph gives them a rough draft of engines looks and then Rotax does what it does best is build engines.

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ohiomoto Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2697 WTF is JOG?	Re: Triumph's 400 Thumpers Reply #18 - 07/02/23 at 19:33:54 The dingleberry horn Ruttly? I don't dig it but not many people will sit on a rock and stare at the bike for hours, so I'll forgive and forget. If I had a scrambler, I would pull the headlight screen. It's just too trendy for me. I'm pretty much fine with everything about these for the price point they are targeting.
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jcstokes Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com is very useful Posts: 2119 Mauku New Zealand Gender:	Re: Triumph's 400 Thumpers Reply #19 - 07/02/23 at 21:06:27 Will apparently be sold in New Zealand from January 2024, price unknown.
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Ruttly Serious Thumper Offline Thumpers Rule Posts: 5008 Manteca , CA Gender:	Re: Triumph's 400 Thumpers Reply #20 - 07/02/23 at 22:14:44 No , but I missed that I’ll have to go back and look. Are we knocking off more points ?
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Ruttly Serious Thumper Offline Thumpers Rule Posts: 5008 Manteca , CA Gender:	Re: Triumph's 400 Thumpers Reply #21 - 07/02/23 at 23:37:16 Hopefully they fix that pre production , definite eye sore.
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Re: Triumph's 400 Thumpers
Reply #22 - 07/04/23 at 04:19:17

Ruttly wrote on 07/02/23 at 13:24:25:

Who here sees what I’m seeing ?
Clue : you rarely see it on any bike , let alone on a so called quality bike.

Who can see it ? Let’s here it !

I don't believe I see what you dislike. Everything I see appears to be pretty common on modern motorcycles.

I am not a fan of the rear fender extenders/license plate mounts or short front fenders that are on a lot of bikes these days, and I would prefer proper fenders that actually keep crap from being thrown on you and/or the bike.

Even new sport touring bikes have front fenders that are really short and allow road debris/mud/water to be thrown up on the engine/frame.

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Ruttly Serious Thumper Offline Thumpers Rule Posts: 5008 Manteca , CA Gender:	Re: Triumph's 400 Thumpers Reply #23 - 07/04/23 at 05:16:35 Clue : They did an excellent job of hiding it on both bikes , in plain view The first thing your eyes focuses on
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TheSneeze Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1203 Northern Nevada Gender:	Re: Triumph's 400 Thumpers Reply #24 - 07/04/23 at 09:25:46 The covers over the carb/intake area.
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Dave YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 17831 Camp Springs, Kentucky Gender:	Re: Triumph's 400 Thumpers Reply #25 - 07/04/23 at 14:30:02 I suppose the little emblems that say "SPEED" and "SCRAMBLER 400X" are a bit cheesy looking. I would likely remove those and paint or powder coat them to be a bit nicer looking.
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Reply #26 - 07/04/23 at 15:30:12

Both Fuel tank use great colors that help hide imperfections. Big imperfections ! Both tanks are different capacity and don’t get me wrong I like both models , BUT !
The dimpled fuel tanks to me screams CHEAP and these bikes deserve better. Dimples for space relief for triple trees and fork legs is well hidden. I have to say it looks like crap , the graphics just continue the trendy cheap look. And the properly named Dingleberry horn. If I wanted cheesy graphics I’d buy a R/E. Let the YouTube reviews roll , see what they find out.
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Ruttly Serious Thumper Offline Thumpers Rule Posts: 5008 Manteca , CA Gender:	Re: Triumph's 400 Thumpers Reply #27 - 07/08/23 at 10:17:26 The Topic Terminator strikes again
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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 28387 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: Triumph's 400 Thumpers Reply #28 - 07/08/23 at 11:44:34 They could have made the tanks lower capacity... I'll take the dimples. In fact,... they look kinda' cool...
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Triumph's 400 Thumpers Reply #29 - 07/08/23 at 19:19:25 MMRanch wrote on 07/01/23 at 19:42:49: This needs to come to the USA in a 500cc bike. https://www.rideapart.com/news/491449/honda-cb350-wide-global-release-rumors/ I'm liking that
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