Around a year and a half ago, I had the great pleasure of experiencing the Triumph Speed Twin 900 for the first time, and it was a great deal of fun. But it was my colleague Robbie Bacon who put first the Triumph Speed Twin 1200, then the Speed Twin 1200 RS through their respective paces.
And truly, if there's any bike that comes closest to the Speed Twin 1200 TFC I'm going to detail for you now in the brand's current lineup, it's surely the Speed Twin 1200 RS. Only, where the RS utilizes Marzocchi suspension, the TFC ups the ante even further and goes down the fully adjustable Öhlins route. Is there always room for improvement? I mean, usually, but this should be pretty difficult to top.
