‘You can pummel the throttle and get a manageable, sane, delivery’ For a bike as beloved as the Street Triple, long regarded as the most fun you can have with your leathers on, it seems only fitting the new 2017 model should come in three flavours. See what they did there? There’s the top-spec, track-based 126bhp RS, with Öhlins suspension, Brembo brakes, the full suite of riding modes and traction control, a quickshifter and a TFT dash. Or the road-spec R, with 116bhp and a bottom-end bias, the same TFT dash but lower-spec suspension and brakes, and fewer electronics.
And then there’s this, the S, at the bottom: a ‘mere’ 111bhp, more basic suspension, non-radial calipers, boring LCD clocks, and only a couple of engine/TC modes. No matter that at…