For what it's worth, I was at the Chicago Motorcycle show yesterday and was walking around looking for the Triumph booth. I saw some triumph banners in the distance, but when I got there, it was just a table with two nice guys who I talked to for a bit about the Rocket. They pointed me in the direction of where they are hiding all the new models and when I got there I was actually really shocked at how small it was. In fact, I walked past it two times and didn't even notice that I had missed them!
Anyways....I sat on the new speed triple + thruxton r, both of which look incredible. They did a really fantastic job, especially on the Thruxton R. The instrument cluster is incredible, the tank looks great and I honestly hope this sells a lot of units for them. I got to talking to the guy on the floor, he asked what I am riding and I mentioned the R3R. He was saying how (like many have mentioned on here already) that they are redoing their entire lineup within the next 4 years. I asked him did he think a CC bump would be coming, he responded with a quick, probably not. He was saying the R3 is just getting harder and harder to meet regulations in the EU and (this was his input not an official statement) believes it will become a NA only bike. No clue how how accurate that is but he mentioned more than likely, throttle by wire, traction control etc, but he thinks it wouldn't get much of an aesthetic change, which is fine with me and probably most people anyway.
None of this is gospel, but I figured I'd share what I heard.
Also, there were virtually no bikes at the booth. No R3, No cruiser of any kind, No tigers, nothing. It was 1 thruxton r, 1 speed triple, 1 street twin, 1 classic bonnie. Thought that was very interesting, especially no tigers, considering they had a rather large display for the Africa Twin. You think Triumph would want some eyes on their ADV bike.
