Being selected as just one magazine’s bike of the year is a very worthwhile achievement, but when 15 of the world’s leading motorcycle publications vote your product the finest new bike of the year by an outstanding margin, you know you’ve done things right.
This year’s International Bike of the Year competition saw the Triumph Daytona 675 claim the top spot with 26 votes — more than double the 11 scored by the second-placed Yamaha YZF-R6.
In the prestigious Masterbike Shootout in Spain earlier this year, the Triumph also came out trumps in the Supersport class, scoring 27 votes against the seven picked up by the Suzuki GSX750R for second place. In that competition the world’s top motorcycles journalists thrashed the finalists around a racetrack to establish which were the best sports machines.
Six magazines — Australian Motorcycle News, Motorwereld (Belgium), Cycle Canada, Kicxstart (The Netherlands), Moto Motorcycle Magazine (Russia), and Cycle World (United States) — all awarded the Triumph Daytona 675 maximum votes in the International Bike of the Year competition.
In all, 10 of the 15 magazines involved in the judging gave the Triumph triple at least one vote. The panel praised the bike’s handling, styling, performance, brakes, character, sound and price.
The latest British machine has won bike-of-the-year awards in every corner of the world, including South Africa, the US, Belgium, Russia, Australia, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Brazil, The Netherlands and Switzerland
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