QUOTE(zul_akmar85 @ Oct 30 2018, 11:29 AM)
I am a proud owner of '17 Street Triple RS. I will try to answer your questions at my best knowledge and base on my experience. First of all, your thread title says 'Speed' instead of 'Street'. So my answer will base on Street.
1. How is the service cost and quality of service provided by these brands? Which brand has the better after sales service and customer service?
- minor service cost <RM500. For semi synthetic EO, it cost even less.
- i cannot comment much on QoS since this is my first ever big bike I own. There were 1 or 2 mistakes they made, but no big issue. Overall I am happy with them so far.
2. Maintenance cost – how does the two brands compare?
- service interval. 5000km for semi synt, 10000km for fully. Like I mentioned above, it cost less than RM500 depending which type EO you decide to use.
- major service every 20,000km. I believe this is the time they do valve clearance check. I am not entirely certain what else they do since I haven't got any experience yet. In term of major service cost, I estimate around or less than RM1500 every time.
3. Reliability – are there any reliability issues for the Triumph Speed Triple model? Understand Ducati’s are quite famous for problems? Any experiences to share?
- honestly there are known major and minor issues with this bike. There are few unfortunate owners I know having major problem with their engine. But Triumph honor their warranty by replacing it with a new one (after sale service). As for me, my bike is running well so far despite doing track riding almost every month.
Sry i meant street triple RS (not speed). Have changed the title.
thanks for the sharing bro. excellent stuff.
As for the known major issues, i think every car/bike has a few bad apples but if the number of reports are higher than the norm then i think its worth looking further into. just going through youtube, i notice for ducati's there are alot of people are complaining abt the bike refusing to start, electrical issues, frequent engine warning light, etc and therefore being labled as unreliable. Could you pls let me know what are the known issues for the Triumph and i can do more research on it. offhand i see more + reliability reviews on the Triumph. thank you. My plan is to keep the bike for as long as possible.
im guessing the Street Triple will run cooler than the monster 821 as its liquid cooled? should be good for trackdays