Performance Bike: Speed Triple RS vs MT10 SP

With a pipe, tune and rear sets on the MT I think the battle would be much closer.....

Thanks for the report.  I always look at comparisons like this with a jaundiced eye. It does look like the Triumph has the drop on the Yamaha performance wise, does it mean much for on street use, probably not. And the British press always has a bias for European, and especially UK (Triumph!), machinery. In my case my long time Yamaha dealer is 24 miles away on rural roads, the closest Triumph dealer is 70 miles away in the big city. Yamaha wins by a mile for me. Everyone's situation is different.

SP will demolish the 16 model, can't see this RS being that much quicker.

The 2016 had 104 engine changes from the previous model, me thinks this was more for Euro4 than performance. Kudo's to Triumph for upping their game, I have had 4 Speedy's and loved them all, Triumph just got left way behind in the naked power stakes, my 16 was beautifully screwed together, the fit and finish was second to none, just needed more power.