2024 Triumph Daytona 660

[Gixxer]

[Gixxer]

[Kurlon]

"We took everything that made a Daytona a Daytona, and tossed it. We kept the engine, detuned it and tossed it in a bargain basement steel frame and deleted any adjustable anything. Yamaha showed us the way when they relaunched the iconic R7."

I hate this timeline, and my only way out is via an Uber rolling in a 'Mustang' Mach-E.

[JettaJayGLS]

I didn't even know they discontinued it.
When I read the specs, I thought this was going to be some class killer twin.

What a shame. I'd take my prior 06 & 07 Daytona's over this any day of the week.

[Mgiossi]

Sad that the "sportbike" world keeps going this way. Cheap, slow, boring, but wait.....its got the name of a real sportbike with lots of race pedigree. I keep saying that one day the world will look back on the 2000s era 600s like we look back on the 400s of the 80s/90s. Real chassis, real suspension, real motors. Real race replica's. The way its going it looks like only 1ks are going to have real race DNA in them. Side note, as someone who has owned and raced a daytona 675 this just feels like a slap in the face for the name. So much history in the daytona line and this just feels....dumb. Please que the new dodge dart, gto, etc

[Jim]

if this had a ducati label on it, Scottie would buy it.

[Paul_E_D]

It ensures that the R6 will reign supreme for years to come!

[OreoGaborio]

*motorcycle industry gets too focused on ultra performance race bikes
*motorcycle community gets frustrated with bikes too expensive, too uncomfortable and too "unusable"

*motorcycle industry responds with more accessible options
*motorcycle community gets frustrated with bikes that are too watered down

Round n round we go.

[/devils advocate] Purely tossing that out there for low brow humor.

At first glance I thought they were gonna go head to head w/ the Aprilia. With the triple configuration I wonder if that's kind of the goal, but will it fit in the same classes? Doubt it...

[JettaJayGLS]

I do sorta understand it, I'm just sad, even though I have zero skin in the game here.

[OneCheekRider]

It ensures that the R6 will reign supreme for years to come!

original owner of an 06 R6

Although I have had dreams of a Daytona Moto2 765 in my garage

[Momoney7878]

original owner of an 06 R6

Although I have had dreams of a Daytona Moto2 765 in my garage

I can help with that

[Mgiossi]

But how much longer will the r6 be homologated for pro racing?

[Gixxer]

I didn’t realize the R6 is discontinued.

[Kurlon]

At first glance I thought they were gonna go head to head w/ the Aprilia. With the triple configuration I wonder if that's kind of the goal, but will it fit in the same classes? Doubt it...

So, I don’t mind the industry releasing bikes built to a budget. That’s cool, I’ve owned many of those bikes and loved ‘em. Just don’t build a GS500E and call it a GSX-R, come up with a new name or something. Let the old name retain it’s weight and heritage, ya lazy gits!

On racing, this bike will be going up head to head with the RS660, in Europe. They’re restructuring around this, the R7, RS660, Suzuki’s new 800 twin, etc and are going to implement control ECUs so everyone is around the 95hp mark.

[OneCheekRider]

I didn’t realize the R6 is discontinued.

technically, it's not. You can still buy a 2024 R6 right now, it's just not street legal. I guess they don't have it updated on the US site: https://pop.yamahamotorsports.com/su...23-yzf-r6-race

But it is updated on the EU site https://www.yamaha-motor.eu/rs/sr/mo.../r6-race-2024/

My buddy just bought one. I think other than the lights being removed it's the same exact 2020 R6. I wouldn't want an R6 for the street, so I think it's great they keep it available as a "track/race" version.

[MUZ720]

Ducati did this with the 2004 1000Ds super sport. Sold them as race only till supply ran out.

[Mgiossi]

But the r6 is now a race only special. I'm pretty sure it's not going to be homologated for pro racing in the future. They need to make X amount of street bikes to be allowed in

[Kurlon]

Until Yamaha rolls something new that fits the class, as long as they produce the R6 it’ll be handwaved in. What will officially kill the R6 is the need for a 600 based class dying and we’re already seeing signs of that, ‘next gen superbike’ over here, BSB’s new definition of middleweight in europe, 600s will be ruled out at which point Yamaha can put the R6 to pasture. In the meantime, they’re not doing any development of the bike but already have the molds/tooling/etc, and by calling it a race only machine they can ignore some emissions standards so are effectively printing money and have no reason to stop.