While four-cylinder super sports and nakeds once reigned supreme, most riders eventually recognized just how impractical these bikes are for on-road use — a realization that’s given way to affordable, sporty-looking naked bikes and supersport motorcycles kicked along by more manageable and street-friendly two and three-cylinder engines. And after the debut of the Yamaha R7 and Aprilia RS660, Triumph has now announced that it too is getting in on the inline-three supersport action with the debut of the Hinckley firm’s Daytona 660.
The Daytona 660 shares its platform with Triumph’s recently-released Trident 660 model, though boasts a handful of key differences. For starters, the Daytona 660 sports a full fairing design — not unlike the previous Daytona 675 or current Daytona 765. In addition to gaining a full front fairing, the Daytona 660 has also received a sportier, more waspish tail section set atop a novel subframe design. The nose of the new fairing also features a set of newly-designed LED headlights that put a more modern spin on the units found on older-gen Daytonas. Like the Trident 660, the Daytona 660 offers a fairly practical, upright riding position that’s still sporty enough to lend itself to more spirited riding on the track or in the canyons.
The Daytona looks sportier than the Trident, and that’s because it is. The motorcycle’s liquid-cooled 660cc inline-three engine has been tuned to make 93.7hp and 50.8ft-lbs of torque — an increase of 17% and 9% respectively over the existing Trident 660. Paired with the British-built supersport model’s tweaked chassis design is an inverted 41mm Showa Big Piston fork that’s been paired with one of the brand’s mono-shocks. Riding on a set of lightweight five-spoked cast aluminum wheels shod in Michelin’s new high-specification Power 6 rubber, the Daytona 660 also benefits from a ride-by-wire throttle equipped with multiple modes, plus twin four-piston radial calipers chomping down on 310mm discs.
The 2024 Triumph Daytona 660 is available for order now with pricing starting from $9,195.
