Buy a Used Triumph Speed 1200 Twin For ‘Half Price’
This 2019 Speed Twin 1200 comes in at about half the cost of the new RS model that heads up the rejigged 2025 range
It’s facelift time for the Triumph Speed Twin 1200, with updates for the 2025 model year bringing in a rejigged engine, tweaked looks, fresh tech and a new Speed Twin 1200 RS model.
It is, though, still fundamentally the same bike that Triumph launched in 2019, so if you’re happy doing without the latest tweaks and the changes brought about by the 2021 facelift (which included an upside-down Marzocchi fork), you can save a significant chunk of cheddar.
By going used, you can get a Speed Twin like the £7,344 2019 model seen here, for sale at Superbike Factory. That makes it a smidge over half the price of the new RS, which is £14,495, and significantly less than the £12,495 2025 standard model.
You're still getting that lovely 1,200cc liquid-cooled parallel twin with a burbly 270-degree firing order, which produces just shy of 100bhp, and those gorgeous retro looks. In terms of suspension, in place of the Marzocchi components found on newer Speed Twin 1200s is a setup from KYB featuring a 41mm non-adjustable fork and twin preload-adjustable shocks.
The example we’ve picked out only comes with a part service history, but the mileage is low at just 3,282. If you have a bit more change in the piggy bank, you could instead opt for this 2022 example (below) to take advantage of all of the 2021 MY upgrades, and it won’t cost you drastically more - it’s up for £8,386. The mileage sits at just 2747, and it's only had one former owner.
Along with the new suspension from Marzocchi, these bikes were also made Euro5 compliant, given tweaked geometry, beefier brakes and lighter wheels shod in sticky Metzeler RR K3 tyres.
Which would it be for you?
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Matt has a background in motoring journalism of the four-wheeled variety but has long had a passion for motorbikes, taking his first steps into riding in 2010.
