Triumph Teases the New Water-Cooled Bonneville, Here's What We Know

How to do you make one of the best selling retro bikes even better? Make it more retro while simultaneously giving it modern performance.

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It’s that type of year again—the hype is building and the tsunami of news will be hitting us shortly from across the pond and at home. Looks like Triumph is jumping into the wave this year, unveiling an all-new, water-cooled Bonneville on October 28th, 2016.

It’s been 15 years since the Bonneville had a major refresh, but Triumph has been one of the best selling companies in the US so they haven’t exactly been in any hurry to change a good thing. Triumph just released a teaser above, but here’s what we can tell so far about the new Bonnie.

First it appears as though Triumph either surpassingly or accidentally released the new Bonneville or likely the new Street Tracker (both will feature the new water-cooled engine) in a video featuring soccer star David Beckham. You can catch some quick glimpse in the below video...

The 2016 Triumph Bonneville Spied

Triumph was some how able to make the bike more retro, while giving it some long waited modern upgrades; with things like a more rounded steel frame that resembles the original Bonnie, along with the tank, seat, taillight and side panels are all said to have a slight ‘60s redesign too. It also has finned exhaust head clamps like the oldies (my favorite).

The Bonneville will likely keep the original telescopic forks and the two shocks out back. But a new rumored Street Tracker version is what my dreams are made of: inverted Öhlins forks with remote reservoir Öhlins shocks out back, and Brembo radial-mount calipers along with sportbike-ish wheels and tires. This gives me chills.

So how about the latest and greatest stuff on the Bonneville? Well, besides the projected water-cooled platform, the Bonneville will receive dual discs up front and all models will feature ABS. A drive-by-wire is expected, which can be accompanied by electronics like traction control.