With Scrambler X and Speed Motorcycles, Triumph Is Pushing Accessibility

• Triumph Speed 400 and Scrambler 400 X arrive in 2024 at what promises to be a very affordable price.

• While they'll be big sellers in India and Asian markets, they’ll also bring new, younger, and some returning riders into the fold here in the US.

• Just under 40 hp with a wet weight of 375 pounds promise fun performance.

Triumph motorcycles will be accessible to a much wider range of buyers next year when the all-new Speed 400 and Scrambler 400 X models go on sale here in 2024. US prices won’t be announced until closer to launch, but considering that the current lowest-priced Triumph, the Trident 660, stickers for $8595, expect a truly manageable monthly payment to go with your freedom.

The two bikes are all-new, Triumph says, including the frames and engines. The bikes were designed and engineered by both Triumph and India’s Bajaj. Wait, who’s Bajaj? It’s the world’s third-largest motorcycle maker and the second biggest in India. India knows motorcycles, too, with a market that can exceed 20 million units in a year.

In 2016 Bajaj signed a deal to develop small-displacement motorcycles with KTM and continues to manufacture sub-400-cc bikes for the Austrians. Five years ago, it signed another deal with Triumph, both makers seeing the enormous market on the subcontinent and beyond. The first fruit of that relationship is what you see here, a pair of 400-cc single-cylinder bikes that will go on sale in India just after you read this, and in the rest of the world, including here in the US, by early 2024.