I like to think I'm a pretty fair guy and if I'm wrong I'll be the first to admit it.
All my experience with Big Bore kits, it's something that if you buy the kits and have the work done then you have to pay the labor costs, machine work, and whatever other charges are associated with it, ending with a much larger cost than just the cost of the kit. The way I was looking at it earlier was that you'd have to buy the kit for $900 and have the dealer install it with all the extra costs that I just mentioned earlier...
If that was the case I think it would be bad business for everyone, Triumph would waste money on pistons, cams, and all the other things that got replaced on 1600's that never got to see a mile of road and the customer would have to drop extra cash on labor, and machine work for a "factory" upgrade.
I was just on the Triumph web site using the "create your bike" application and I saw that one of the options was the big bore and that it was $899 total. If that's the case, then I see nothing wrong with that. As a matter of fact I like that a lot. If that's the case, I was wrong and I apologize. And if you got the 1600 and decided later you wanted to go bigger there's no reason you shouldn't have to pay the extra labor charges and whatnot. But if it was that you'd have to pay all those costs to have your bike upgraded upon delivery, which may have been my mistake, then I stand by my statement that it would be a load of crap.
