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The last time I rode that launch model was in Nov 2012.
Triumph gave me the new bike 1/5/13. It's been totally trouble free with 20,071 miles a/o today.
I ride it everyday to work, unless it's raining in the morning which only happened maybe a 1/2 dozen times. Rain on the way home, NP!
It's so comfortable to ride, the cruise control is the best and keeps me within the law. No maintenance shaft drive, heated seats and grips, tall windshield. I bought the Triumph top box and panniers which provide tons of storage. The link in my signature was my first Explorer but my replacement bike is exactly the same thing. The other bikes have been to work once each this year. I need storage and they don't have it.
The Explorer's trip computer says I get 51 mpg's, even on spirited rides. It's got power and does the twisties with ease. Foot pegs are a little low and my boots hit when in a nice lean. I have to remember to move my feet back up on the toes. It's a "little" top heavy. Not an off road ride like a dirt bike can do. Hard packed dirt with small stones is no problem. I guess the EX might be better with it's spokes but it is a tubeless rim.
Buy it!