Tag: Triumph Tiger

  • Took a short testride today. Even I knew this is going to be great bike I was still surprised! What an amazing bike!
    The engine is marvellous! It gives smooth power already from 2000rpm and it sounds very nice too.

    Already OffRoading…

    The suspension is totally with manual adjustments but it seems it made me very happy with the factory defaults (I’m 120kg’s!) And that is rare. I was also very happy with the riding position even when I was standing. Maybe I would add 2cm’s to the height of the handlebar if I would be the owner of the bike.

    The bike doesn’t look very special… Except the spoked wheels are very nice!

    This bike would be big enough for me and for my wife. The power is ofcourse much smaller than in XR but I think I could manage with it.
    I did find ONE thing I didn’t like! When you’re filling the tank the lid of the tank doesn’t stay up! So when you take the gaspump you have to lift the lid up with your other hand to get the gas to the tank… Not very big thing but it made me think how easy it would be to change this!
    One interesting thing was the rpm meter in the TFT-screen! There was 2 of them!!! One on the left side and then another on the right side of the TFT…
    It seems they had (too much) space in the TFT screen to put it there twice 😉

    Keimola race track (or it was a race track)
  • Took a test ride of this nice bike last september. The first feeling was only about how great bike it was!! I had my wife sitting behind me and even without adjustments to the suspension felt great!

    After 20-30 kilometers I was already thinking that this bike feels so great that I should change my XR to this… But then we took the narrow, bumpy and curvy road (Immersby road) and I started to think something else

    Östersundom Churc

    BMW XR is definitely better to gain speed after corners – The suspension is much better for 2 passangers – And XR simply makes you smile in every different situation… Tiger (only) makes you feel comfortable. Tiger is very nice bike! Maybe I should have tried the adventure version (800 XCA) and I would have found more positive things compare to BMW S1000XR.

    But this road-version of the Triumph 800 Tiger is very good bike with very reasonable price and I can totally recommend it!

    Tiger XRT is also very nice looking bike!