Morning all, my name's Dennis, I'm in Leicestershire and yesterday I got my first Triumph, a Tiger 800 XRT, 19 plate. I've not been biking long - I started in 2003 to commute into Leicester on a Honda CB500, got made redundant but kept riding for a bit, then came off. Long story short, I didn't go back to biking until last summer, when I bought a BMW F800GT. Since then, I've been going round and round locally, and I'm doing an IAMs course with the local group, LADAM (Hi, Bill or Zoe, if you're on here ) I'm off to Spain at the end of the month. My niece is getting married in Albufeira, right at the bottom of Portugal, so I'm using that as the excuse for 10 days of riding south from Santander then back up to Bilbao. Looking forward to it with a mix of excitement and blank terror!! Anyway, hello there.
Great intro and fab picture. Welcome to the family. You will be fine mate it all comes back in an instance. And big and the Tiger is a confidence building bike and sounds just right. Good luck with your trip. Do let us al know how you get on. Joe
That sounds like quite an adventure! I hope that you can fit a suit and tie into your luggage for the wedding! I love the bike! I was thinking about one of those, but opted for a Trophy SE in addition to the Sprint GT pictured because of the wind protection and riding position. Besides, it was rather cheap because it had 25k miles (about 40k kms) on the clock. It is a heavy one, though. Will you route include many motorways or will you chart a route on smaller roads? I hope that you also invested in great rain gear. A long day in wet clothes will be miserable. As you can see from the photo, I carry the bike to a destination and pick the nice days to ride! Post photos along the way!