Scrambler Scrambler 1200 Scraping Pegs

Pete I’ve just searched ‘ define scrambler Motorcycles ‘
First line reads a lightweight motorcycle equipped with rugged tyres. Hmm it’s amazing I found on google a completely different explanation to what you found..

How strange we both managed to get a different answer from the internet, I feel I’ve been here before

 

A short extract from Cycle World's Scrambler 1200 test : "No other Scrambler or adventure has ever felt more similar to a dirt bike than the Scrambler 1200 in an off-road situation."

 

208 kg, mate that’s double the weight of the largest real dirt bikes, please be serious.
This is a lovely lovely road bike but it ain’t no dirtbike.

Watch long way round with Charle Boorman. And Ewan McGregor and see how many times they crash on the unwieldy BMW GS.
Which by the way is a couple of kg lighter.

 

I don’t like the real outcome, so I’m taking my ball back, same old Pete

 

Just because it's too big/heavy/shiney/expensive/not-enough-gap-between-the-mudguard & front wheel for YOU, doesn't mean it's no good off road. There are many thousands of people who it IS good off-road for. There are many very big/tall guys out there who don't fit a small, lightweight bike & for them the Triumph may well fit the bill. Regarding it's off-road potential - Re-read the Cycle World extract above over & over until you can absorb what it means.

 

Don’t need to mate, I’ve been riding all my life and a 200+ kilo off road can only end with it hitting the floor harder than 100 kilo bike

 

Not a problem, I’m a realist not a dreamer.
If it does what it says on tin fine, if not don’t put it on the tin

 

So if that's the issue, then why did you buy a 200kg v. a 100kg bike?

 

As I’ve alread said my Thruxton is a pretend old school race type bike pretend being the operative word,
Looks lovely to me, but I’m not going to stick it on track with a race bike because it would tie itself in knots before going into a gravel trap

 

Perhaps there is some confusion

 

It's nothing to do with racing/scrambling/touring/whatever. You can come off any bike at any speed. Your argument is you're going to hurt yourself on a 200kg bike more than a 100kg one. So why did you buy a 200kg bike?

 

The odds falling off when off road are far greater than normal tarmac riding, if you don’t think that will happen more on an unwieldy 200 kg motorcycle than a lightweight dirt bike then so be it.

Good luck fella, but don’t ride on your own, you may need assistance lifting that lump up again

 

I can remember the Trumpet Scambler from the '70s. It made a good capable green laner and trail bike with men mostly dressed in wax cotton jackets riding them. Today's scrambler is a take on that.

 

What model was it?

 

Can't recall the model number but can i remember the chap up the road had a red one with a white band on the tank. Had a high up exhaust similar to the new model. Think they came painted in old English white too

 

The only bike I can relate to a 70’s Scrambler is a BSA B50ss but that doesn’t really as it’s dry weight is 135kg and 70kg extra doesn’t really compare.

 

Sure it was the original Triumph Tiger that am thinking about.