Featured What you been doing with your TRIUMPH today??

Beautiful morning in Devon so rode in to work, the car park always looks better in the sun

 

No more counting to six for me!

Healtec gear indicator fitted....then setup ... then an hour's testing blasting on my new Tiger 1050 round the Oxfordshire countryside

 

Great photos (first two,anyway .. haha) Shame Triumph stopped making these 'retro beasts.' Rode a Legend that had a 'Sport' engine fitted ..mmmm !

 

I have no luck with courtesy bikes, always gutted when I see people given nice options. I got a T100 (where's the 6th gear) when my Nightstorm went in and a NC750 Honda boring when I dropped @Mrs Visor Street Triple off. Mate dropped his Tiger 800 off and got a Street Triple RS and all you guys post pics of all the nice bikes you get

 

So Shoei’s funky cheat mode design gets you green lights. Rats I bought the wrong colour scheme.

 

WTF that is crazy. Did you go to an independent?

 

I have a lot of empathy with that as well

 

A fuck off spell would be more useful to be honest... have you got one of those?

 

Sure did, Triumph trained and half the price

 

stopped off at tea@theshee where some old tractors were having a run from Aberdeen down to Dunkeld

 

Oooh I hadn't even put two and two together it MUST be the cheat mode.....soooooper .

 

Was thinking of a ride after work but time was against me. Did a quick intro about my Triumph. I'm slightly mean about him, but he's a good sport and I'm happy with him.

 

IGNORE...Click....Poof! Gone, like magic.

 

I don't think Joe's horrendously ugly at all, I think it's a nice looking bike!!! (Although appreciate I have a bike with a "face" that is very divisive of opinion myself.....).

 

We're grateful, Mrs Visor. I naturally have a self-deprecating and often dry outlook. I think the RS is superb value and much less likely to be abused than other 20 year old bikes. I always look forward to taking it out.

 

I love a bit of fresh rubber

 

I've just been out and scrubbed mine in for Scotland in the morning

 

Cheers Dawsy, no doubt we will post some pictures in due course

 

Started my favorite nearby dealership hunting to find me a Tiger 900 Rally Pro.

Cause: I took my Tiger 1200 Alpine to Big Bend National Park for a ~1500 mile trip over a week with a couple of friends also on big adv bikes. (One was on a KTM 1290, and the other on a Harley Pan America). All great bikes, and we had a great time in the park. One thing we all chalked up as an experience, though, was that these bigger bikes are way out of their element in deep sand and pea gravel, of which we encountered a *lot* in the several hundred miles of backcountry trails we were riding in the park.

To be clear: the bikes were probably capable of riding through what we tackled, but we failed them as riders. And, in particular, picking up a ~650lb Tiger for the third time in 108F heat in the west Texas desert was the tipping point for me to decide that I need a bike that's a tad slimmer if I'm going to continue to tackle things like this that push me out of my comfort zone as a rider. Which I fully intend to do. However, I also don't intend to go fully over to the "use a truck and trailer to haul my toys to the place I'm going to ride them, and then back" crowd. I want to ride the bike there and back, and I like long trips, so I'm not at all intending to swap my Tiger 1200 for a dirt bike.

Thus: dealer search for a Tiger 900 Rally Pro

I spent the vast majority of this trip in the saddle and riding, and took very few pictures, but here are a few for the "pics or it didn't happen" crowd...

 

Hey, Aaron! Good to see you on the forum again. And with some terrific photos. Sounds like you and your buddies had a great trip. Although neither Mr. Sandi nor I ride an adv bike, we have a couple of friends who do (BMW 1250GS and Pan America). We've always thought to be the case what you found--that the big adv bikes seem just too big for much of the actual off-road stuff that we see in the West/Southwest. Good luck with your search for Tiger 900 Rally Pro.