New Triumph Tiger for 2007

[SARGE]

when is the Africa Twin coming back out?

[Devil]

Looks great. Never did like the look of the older ones. But yeah...what are they up to with the 17" front...

[Big Dave]

Stop drinking the 21" front wheel koolaid.
Yeah they are better, but most people who will buy this or a XB12X do 10% dirt - if that - and the 17" isn't that bad off road.
I keep up fine on the buell.

[Big Dave]

It's a Buell XB12X with real power.

100's all you need when it's in the right places, sunshine.

I'll certainly be giving the Tigger it a very close look when the warranty on the XB is up. Still 15 months away.

[Edbear]

I'll certainly be giving the Tigger it a very close look when the warranty on the XB is up. Still 15 months away.

Sigh......!

[warewolf]

Hmm me likee, likee a lot.

100hp is all the KTM950 has, and you don't see people complaining.

I reckon ground clearance, supple (read: longer travel) suspension and wide bars are probably my biggest 'wants' in a road-biased dirt-capable sport-tourer...which is in essence what all these big super-trailie-wannabes are...and the tigger has all of that.

[Terry]

100's all you need when it's in the right places, sunshine.

I'll certainly be giving the Tigger it a very close look when the warranty on the XB is up. Still 15 months away.

I agree with Dave. Now that I've owned this style of bike I'll probably never go back. As for 17" get over it and go ride one, its not so bad. Recon the XB12X a better looking bike though.

[Hillbilly]

Here's a couple more pics of the 2007 Tiger 1050:

[warewolf]

Nice.

Interesting that the rear quarter shot makes it look - apart from the high pipe - identical to a 1991 Yamaha TDM 850.

New Sport
All round athlete.
The TDM850 is a sport bike that does it all well. You can cruise it down the highway with a passenger and baggage, slice up curving mountain road or commute around town. Its compact 849cc parallel twin engine pumps out a wonderful spread of torquey power. And its ultra-modern Deltabox frame and chassis put it in a class of its own.

Sound like anyone we know?

[Big Dave]

Nice.

New Sport
All round athlete.

Sound like anyone we know?

Me........?

[warewolf]

Me........?

Nah, that would be:

Good Sport
Tall, sound athlete.

[sels1]

It certainly looks more road orintated than previous models. Not that I take mine off the road that much, its just nice to be able to when I want. Like PaulNZ, I think the passenger compartment is a step backwards - I ride 2-up quite often and the comfy back seat was one of the reasons I went for a Tiger. Like the look of the front tho. I guess I will look forward to a test ride and see.

[Big Dave]

It certainly looks more road orintated than previous models. Not that I take mine off the road that much, its just nice to be able to when I want. Like PaulNZ, I think the passenger compartment is a step backwards - I ride 2-up quite often and the comfy back seat was one of the reasons I went for a Tiger. Like the look of the front tho. I guess I will look forward to a test ride and see.

Looks similar to the sprint ST which the co-pilot rates very highly.

[MD]

Smart looking bike. Would be a comfy tourer I reckon.

[Ruralman]

Stop drinking the 21" front wheel koolaid.
Yeah they are better, but most people who will buy this or a XB12X do 10% dirt - if that - and the 17" isn't that bad off road.
I keep up fine on the buell.

Rather than agree with you like the others I'm not going to pander to that cause - I think the 21 inch front wheel is important. Most of the members on this bit of this site are serious about wanting an adventure bike that can handle well rough rutted back country roads, where the challenging longitudinal rust really do catch out a smaller wheeled machine than the bigger wheel which makes it much easier to get out of them - for Christs sake why do you think they put the big wheel on bloody trail bikes!!
Yes there are some urbanites who won't ever use this capacity but I reckon these guys fall into three camps :
1) they are just fucking posers
2) they just want a bike with an upright riding position for all the pluses that has
3) they have a desire that one day they will do a trip they have always dreamed about doing and they want to know that the bike they ride is going to be up to it and not only get them there but allow them to do it easily.

At Olriders place last night he showed me an article in a mag testing 4 adventure bikes - Vstrom650, Transalp, KLE500 and the Duc Multistrada
- the "test" was obviously done by a bunch of sportbike riding pansies who didin't take these machines anywhere near places they were designed to go, nor did they therefore expose some of the issues that some of them have - for example if you did 50 miles of wet gravel road and that gravel had a lot of clay mixed in with it (very easy to do that in NZ) what effect would that have on the V Strom once it has completely blocked the exposed oil cooler??

Testers need to test and not just be a patsy sales force for the new bike distributors - having said that Dave, I'm not accusing you of being a patsy and I am an avid KR reader - BUT - the 21 inch front wheel IS FUCKING IMPORTANT!!!!