| | | | 2007 Triumph Tiger 1050-The white Tiger strikes! |  Written: 01/12/2006 : 09:37. Read 24733 times (43/day). | | The integrality of this filed article is for Premium Members. | The Tiger have been long overdue an upgrade. It was one of the last models to still feature the 955 engine and now Triumph have launched a new Tiger with the 1050 triple engine, new chassis and brand new styling. We politely asked specifically for the albino Tiger, Triumph replied; Fusion white, its Fusion white!
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In an ideal world you would be able to take one bike, go offroad with it, and then take it to a track day in Spain and tour back home on it. However that is nearly impossible due to this planet’s complex nature with complex surfaces. Triumph has reintroduced the Tiger as a much more capable sporting machine. There are still more suspension than on a sportbike, but upside-down fork, radial brake callipers, stronger swingarm and 114bhp shouts sport rather than the old more adventure styled 955. We racked up more than 1.000 miles on the first production Tiger 1050 to hit the roads.
As usual we started out our test doing motorway miles. This tells us how the bike is as a touring bike and we also added luggage on a 320 mile journey. Triumph has a fully developed luggage system for the new Tiger, but we had to do without. We strapped on the luggage in the old fashioned way. The only thing that stops you using soft luggage on the new Tiger 1050 (well, on the old 955 too) is the high exhaust on the right hand side. So we had to strap on the luggage so that it did not touch the hot part of the exhaust. It wasn’t too difficult, but it looks a bit odd and might mess up the handling a bit. At high speed we did struggle to keep a steady line due to the heavy autumn winds on the open motorways, but the front was more stable than for instance on the Honda CBF1000 that I tested with luggage a month ago. On the CBF1000 with luggage I was forced to slow down, I never felt I had to slow down on the Tiger 1050 despite the heavy side wind.
The seat is comfortable and I could handle one tank full after the other in relative comfort. I admit that I was pushing it a bit with regards to the speed (my average was very high whilst riding at night) and revs I used so the range can be compared with what you can do on the German autobahn where there is free speed limit. With that sort of riding I could do about 130 miles between stops and refill around 18 litres (with luggage and heavy wind). I can ride fuel economical as well and the Tiger can produce decent mileage per gallon when keeping the revs below 6.000rpm. My best run gave more than ...
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