I’m not wild about the choice of colours over the standard black and that slabby exhaust is a bit naff. The optional Akropovic (no price yet but, you know) is a bit better. Either or both will bump up the price beyond the base £17,485. Fruity.
Still, 180BHP, 94lb ft of old-fashioned torques and some clever Ohlins suspension giving a supposedly better ride means I really must get a back-to-back test with a Street Triple to finally put that decision to bed this year.
I’m a big fan of semi-active suspension (on our potholed roads) so that’s a plus. Agree the standard silencer is horrid, most manufacturers are hiding most of the required bulk underneath the engine now
And the pillion seat appears to be getting ever smaller so they might as well ditch the pillion pegs too. Otherwise seems a fairly minor makeover.
I wonder if they’ve made the same error I had on the old 955 SprintST, a nice SS swingarm for easy wheel removal… except the silencer has to be removed to get it off the stub axle.
But (I’ll say it yet again), they should be making a Tiger Sport version of this if they want to sell more.
Anyway of only academic interest to me, my nearest dealer is now 100 miles/2hrs away so a new Triumph is a non-starter (due to the inevitable warranty/service requirements). Unless they replace the recently failed Plymouth dealer, and even that was a stretch.
