new triumph 1050 tiger
 

yum! got a test ride saturday, and they do it in black! guess my transalp may be on ebay very very soon!

Sean do give us a detailed review on it. Ive read the BiKE review and it seems promising. One of these could be a great tourer as well as a lot of fun.

Incidentally with 3 bikes do you ride all year round or have you got a car (and a very understanding missus & big garage) as well?

transalp,hayabusa,ktm,sv650,(project cbr250rr) also got a ford ranger wildtrack. the missus has a smart car! (and a big garage)


http://upload5.postimage.org/99236/ranger003.jpg



http://upload5.postimage.org/99250/ranger004.jpg

i ride all yr round covering 20k in the car and about 25k on the bike! i'll let you know how the test ride goes! :D

It must be just me... I think the new Tiger is pig-ugly :!: :roll:

I wouldn't say 'pig ugly'. It's just got no individual style of its own. It looks like parts of various other bikes cobbled together. The black one definitely looks better then the others though.

Beg to differ, it's a cracking-looking bike :D

I think it looks like someone drove the front end of a bus into the back end of a bus :) Apart from the headlight/fairing it's not too awful though.

Don't like the front much. Like the rest of it. Kind of what I am looking for. The only thing that puts me off is wondering if it will have brakes that work after a few hundred K. Look the same as speed triple and they are known to be gash. Triumph fit and finish is poor too although they do seem to improve with each new model. Fingers crossed. :)

Big gnarly engine makes up for a lot of things tho'! :lol:

CB1000F?

What Trumpet have you been riding?
The Triumph brakes are renowned for being excellent and so has the finish, admittedly it did drop a little after the T5's but it's never been poor!

The bike press seem to be warming to the Tiger after a fairly slow start, looks like it could be a cracking machine.