Gwilym's Adventure Blog

Whilst my Triumph Explorer was in for a service, I got to play on a Triumph Street Scrambler for the day. Sadly as I had lots of other things to do I only spent about 90 minutes on it but I was very nearly impressed with it. It has been some time since I have ridden a twin and even longer since I have ridden a naked bike. It certainly looks nice and doesn't sound to bad either. Compared to my Explorer it is massively underpowered and lacks a lot of the toys that make mile munching so easy. However, as a light weight second bike to nip across town on or cruise the moors on a hot summers day then it could well have a place in my garage. Today is not that day but one day maybe.

A warm and sunny afternoon in Somerset so what better to do than pay a trip to my friends at Total Triumph to have a quick spin on the new Triumph Tiger 1200. Jumping off my current Tiger Explorer XCa (Khaki Green that I have customised with Tiger Stripes) and straight onto a New Tiger 1200 XRt (White) I was able to compare my "old" 2017 with the new "2018" Here are my thoughts The Name: Explorer has now gone and it is just called the Tiger 1200. I liked the name Explorer as it sums up what I do with the bike however, a name is just a name. I understand the desire to strengthen the Tiger name however, it would be nice if Triumph would do a special version with a bigger tank, off road tyres, full crash bars and a few other "expedition" extras and call it an Explorer The 1200 Tank Decal: Can't see it when riding and clearly I thought the tank was bland on mine as I added tiger stripes, but can't help thinking it is just follo...