Triumph releases first Tiger Explorer pictures

Added on Saturday, December 10th, 2011 by Carole Nash Editor | No Comments

Triumph has released the first official pictures of its new BMW R1200GS rival, the 1200cc Tiger Explorer.

The bike is powered by a 1200cc, three-cylinder engine with Triumph’s first ride-by-wire throttle system, and comes with cruise control, traction control and switchable ABS.

The bike follows much of the same basic look and specification as the current Tiger 800, including a similar tubular steel frame, but is notable as the first modern Triumph to feature shaft final drive, in line with direct rivals the GS, Yamaha Super Ténéré and Moto Guzzi Stelvio. This is integrated into a single-sided swingarm design. Wheel sizes are 17 inch rear, 19 inch front.

Various options and accessories are promised but not yet specified, including hard and soft luggage, low and high seats plus a range of electrical items likely to include heated grips, lights and so on.

As with the Tiger 800 and according to Triumph’s general policy, there is nothing ground breaking technologically about the bike, while the styling is conservative too, closely following the Tiger 800′s generic adventure bike look. Even so, Triumph has been enormously successful building exceptionally good motorcycles to this unadventurous formula – clearly this accords with customers’ own priorities.

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