The amazing New Year Gift for Triumph bikes lover. At this beginning of year 2013, Triumph makes us the surprise of relocking its Triumph Tiger 1050. The road trail thus becomes Triumph Tiger Sport and benefits from installations aiming at making it more effective and more intuitive. The practical aspects are not forgotten and one can expect a rate placed. What to start again the career of the senior of the English tigers? Why not…
Impetus in 1995 in version 900 Cm3, then in 955 Cm3 in 2001, Tiger became 1050 Cm3 in 2007. It took muscle, became bourgeois, became a true road trail trend SUV (raised position, but wheels of 17 inches out of alloy, frame of road), but did not start a riot in the Triumph dealers.
Moreover, recently, it undergoes a hard in-house competition with much succeeded Triumph Tiger 800 and Triumph Tiger 800 XC and the maximum trail Tiger 1200 to explore. One did not have any more at Triumph to re-examine this “Tiger of the medium”. For 2013, it is done, here Tiger Sport.
Sporting Relooking
The technicians, designer and decision makers of Triumph did not wish to upset the base of Triumph Tiger 1050. To undoubtedly preserve manufacturing and reasonable development costs. Thus, they again took the whole of the motorcycle and evolve the engine and it part-cycle. It is noticed that Triumph Tiger Sport refines herself clearly. It benefits from a new back hull, with a lower saddle of 5 mm (830 mm), new handles passenger and a base also lower for this last. The sides of careenage are re-examined, like the head of fork and optics. In Diablo red, Triumph Tiger Sport offers even a small air of Ducati Multistrada.
With regard to the engine, Triumph took again the three cylinders online of 1 050 Cm3, recognized for its approval and its versatility of use, but Triumph modified the cartography of injection and the line of exhaust. The brand announces a saving in fuel of about 7%, while the power in free version climbs with 125 horses against 115 on Triumph Tiger 1050. The couple also progresses, with 6 Nm of better.
Triumph also specifies to have improved the gear box to make it smoothie. In the same time, back crown gained a tooth to improve the recoveries and promptness of the engine. The improvement of the box or work on the cartography is updated that are not without pointing out the last modifications made to last the Triple Speed. Morality, Tiger Sport should not miss leaping more with the opening of gases!
Re-examined geometry, new wheels, new ABS
Side left cycle; Triumph Tiger Sport sees his angle of steering column closed of 0, 5° and its footing to lengthen a little. The reversed fork receives new adjustments, together with new springs and valves. The clamps of Nissin brake, always with radial fixing with front, receive the assistance of an ABS of last generation to finer release. The rims, out of alloy, are new and they propose the presence of the one that will monograms oscillating. Of origin, they fit of Pirelli Angel ST in 17 inches AV/AR. With all these changes, Triumph Tiger Sport should show herself nimbler and more reassuring in fast control.
The practical aspects also received some attentions: removable bag shop as an option for having the flexible system of Triumph for less influencing the dynamic behavior. Triumph specifies that it will be possible to place crash helmets there, but the right bag should be amputated by part of its volume because of the passage of the silencer. In addition, the new back hull presents housing for you while the control unit of left receives an order, making it possible to make ravel information of the computer of edge.
Profiting from a beautiful update which seems relevant, Tiger Sport should arrive in March at the Triumph dealers. The price is not communicated yet but, as reference that of Triumph Tiger 1050 SE is of 12 990 € side bags understood.
