After the outputs of Triumph Tiger 800 and 1200 to explore, one could have believed the fate of the 1050 seal. That nay! Anxious to have a trail range of supplements, Triumph again gives the arguments with most roads of Tiger, by putting topspin on the ball and by re-electing it Tiger Sport. Motorization and left cycle is also optimized in order to reinforce its road quality. What to crack for Tiger of the medium? The answer is here…
Name Sport affixed on the side of new the head of fork has being beautiful of the most beautiful effect, nevertheless the first impression which the new grinding of Triumph Tiger 1050 leaves us is that of good road. In this whole beginning of day on the small sometimes, steep roads of the back-country inhabitant of Barcelona – traversed at quasi senatorial rhythm – the large trail of Hinckley shines first of all for its comfort.
Connections, ruts, potholes: the coating on which we evolve is sometimes imperfect, but the fondant of base and hydraulics of the suspensions spare the lumbar ones. The position of control is natural, the broad handlebar is lower and nearer to the pilot than before. The levers are adjustable and the positioning of the footrests avoids having with folding the knees too much.
The saddle is perched high (830 mm), to mount it as a result of request of the flexibility. For as much, the small gauges will feel compared to ease… “For little that they are not refractory with the idea to play the points” entrusts a colleague of 1.67 Mr. to us the others, larger, will have obviously more facility to operate this door and high machine, whose turning radius is not a strong point. At the end of half an hour the opener stops our convoy: the conk- plastered which is profiled in front of us will be the theatre of our first catch of sight. The tiger is now ready to leap, place with the action.
Not to trust appearances
The weather is beautiful, almost hot (14°C) and its bitumen is perfectly dry: what to charm the testers “always rolls” that we are, a tiny bit flayed by the cold and rainy winter which has prevailed on the Hexagon for several months. Caramba, one (finally) will be able to attack! And that falls well because our mounting of the day, explained us the day before the busy English engineers with the work of optimization of the frame, would be henceforth more intuitive in the sequences of turns, but also more stable.
By slightly closing the angle of the steering column (- 0,5°), by lengthening the footing and while making evolve the reversed fork (springs, valves and adjustments are new), Triumph 1050 Tiger Sport would be with final more reassuring, therefore more amusing, in sporting control. As bikescatalog reveals it, old Triumph Tiger 1050 was perfectible in this field:
Triumph would thus have aimed just in this succession of small turns, the new road Tiger of Hinckley does not leave us. The nose gear is a little fuzzy, the consequent mass transfer to braking causes a marked diving of the fork and on the angle, and we arrive very quickly at the limits ground clearance.
When the motorcycle is raised, the passage of the conk to the plastered has liked a corkscrew effect. We mention the problem with the English technical managers: they find explanation to the phenomenon quickly. At once the temperatures went up much and the adjustments of suspects initially planned for our rolling are not obviously good any more. Fortunately, with before as in the back the adjustable tangents are very accessible. Some clicks to harden the whole have an immediate positive effect.
Put a tiger in your engine!
Thus regulated, Triumph 1050 Tiger Sport shows itself easier to place as starter of turn. It is not divided and remains perfectly stable. The mass transfers are managed now better on breakings and on the angle its rigour reassures us. The information feedback of the nose gear progresses, but a light blur remains. Does fault with assemble origin, Pirelli Angel ST? We will not be able to affirm it for the moment. Always it is that via Maxitest, we await your various opinions on this subject and from possible precise details on behalf of those which will have chosen a different train.
Even hardened, Triumph Tiger Sport always distils a good comfort. The preserved pilot then fully benefits from his engine revisited to reinforce approval and the versatility with it. Box with air, line of exhaust and of course cartography of injection evolve. Handlebar in hands, the answer to the accelerator is instantaneous. The three legs tractor draws as of 3,000 tr/min, is done very vigorous beyond 6,000 tr/min, climbing easily to the interrupter placed at 10,000 tr/min. To 90 km/h, Triumph announces that its revisited block would consume fuel 7% in less. The scheme of this official presentation however did not allow us to check it.
Perfectible protection
Thanks to the flexibility of his engine, Triumph Tiger Sport is at ease in urban environment. One does about all on the same report, which finally is rather well because limps it rest always a little firm to handle. Side braking, the ABS not coupled of series is parameterized perfectly. At no moment we found it too intrusive. On this station of braking, our only critic relates to progressiveness with the lever.
With the attack of the fast tracks, the Tiger news does not miss the non-plus arguments. One cruise quietly with 130 km/h, his engine turns then to 5,000 tr/min, without vibration, in a rocky sonority of most flattering. Protection that we find well on the small roads shows its limits on the ribbons of motorway. Summit of the helmet, shoulders, and the pressure of the air is made from the start feel beyond legal speeds. The high bubble available to the catalogue of the brand will certainly make it possible to mitigate this imperfection.
Practical, cat-like English!
In order to reinforce the versatility and to make Triumph Tiger 1050 even easier to live with the daily newspaper, Triumph polished its practical aspects. Admittedly, the central crutch is not provided of origin, but one finds side with the easy deployment. Henceforth information of the instrument panel ravels thanks to a button which handles simply flick operated by the left inch. Tiger Sport makes the dead end on the posting of the outside temperature and the indicator of committed report. One finds nevertheless hazard lights on the road trail, but their order is placed on the instrument panel. As a result, it is necessary to release the handlebar of a hand and to leave the road of the eyes to light them.
Under the new saddle, a site makes it possible to place U and one also find systems to fix the slings easily. The comfort of the passenger is not in rest. This one has footrests placed at a suitable height and new broader and better integrated handles than before. Lastly, the amateurs of long journeys will be charmed to have (in option) the same side bags as on the top-of-the-range GT of Hinckley, the news Trophy 1200. A crash helmet is placed in the left and these bags are inclined slightly in curve, in order to limit the influence of the loading on the handling.
Assessment: Same Tiger, but optimized…
The news Triumph Tiger 1050 Sport naturally finds its niche in the Triumph range. Between light Tiger 800 and the adventurous one to explore 1200, it is the large road trail of the brand: practical and maid, of the daily convoying, only or to two, the ballades led to high rhythm. With a basic tariff fixed at 12,490 €, Triumph counts on a sales goal close to the 300 units from here the end of the year.
As the KTM 990 SMT or Yamaha TDM (which should disappear soon besides from the catalog), the electronic assistance are limited to ABS. Not the anti-skid one, and even less traction control here: Triumph is played it software to maintain a rate placed. This restyling will it be enough to start again the career of this motorcycle which never really knew of real success? Insofar as the owners of current Tiger are not disorientated with the handlebar of new the Sport, we let us not be completely convinced by it.
