2016 TRIUMPH TIGER 800 XCx

Time flies when you’re having fun. Seems like just the other day we got our Triumph Tiger 800 XCx, and already Triumph North America is wanting the British-built adventure-tourer back.

By the time I got my hands on “my” long-term testbike, it had 5,575 miles on the clock and a fairly fresh set of Avon TrailRider tires courtesy of the British firm sponsoring the Adventure Rally. While those tires worked great on the road, they honestly weren't much of an improvement over the stock Bridgestone Battle Wings and were likewise biased 90 percent on road/10 percent off. That seems an odd choice for the supposedly “off-roadready” model in the expansive Tiger 800 range, thus I was actually glad that 4,000 miles later the Avons were toast. That’s far