TIGERS GROW BIGGER PAWS

TRIUMPH WANTS TO up the mark for both the Tiger 800 and 1200 from the previous models, so we headed off to northern NSW to find out just how good they’ve become. The launch for the new Tiger 800 and 1200 was a multi-day combination of both the XRT road biased version and the XCA off-road biased version.

First day was the XRT 800 and 1200. We rode up through many of the lovely twisty bitumen roads in northern NSW and southern QLD with a mix of some dirty stuff thrown in. On day two we did a bit of an ‘enduro’ style loop on the XCA 800 and 1200 which really showed just how much these bikes have indeed upped the mark. Then on day