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Five stars

Fantastic 5 stars for the Tiger !!!!

Shattering the cast wheels?? Seriously, this is a 600lbs bike. You won't be jumping off cliffs with it, it will spend 90% of it's time on the pavement, and a 10% on gravel roads. Where I live our roads are in very poor condition there's potholes in which you could fit a wheel in, and in over 100000km I never busted a wheel, and I had all sorts of bikes with all sorts of cast wheels. People that want to do serious off-roading, will not be looking at this bike. They'll be looking at a much more compact and lighter bike. This is basically a touring bike, with off-roadish capabilities. You can shop at KTM if off-roading is really your main usage. Even the GS they sell it as an adventure bike but 80% of customers at best do a little gravel road here and there.

Aren't the new breed of Adventure bikes just really tougher-looking sports tourers in reality? i know that's what I've used my two GS's, GS Adventure and current Ducati Multistrada 1200S for. If you REALLY want to ride on dirt then get a KTM 350 EXC-F. Though I appreciate these bikes can do a little off-road riding having done some on all the bike I just listed and more recently on a Triumph Tiger 800 with Conti knobblies fitted.

paulvti

you state " Conventional sports tourers are dead". Erm....... What a complete load of crap. If you are really suggesting that the entire sports touring type would swap their Busa's , Blackbirds, ZZR1400's, K1300s's,VFR1200's FJR1300's, ect ect for GS's Then sorry my cyber friend, you are deluded, it won't happen. May I suggest you go buy one, own one, ride one then you might understand why. I would agree that the 1050 is a good bike but it aint no Busa.

crustybiker!

It remains to be seen what the Triumph does to the gallon as there hasn't been one tested yet, but what about the awful oil consumption of BMW boxers. I have friends who tell me of a litre every thousand miles and the finish is nothing to write home about either. Theres also the problem with ABS on the BMs which is so expensive to fix, people usually delete it completely rather than fix it. Its swings and roundabouts. It also looks like the Triumph will be more user friendly with seat height which is a big thing with a lot of people. Yes, I know the BM has adjustable seat height and suspension mods to reduce even futher but have you seen one modded this way? It looks ridiculously low, like something has been dropped on it. Better to think it out in the design phase then it looks right.