Nobody loves a Triumph triple more than Adventure Rider Magazine, and updates to the 2018 models mean we love them even more. The Tiger 1200 XRT is great example.
The last 1200 Triumph we rode we thrashed through northern Queensland and had to recover from a tricky situation on a very wet beach. That bike roosted around anywhere and everywhere and earned a special place in our list of favourites, especially as a long-distance tourer.
The new Tiger 1200XRT is the road-oriented version, and is as awesome and rip-snorting as ever, but Triumph’s updates to the bike are impressive.
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We’re in a bit of a rush because deadline is breathing down our necks and there seems to be a lot people shouting at us and sending nasty e-mails about getting the mag off to print, so in a nutshell, remembering this is the top-of-the-line XRT road-oriented dualsporter, here are the major updates as supplied by Triumph: