07 Apr 2015

Triumph Tiger 800 XRx: We tweak its tail

DRIES VAN DER WALT

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<b>EARNING ITS STRIPES:</b> The 2015 Triumph Tiger 800 is available in two versions - the road-biased XR and off-road-biased XC. This is the XRx. <i>Image: Wheels24 / Dries van der Walt</i>

It's a fact of motorcycling life that a great many adventure bikes spend most, if not all, of their time on tar roads. Several manufacturers have acknowledged this and offer tar road-biased motor-cycles that retain the rugged, macho appearance of adventure bikes.

Triumph, with its Tiger 800, has done so with two versions: the road-biased XR and off-road-biased XC.

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