The new Tiger 1200 ups the game with performance, equipment and comfort. We tested one in Scotland and on the long way down south to see how it works as a big-miles workhorse.
I’ve been away more than 20 years though, and in those two decades, I’ve not actually ridden bikes round Scotland much. So when I got an invite to ride the new 2018 Triumph Tiger 1200 round Loch Lomond, I was pretty excited. Even better, Mikko here at MSL suggested I ask about riding home to London – and the good folks at Hinckley gave me the nod. So, a day riding about Loch Lomond and the Trossachs, a night out in Glasgow toon, a jaunt back to Greenock to visit family, then the long dark teatime of the soul which is the M8/M74/M6/M42/M40 and M25 home to south London.
A tempting prospect then – although my constant checking of the weather forecasts throughout the Christmas break and into the New Year was tempering my enthusiasm a little. Scotland was getting hit hard, with feet of snow in the Highlands – had I bitten off more than I could chew?
I packed my kit bag like a man preparing for an assault on the Arctic.
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