On road.
Commuting, 42miles a day, It is a dream to ride, avg about 40-42mpg coming into London and that is with a strong wrist. Pulls like an express train, and as I have heard before it is an off road sports bike. You just want to wind it up to hear that Triple engine note.
Normal road riding, is cool, have noticed though that the bars are a long way away, and I do get pins and needles in my wrists after about 1 1/2 Hours cont riding. I have my bike setup so I am on the highest seat position. The bar risers are flipped round to again the highest position. I am 6 foot but prefer to be high up, you see so much more. ABS is very good and it has kicked in a couple of times, but with no problems.
Standing on the pegs is good and this can be done with ease, of course first removing the rubber caps from the pegs, to make them the off road version. This is so easy to do, 5 second job.
I have the bigger screen fitted and it gives good enough cover from the wind. Can't complain.
The clearance from the floor is about 12 inches, going through the Ford at Eynsford, the soles of my boots get a little wet, but I have been through at 1 1/2 foot depth and start to get very wet, but what's a bit of water.
My Tiger has got the Triumph heated grips, used a couple of times when it was raining, my only complaint is that the hottest setting, isn't very hot. My 955 tiger's heated grips that i owned before were way hotter, so could be a pain in the winter when it gets really cold, I'm a all weather rider.
Paint work and finishing is mint, no complaints at all, bike still looks brand new and still and gets loads of looks.
Off road
This seems fine, does want to run away with you going down hill on steep lanes at slow speeds, but makes it more fun. The lanes are so dry at the moment I haven't bothered taking the ABS off so can't really talk about ABS off road, but so far it hasn't kicked in. I am still on the original tyres, but bike seems fine off road on these, will replace before the winter for more off road bias tyres.
Engine wise, no problems whatsoever, apart from a indicator bulb going after 10 days, but that was sorted out for free on the 1st service. All the controls seem to be in the right places and are easy to use.
Was riding behind my other half a couple of weeks ago, and she thought i was flashing her with the lights. I was not. I have also noticed a couple of car drivers dip their center mirrors when I ride behind them. This I can only conclude is because the lights are very bright and shine at a perfect height to go straight into a car. Not a big problem for me, as they know I'm there.
This is also the first bike I have had, where you can't actually turn the lights off, interesting.
So to include, the bike was well worth the money.
You can get to and from a green lane very very quickly, like riding a Z1000. And then the bike turns into an off road junky. So best of both words for me. Well happy.
Oh yeah this is pix with an ABR sticker in it.
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