“Got a good high riding position and is comfy on long runs. Handles well in the corners and is quite sure footed for a big boy. With the addition of a top box along with the supplied panniers you can easliy carry enough stuff for a week away. The heated grips have 2 settings which work very well and quickly if you need them. The screen is a little low if you're a big chap, but with a taller flip top screen it does the job well. With 200 miles range on a tank full of gogo juice it means less stopping at fuel stations. Would recommend a 955 Tiger to anyone.”
“Comfortable ride and lots of poke on this bike. Not a bike for the shorter of leg though. The standard charging system on the tiger 955i is shockingly bad so after spending £250 getting aftermarket parts and 3 batteries later it's all fine.”
“This is the second tiger I've bought so I know this bike will last a long time and it's very comfortable as well as a pleasure to ride for short and long trips
Having had 28 bikes so far this is one of the best bikes I've had”
“Owned 5 tigers in various guises- brilliant all rounder. Comfy two up, even when rear shock goes soggy after leaving the showroom - still predictable handling you can depend on. Surprisingly able, especially on back roads. Good luggage except for silencer side - half a pannier not much use.
Engine has plenty of go and will cruise fully loaded at 80 with ease. Sane enough to keep my license - good balance of everyday usability with the ability to surprise if needed.
Easy to service and maintain- very reliable.
Triumph Heated grips best ever used.
Fuel injection plays up when starting from warm occasionally- let idle for a few mins and runs fine - try immediate ride off and will splutter on hot days.
Tried explorer 1200 with cash in pocket- left on the 955 with a £7500 saving - still happy with decision 2years and 14k miles later.
Starting to look dated - front on looks a pig - good from rear end ( a bit like the missus!)”
“I bought a low millage 2004 model, only 3,000 on the clock. Seemed like a good idea, but then the first bug to come up was the petrol gauge getting stuck. The next was intermittent overheating, the thing must be rusted up inside through lack of use or something. In fact it's still in Spain waiting to be shipped back.
It's heavy at low speed with a high engine weight so if you aren't a big person then you can drop it easily. Manoeuvring in and out of awkward spaces on hills etc. You have to plan where to stop and turn. Which means that it doesn't give you the freedom you associate with a bike.
You can get into the most stupid situations, especially in Spanish hill towns with cobbled roads, tight and twisting. Turn tight on a incline and miss your footing and it leans over, to the extent that it's going to go, and all you can do it let it fall in a controlled way. You won't stop it....????? Yeah you have to be able to ride quite well and be confident, pussy with it and it will wobble. Be confident and positive with it, not reckless of course. In fact when I first got it I had no idea it was top heavy, so I just blasted it and it responded well. But then I dropped it trying to get through the front gate and up a slope and that lost my confidence with it. (Off road? Yeah it can be done, but how many times do you drop a bike off road. Can you pick this bike up again?)
At speed it handles well, and it's fast for a tourer. It's not great on petrol, average I suppose.
Touring? The roads in Spain are a bit of a nightmare, in built up areas they can be very smooth and covered in an oil film etc. Not all the roads but you have to continually asses the road surfaces as you go, anything shiny, slow down, smooth on the throttle like in the rain. The roundabouts can be lethal, and the Tiger is ass heavy when loaded, the grunt will spin your back wheel. But then it holds okays, it doesn't lose it all at once. You can let the back go a little bit.
Could probably do with a steering damper.
It catches the wind on motorways.
It's comfortable, but then all in all, you may as well buy a bloody car with a soft top.
If you drop a Tiger in the middle of nowhere, you will be lucky if you can pick it back up on your own without doing your back in. Even if you can do that back push thing, which is fine if it went down non stand side. If you are pushing from the stand side it may well go over the other way when you get it up...
And it may look slightly off roady but it's really NOT.
And you have to ask...... why would you buy a bike that you can't pick up if it goes down?
I think it's time they made a better bespoke tourer. Smaller engine with an overdrive for motorways. Something you can off road.
Yes the engine won't last, but then tour it, rebuild it, like a motocrosser maybe?
Tourers..... It's a strange concept really. Left field view but touring on a motorcycle is brain fart really. Adventure? Well it will turn in to an adventure, maybe not the one you like.
The big engine in a Tiger makes sense when you are doing high millage on a freeways and A roads. You are glad of the extra CC's but then I always associate bikes with freedom and touring is really not like that, not on a big bike.
I saw many people traveling in Spain this year, stressed by their unwieldy bikes.
The bike becomes 'how you got there' rather than a toy you took with you.
It has to be said... I saw a guy who bought a new Trophy with full luggage and his wife on the back. He couldn't even speak getting it off the ferry he was that stressed.
All subjective.
The Tiger.... well It's not my favourite bike....
It has it's moments, it can be nimble at speed....but no, it's a constant weight around your neck, not freedom.”
