New Triumph 1200 Scrambler - Thoughts?

As a full on dirt bike no but as a adventure bike yes the Triumph 1200 motors are pretty good, they have heaps of torque, smooth to ride, compared to the old Triumph scramblers the new ones have better sespension, a lot more travel and ground clearance and they look good, they be good traveling the outback of Australia or forest trails, but I am not going to trade my Thuxton 1200S for one and I will keep my Honda CRF450X for the serous off road adventures.

Ashley
 
I think it’ll be a big seller, comfortable, capable and bang on trend. Those Thai workers will be on maximum overtime banging ‘em out as faster as they can...!
 
Assembly of Triumph's modern classics line occurs in Triumph's Thailand manufacturing facility.
 
You can knock Thailand as much as you like but the factory is the same as the one in Britain, Triumph source their parts world wide just like any other manufactours do so not everything is made there, just like in Britain they are all assembled and shipped from both factories world wide, remember the old days of British motorcycle industries the troubles they had, look at Triumph now and how successful they become, Norton has a long way to go before they even come close to Triumph, I own two moden Triumphs Thruxtons and could buy two for the price of one New Norton and they are so reliable, I just hop on my Triumphs and go whether short ride or traveling with a full load all over our large state or country knowing it will get me there.
I am sure the new Scamblers will be the same and set at a decent price.

Ashley
 
I own two moden Triumphs Thruxtons and could buy two for the price of one New Norton and they are so reliable, I just hop on my Triumphs and go whether short ride or traveling with a full load all over our large state or country knowing it will get me there.

Both of them have got a long way to go , to match ' the original' s ' competition record .
 
You can knock Thailand as much as you like but the factory is the same as the one in Britain, Triumph source their parts world wide just like any other manufactours do so not everything is made there, just like in Britain they are all assembled and shipped from both factories world wide, remember the old days of British motorcycle industries the troubles they had, look at Triumph now and how successful they become, Norton has a long way to go before they even come close to Triumph, I own two moden Triumphs Thruxtons and could buy two for the price of one New Norton and they are so reliable, I just hop on my Triumphs and go whether short ride or traveling with a full load all over our large state or country knowing it will get me there.
I am sure the new Scamblers will be the same and set at a decent price.

Ashley

Easy gentlemen, let's declare peace.
I'm not knocking Thailand production plants.
I own a Hinckley Triumph.
Just answering cliffa's posted question.
 
Easy gentlemen, let's declare peace.
I'm not knocking Thailand production plants.
I own a Hinckley Triumph.
Just answering cliffa's posted question.

I am not making a big deal about it just explaining that they are mostly assembled in the plants most parts are souced world wide and parts arrive fully assembled before putting all together, but a lot of people always make comments about where they are built but they don't realize both assembly plants get their parts from the same source.

I laugh at a lot of my mates who have gone down the Harley way and are one side in their addtude about being American made, but they get a surprise when they need two lots of tool sets when working on them imperial tools for the US made parts and metric for the parts sourced from the rest of the world, but then they never work on their own bikes.

Ashley
 
I own two moden Triumphs Thruxtons and could buy two for the price of one New Norton and they are so reliable, I just hop on my Triumphs and go whether short ride or traveling with a full load all over our large state or country knowing it will get me there.

Both of them have got a long way to go , to match ' the original' s ' competition record .

Maybe Triumph today have nothing to prove by comperition records, they have proved themselfs by selling bikes all over the world and look at some of the models that have clocked long miles without being rebuilt with only general maintenance being done to them as well it cost a lot of money these days to race, maybe Triumph just want to spend the money developing new and better models instead of winning races to prove themselves.

Ashley
 
Well, on the subject of Triumph scramblers, I’ve always liked these:

New Triumph 1200 Scrambler - Thoughts?
 
Well, on the subject of Triumph scramblers, I’ve always liked these:

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Yes they are a nice looking scrambler I brought a brand new 1981 Triumph Thunderbird the Us model and beside it in the show room was a new scrambler,I was orginaly going to buy a new Bonnie but the blue and silver paint on the Thunderbird got me but that scrambler also had my eye on it, if I remember correctly they were called a Tiger.

Ashley
 
TR7T Tiger Trail was their full designation I believe Ash.

They also made a handful of 650 short stroke versions based on the Thunderbird, the TR65T Tiger Trail, I’ve never seen one in the metal though.
 
Maybe Triumph today have nothing to prove by comperition records, they have proved themselfs by selling bikes all over the world and look at some of the models that have clocked long miles without being rebuilt with only general maintenance being done to them as well it cost a lot of money these days to race, maybe Triumph just want to spend the money developing new and better models instead of winning races to prove themselves.

Ashley
Triumph are supplying the engines for moto2 in the near future.
Triumph 675 triples race in both supersport series for BSB and WSB - as they have 3 cyclinders, they are allowed to race the 600's
Triumph are still active in competition.
 
Wait,till you see the Norton Scrambler..................

The only problem with a Norton Scrambler is they will be so over priced when they get here in Aussie land, dealers be far and few as they are now and its easier to get parts for the older Nortons than the newer ones, no thanks I stick to my modern Triumphs and my older Norton.

Ashley
 
TR7T Tiger Trail was their full designation I believe Ash.

They also made a handful of 650 short stroke versions based on the Thunderbird, the TR65T Tiger Trail, I’ve never seen one in the metal though.

Yes thats it my Thunderbird was a TR65 with the short stroke engine it was so relible and with the single carbie pulled like a train I put a Joe Hunt maggie on it had it for over 9 years and clocked over 250k kms without any problems at all and always started first kick everytime, only done a top end rebuild just before I sold it, sorry I ever sold it was one of the best bikes I ever owned and had a lot of fun on it, it was my only transport in those 9 years.

Ashley
 
Triumph are supplying the engines for moto2 in the near future.
Triumph 675 triples race in both supersport series for BSB and WSB - as they have 3 cyclinders, they are allowed to race the 600's
Triumph are still active in competition.

Thats good just don't hear much about them here, but then I don't watch much motorcycle racing on the box

Ashley
 
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