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The Scrambler is about exactly as good for off-road as the current Tiger is. Meaning, you can do it with either if you're a glutton for punishment, but both are far from optimized for the job.
Remember, the picture linked by daytonatom is only an artist's concept, and a montage of existing bike parts at that. If Triumph were to give it some off-road ambitions, it certainly wouldn't have those tires, for instance. It would be entirely practical to adapt the 675 suspension to produce a very light and nimble machine that's much better suited to the wilderness than any of the existing Triumphs. And that is also the answer to Mudhen's objection:
> May as well be the same as the one they've got now...why would they bother with that? Just the reduced price point?
Not hardly! First consider at the difference between the Street Triple and the Speed Triple...not so much in purpose, but there's almost 50 pounds of weight difference. The "little brother" ends up being very nimble. Now consider that even in its modern slimmed-down version, the Tiger weighs 436 pounds dry, a good 20 pounds more than the S3. Can you imagine what a difference there would be offroading a bike that's maybe as much as 70 pounds LIGHTER?
(In reality, it probably wouldn't be quite that much, as they'd want to beef up the suspension a bit. But still, it'd be a huge improvement over the big Tiger.)
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Last edited by Diego : 08-17-2007 at 09:55 PM.
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