VOL. 55 ISSUE 2 JANUARY 16, 2018 P67
BY ALAN CATHCART
PHOTOGRAPHY BY KINGDOM CREATIVE
Since then, a six-year production run
has seen Triumph deliver a healthy 26,800
examples of its top-end model to the global
marketplace, making it a no-brainer for the
British company to spend a sizeable slice of
its R&D resources developing an extensively
revamped Gen 3 version for 2018, with the
added benefit of Euro 4 compliance.
O
n making its debut at the EICMA
Milan show back in November
2011, Triumph's new 1200 triple, the
Tiger Explorer adventure tourer, was clearly
aimed at BMW's cash cow in the R 1200
GS Boxer—king of the adventure touring
segment and a bike that represents a quar-
ter of BMW's annual production.