Wednesday 11th September 2013

Triumph Explorer goes exploring: Time for Tea?

One Triumph takes on Knockhill, the beach and a forest in an amazing video

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So Frankfurt has sated our appetite for all things fresh and four-wheeled, at least for a couple of months. In fact, we may have gorged on new cars a bit excessively, so today's Time for Tea? switches to two wheels.

Press photos not from Scotland...

This Triumph vid was brought to our attention by PH2's Jon Urry; if you can provide this sort of stuff regularly Jon, it's your show! But anyway, the clip is a promo for Triumph's Tiger Explorer 1200 bike; it appears Triumph was keen to push the 'Explorer' aspect...

After picking the bike up from Triumph Glasgow (clearly a big-budget production), Triumph's stunt rider Kevin Carmichael is off to do some exploring. He starts at Knockhill with some rather outrageous drifts and is then off to a rather picturesque beach for more skids, slithering around a Defender and a speedo-indicated 140mph. Brave man.

A very fast run through a very muddy forest (the sun has clearly disappeared by this point) concludes Kevin's spectacular exploring before getting the bike (and him!) cleaned back to showroom freshness.

Cool vid this one, an alternative to our usual stuff. Back to four wheels soon!

Enjoy

[pcn1]

and thats why you should never buy an ex-demo.....

[ellisd82]

some amazing riding skills for a big bike like that!

[Frimley111R]

pcn1 said:

and that's why you should never buy an ex-demo.....

I was expecting him to ride it back to the showroom and then for someone to say ^^^^^^

[dapearson]

Not sure i get it.

[PIGINAWIG]

Good promo vid. Not many riders are that capable. Nice bike too.

[sledge68]

How to use an adventure bike, not all of us can ride like that but there are long distance rallies that you could use this bike on.

Shame as most of them will be ridden from cafe to cafe on a Sunday, only if its dry of course.

[spoodler]

Hmmm... that "very muddy forest" road is in substantially better nick (with a better surface, less potholes and less gravel) than my local roads. Hardly showing off the capabilities of an adventure bike... That said, he looks like he can ride it...

[nightflight]

I've got one of those on my shortlist. Presently riding a Tenere, but will swap it in a couple of years. It'll be the Triumph, BMW GS, or Ducati Multisrada GT.

[abw280]

140mph............on soft sand!

Looks like the beach scene was somewhere near Prestwick??

[anonymous-user]

I have been stuck between one of these and a ZZR 1400 for my next bike. Current bike is a ZX12 so the ZZR makes most sense but after seeing this, I'm not so sure. Brilliant piece of marketing!

[jackh707]

What are the OEM road tyres on these, looked like a Tourance NEXT from the gopro shot of the rear?

[Nero601]

impressive for a big bike , reminded me of this guy


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20XsaHpRQC8

[LordPetroleum]

Massive hairy bo11ocks on that guy, some driftastic skills and that is not a light bike.

Used to ride an Aprilia Pegaso and that was similar for the rear tyre spreading drift, he is in a different class though.

Liking the look of the new Yam MT09 as my next ride tho.

[graham22]

Makes a change from Adventure bike owners comparing sat-navs & hard luggage.

[Hammerhead]

Brilliant! Loved the bike/biker wash at the end

[Tonto]

Thats pretty much how I ride my Tiger Explorer when I nip down to the shops.

[bleunos]

What a brilliant video!

Upmost respect to that guy - that was some amazing riding.

anyone know what the music is?

[bleunos]

don't worry, it's Django Django - wor

pretty cool.

shame car ads / promos can't be like this anymore - it's what we all want to see