Triumph Tiger 900 Rally Honest Review

The king of... exactly - what? There's one area in which the Tiger 900 Rally wins the competition in its class. In this video I'm telling you what it is and sharing my honest thoughts about this motorcycle after spending some time with it.

All views are my own and are based on my personal experiences with the Tiger 900 Rally. Stay tuned and subscribe for more middleweight adventure bikes and comparisons between them on the channel!

[KamikazeJoeNYC]

The triumph quickshifter is leagues better than the BMW GS. The clutch lever can be adjusted as far in as you want. It’s a cable clutch, just spin the nob on the cable… The handlebars aren’t too far forward, you are just sitting too far back on your seat lol. You’ll have WAY more control if you sit your butt all the way forward on your seat. Keep your toes tucked inward, not outward, with the ball of your foot on the pegs. The 900 rally pro is also an incredible bike off-road.

[nkwd]

Strange to be honest... I have been riding this bike for 2 years now. I tour the Alps 3 times. I have no issues what so ever with handlining. It swallows the difficult mountain twisties easily, I was even surprised I was going on difficult road better than others around me on sport touring bikes?? And I only have motorcycle licence for 2.5 years, so I am by no means super experience or great rider, so it was mostly bikes abilities. In my opinion it is close to perfection for all rounder, explorer bike.

[_hold_the_line_]

Good review, thanks. Please test the updated version when it becomes available, and how does it respond to counter steering for leaning into corners?

[Rosscofat]

rear brake level can be adjusted by flipping the peg.... reviewers not knowing how the bike works sucks. Just need to rotate the peg of the rear brake pedal and it lowers it.

[dhcguru]

Judging from the service light and what appears to be be long over service days along with no doubt being an abused press bike. That’s probably why your seeing transmission issues. My 900 Rally shifts butter smooth and doesn’t jump outta gear.

[thiagoghiggi]

I´m really surprised about your bad experience with the transmission and quick shifter. Among my 20 year motorcycling and after owning several bikes (at least 30!), a securely say that my Tiger has one of the best transmissions ever...silky smooth and a much better quick shifter than my previous GS's. Cheers.

[johnnyboy]

I think you can adjust the handle bars back as theres three positions

[MCHCharlie]

I think I've said it before, but I'll say it again. This is what I really like about you. You simply tell it like it is. I'm not knocking triumph, even the japanese brands are making some half baked models. The japanese bikes are known for their reliability. Can't wait to see you review the 24 model mt09 and mt10 😊

[PovilasPanavas]

GEAR LEVER POSITION. That's funny. I'm 183cm, and just test road 2024 Rally Pro (there are no changes for these things between models as far as I know). My issue was, that I asked to investigate if the gear lever can be put higher, because it was leaving markings on my boots much further than the rubber patch of the boot which is meant for the lever. I was basically lifting up the lever with ends of my toes in a weird angle. The lever are simply too low on the demo bike, thus to be able to push it up, one needs to make an angle of ankle forward so much, that it became painful after some time of riding. It simply must be higher, otherwise boot doesn't fit under. If I was riding with shoes, I guess it would be fine, but boots just doesn't fit under.

IT IS ADJUSTABLE. I asked the salesman, he went to check with mechanics and he came back with the answer: "yes, it can be put higher, but it will require quick-shifter calibration". I asked if it would be extra or included in the bike price, and was told "It's not extra, adjustment will be free".

[suneelthedead]

At 6 ft tall, I have a feeling your posture on the Tiger is not ideally the way this style of motorcycle is meant to be ridden. That's the only explanation for your reach issues with the handlebar. I recommend you watch Chris Birch's 'Say No To Slow' series for ADV riding. It helped me dramatically and made me realize how terrible my form, positioning and riding style was for dirt oriented adventure bikes. The Tiger 900 RP is set up to be ridden like a dirt bike/supermoto with respect to posture. Balls of your feet on the pegs, arms wide, back leaned forward over the tank to create right angles at your elbows. This posture helps you throw the bars into countersteer while keeping your balance point neutral. There should be slight pressure through your feet at all times, ready to load them so your butt is never absorbing big bumps, but your knees are.
Keeping this style of posture I have had no reach issues whatsoever with the bars on my RP, and we are about the same height.

[Fernando]

A fine review of the 900 Tiger rally version, which is the channel's brand image.
I was impressed by your opinion about the comfort of the suspensions. Do you compare them to BMW 1250 GSA comfort?
I'm a little upset with the strong change that BMW has made to the GS, not the overall technological enhancements which I aplaude, but the narrowing of the bike in general terms was a deception for me. I hope they don’t mess up the same way with the GSA version, because in that case I might be open to other Market proposals like Triumph Tiger 1200 GT…I enjoy big bikes and if they go on shrinking the entire lineup, I must start looking elsewhere for strong heavy hardware bikes, because that’s what I like in big bikes, not the slimmest, not the small types, but the heavy duty type of bikes. I like powerful and kinda heavy, solid bikes that endure all type of work we throw on them. So, this far, BMW was my best pattern, but I’m feeling they might want to go on different direction, “less is more”, and those kind of thoughts. And I’m all ears and eyes nowadays.
Thanks once again! ✌️✌️

[Rokicruiser]

Best transmission into it's class, especially quickshifter compared to KTM 890, Husky Norden. Very nice engine with smooth power delivery great being off road. Perhaps you have got a bad unit? Can not really see most of your points during my 6000km on the Tiger RP. Cheers.

[maldridge]

Finally an "honest" review, phew! 🙄

...does that mean we should forget about the past reviews? 🤔

Joking - awesome as always 😁😁😁

[PovilasPanavas]

QUICK-SHIFTER. I test road 2023 GT Pro, and 2024 both Rally Pro and GT Pro. You also mentioned that gear lever position is too low. Gear lever position is set up together with quick-shifter calibration. It sounds, like something was set up wrong on that bike. There is no better quick-shifter in the market than Tiger 900. It's the smoothest of all both up and down. The gear lever is the lightest as well. It can be used even to go first to second and vice versa, no need to release throttle. And it's still smooth. I tried DesertX, Husqvarna 901, KTM 890, GS 1300, Suzuki 800RE, Honda Transalp. No one is even close to the perfection of Tiger 900 quick-shifter. Something was clearly wrong with your bike, it needs to be sent to dealership for fixing/calibrating.

[henryvaneyk]

Hi. I think there was something wrong in the gearbox setup of your bike, as I have this exact bike (Aragon), and never experienced issues with it. I fact, it's quick-shifter is better than my KTM 1290 Adv R.

[woodywood]

I have a Tiger 850 Sport with a quickshifter and I have had ZERO problems after 20, 000km riding. I suspect you just had bad luck because, in my experience, the Triumph quickshifter is excellent.

[ansumanmishra]

How is the suspension when compared with suzuki vstorm 800 de. You mentioned that suzuki’s was as good as bmw 1250. So what would be your conclusion now after driving the 900 rally

[brianErickson-bxhp]

It’s an off road motorcycle and you didn’t ride it off road. You can’t complain about the handling.

[PovilasPanavas]

CLUTCH LEVER POSITION. The bite point of clutch is adjustable. For example, I road Honda Transalp in one dealership and the bite was in about the middle of the move. I rode Transalp in another dealership, and the bite was at the end of move. Thus, it was very hard to ride, exactly how you describe it. But it's again adjustable thing.
However, I agree, that the lever closest position on Tiger 900 should be much closer than it is. We both 183cm, there's no reason why our hands should feel like the lever should be even closer thant the closest possible position. But for comparison the new GS 1300 is even worse! It's not even ridable.

[PoleSilvija]

I have triumph tiger 900 gt pro, in comparison with bmw gt, transmission and quick shifter works so enjoyable. I tried different bmw but nothing works so perfect as triumph quickshifter. And brakes are good, bmw gs 850 and 750 brakes are so bad, I was in couple dangerous situations with bmw