this is the triumph scrambler 1200 xe and we are going to give it a full and thorough
review as we always do now the xe version is very similar to the triumph scrambler xc
except the xc has a little bit more suspension so it's a bit taller and the swing arm here
is about that much longer than the xc now if you watch back on our videos a little while ago
we did a video about tall people and motorcycles and one of my suggestions is why don't they have
a base bike and offer an extended swing arm to lengthen the wheelbase and a bit more suspension
and here it is triumph have done just that now they've done it
in a small amount if they'd have taken that one step further and perhaps lengthen the swing on
by three or four inches and maybe the suspension by another couple of inches you'd have built the
ultimate tall guy bike so you could say we're the first manufacturer to make a motorcycle for
people who are six foot three plus one of our subscribers is six foot nine so even on this
version it's still going to look a bit small but with a nice long wheelbase it gives you stability
it visually looks better and you're going to get the sort of aesthetics for a taller person
this spike is equipped with the 1200 cc liquid cooled parallel twin which you see in a lot of
the other triumph models but of course they're tuned slightly differently this one in particular
produces 89 brake horsepower that's its peak power at 7400 rpm that's also 90 ps or 66.2 kilowatts
and it produces its peak torque which is 110 newton meters at 3950 rpm now the bike has
a wheelbase of 1570 millimeters and a rake of 26.9 degrees and a trail of 129.2 millimeters
um that combined with the size of the wheels the tyres the height etcetera make for a very
very quick steering bike and it seems to me that triumphs are always on that fine line where quick
steering um compromises stability so if you like a cruiser is over here with ultimate stability
and sort of commanding confidence inspiring ride and triumph for on the other end trying
to get that fine line between quick steering with just enough stability uh to be rideable
so this is kind of on that end of the spectrum it's a very quick steering bike so if you like
that it's going to be fabulous but that does give you less feeling of security and stability
now one of the the feelings you get from that sort of geometry you could call it twitchy
steering where a little movement normally makes a nice smooth transition but on this it's so quick
that it i would say it's on the borderline of being twitchy
some some people like that handling characteristic personally i prefer uh more stable geometry um so
you've got a 21 inch front wheel and a 17 inch back one and while we're on that topic the tyres
that it comes with are very much road biased if you're going to do a lot of off-road riding
these will be okay in dry weather but if you're in the in england it's mostly wet so wet english
byways you know lots of mud wet grass these tyres don't really give you any grip at all um
but you know any off-road bike's only as good as the tyres it comes with so
you would need to change to some knobbly tires if you're going to be doing mainly off-road riding
now this 1200cc engine is the same engine you get on all the modern classic triumphs and
depending on the model they vary how it performs and by by basically the compression ratio and by
the engine mapping so this is mapped more as a sort of on off-road motorcycle where some of the
others are more for road use um but saying that off-road you don't need a lot of power and a lot
of torque you i mean so really if you were totally into green laning and that was your only thing and
you just needed to get there on the road you'd be better off with a smaller capacity bike really of
say 450 or even a 250 cc because the other thing is a bigger engine is a heavier motorcycle
so the xc has 47 millimeter upside down forks and they're they come in this anodized gold color
which every manufacturer seems to be going for at the minute it's like a trend
but i think personally we think it would look better in silver it would go with the colours
of the bike more um but that just seems to be i don't know whether that's what people want but
that's what every manufacturer is doing at the minute um they've got 250 millimeters of travel
as opposed to the xc version that's got 200 millimeters of travel and you've also got
adjustable twin shocks on the rear and they've also got 250 mil of travel so one of the things
manufacturers do and they all do it is they give you the riding mode so you change it to
off-road mode to give you the sort of engine characteristics that are more suited to off-road
riding and that will be the same with an adventure bike and if you were thinking between this and the
adventure bike well personally i think this is far better looking personally adventure bikes
to me are the most ugly motorcycles on the road i don't like them at all this looks beautiful
so you could actually use it as an adventure bike and i'm sure there
i know there are luggage options for it and there's various accessories
uh many accessories for this bike so you could sort of get it to be what you want it to be
now if you watch our channel and you've seen some of our other videos you'll know that we're
not particularly a big fan of modes and the main reason for that is as i've said in other videos
if you get used to the bike in one mode and then you change to another mode say you're
used to it in normal and you go into sport it becomes much more responsive and that
sometimes can catch you out on the bike it can be a bit more mental if you like
so that's one of the reasons we don't like modes and another subscriber commented recently that you
may inadvertently change to another mode and not not realize and open up the throttle and suddenly
you're in sport when you thought you're in rain um so there is a bit of a an issue with modes but
saying that when you change the modes on this it doesn't alter the characteristics of the bike that
noticeably um and we tried it in all the different modes and we did some riding on the grass and
we put it in off-road pro which is supposed to turn the traction control off but as you'll see
it came in pretty hard so it didn't let us move very far so if you're on very slippery grass um
you'd have to sort of play with the settings because we couldn't get the bike to move along
at all the triumph scrambler xe starts at 12 300 pounds uh of course depends what
option and extras you go for as to how much it will cost you so as we mentioned earlier
this bike's got numerous modes of which are rain road off-road off-road pro it's also got sport
mode and then there's a rider customizable mode so um after you've spent a bit of time with the bike
and you know what you like you can customize the mode to make the bike how you like it
now this triumph comes with the extreme inspiration kit which basically the main thing
you notice is the higher front mud guard you've got the arrow exhaust you've got a different
light set up with the indicators at the back and you've got this guard down here which is a
little close to me i keep kicking it with my feet because i've got a massive feat you've also got
the headlight bezel and a guard on the front there which makes it quite hard to clean actually
and you've also got the side stand base extension which gives you a fatter side stand so it doesn't
sink into the mud if you park it off-road it also has the machined oil filler cap and this black
handlebar brace i'd recommend that kit because it looks really nice the xc has got a seat height of
millimeters and i'm about six foot two and as you can see there's plenty of room on the bike for me
um the old man's around six foot three and there's plenty of room for him as well so it's much more
suited for taller riders if you're not so tall you'd probably want to go for the xc version
now as you'll notice i'm wearing one of our new designs this will be live by the time the video
goes up we have got this already on for the darker color shirts but this one's for the
design especially for the white and it's got a very nice back print as you can see my one is
personalized to me being test rider but the back print will be a little bit different but the
front will be the same so these are really lovely quality i love this long sleeve i'm six foot three
this is a 2xl i go to the gym so you can gauge from me what size you get but the sizing is very
accurate um i'm wearing one of our new designs on a hoodie and i really like this design it's also
in t-shirts um sweatshirt as well we're going to have lots more long sleeves and some hoodies and
stuff as it's winter it's cold so um really nice it's also got a really nice backpack on it as well
furthermore on the topic of the seat it's got a bench seat which is really nice
because it means you can move around on the seat a lot of adventure bikes have got a step seat where
it restricts you from moving backwards especially off-road that's a restricting factor so full
marks on this seat now it's got a 16 litre fuel tank and it does 4.9 liters per 100 kilometers
or 58 miles per gallon if you're going to be doing a lot of off-roading with this bike
it's important to note that it's quite hard to clean this has the accessory guard on the radiator
and although it does protect the radiator when the mud does get through it's harder to clean
to get it out and this is quite a condensed engine there's quite a lot stuffed into a
into the package so it's quite hard to get in and behind everything to get all the dirt out
um this weighs 207 kilograms um in road bike terms that's pretty average for a bike of this capacity
um in off-road terms it's quite heavy um and i'd say this bike's more of a road bike that's got
a little bit of off-road capability rather than an off-road bike that's all right on
the road if you are looking at this bike you might also be looking at an adventure bike
it's important to note that if you are only going to do commuting and the odd bit of off-roading
you're much better off with something like this it's a better looking bike and it would be a
lot more fun to do that if you want to do 10 000 mile journey across africa then get an adventure
bike but um i think most people who do have them don't do that on them another feature to mention
this bike's got tubeless tyres so you've got no inner tube and that's why the rooms
look slightly different you can see the spokes are laid round the edge of the rim
we try our best not to mention too many figures um you can get all the figures
on the triumphs website um if we said all the figures we'd end up being here for 50 minutes
so we give you the outlining main figures but the brakes on this bike you've got twin discs at the
front and a single at the back they're made by brembo and they are actually really really good
if you do pull really hard you can feel the abs working as well so top marks on the brakes and
we've just had to switch over to the old mic because the new one that we've got has
just gone flat we've used it for about seven videos and the old man's forgot to charge it
but it's not too windy today so hopefully you shouldn't hear any wind noise
just want to say about the exhaust it does get quite hot so on a cold day today like today in the
uk it's very cold in the winter we quite enjoyed it it keeps you warm but in in the summer when
it's hot or in a hotter country it's probably not going to be a nice thing for it to be that hot on
the sound of it it does sound gives you nice tone it's not very loud but it got a comply with the
regulations
it's got heated grips cruise control and a usb socket as standard and it's really nice to have
these heated grips on a really cold day like today or pretty much every day in this time
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