Triumph Tiger 1200 Gen4 (2022 - )

[audiowize]

Yeah I didn't buy it, but I went along to help my riding buddy load it up.

 

[Sierra1]

I thought I remembered you asking about a Tiger-Tenere comparison, so I was wondering if "him" was you.

 

[audiowize]

No, a riding buddy has been lusting after one for a few years now and needed some help loading. He made it 3 days into ownership and there's a warning light, though I think maybe it's for the key fob battery.

 

[Tenman]

No, a riding buddy has been lusting after one for a few years now and needed some help loading. He made it 3 days into ownership and there's a warning light, though I think maybe it's for the key fob battery.

Tel him to turn the fob off when he parks it for an extended time. It eats the battery. You hold the button on the fob till it turns red.

 

[Tenman]

Talked to Triumph owner this weekend, owns a 2022 that he bought brandnew last year, has 4,500 miles on it now and was really liking it, transmission went out so it’s supposedly getting fixed under warranty, dealer loaned him a 2023 Yamaha FJR to use while the Triumph is getting fixed, they figure it will take at least a month to get it back on the road.

That most likely was a clutch going out. Not saying it couldn't be a trans but I've been on the Tiger Forum a while and haven't seen a comment on a transmission going out. Some were delivered with a notice to the dealers to do a bleed on the clutch slave cylinder and change a small spring. It is a simple thing to do. One guy smoked his clutch and had to load it up in a uhaul and drive 1500 miles home. Confidense shaker. I would put the blame on the guy setting it up at the dealership. He has everything that needs to be done to it right there on his laptop. 2 months waiting on some parts is kinda normal from what I'm seeing.

 

[SuckSqueezeBangBlow]

That most likely was a clutch going out. Not saying it couldn't be a trans but I've been on the Tiger Forum a while and haven't seen a comment on a transmission going out. Some were delivered with a notice to the dealers to do a bleed on the clutch slave cylinder and change a small spring. It is a simple thing to do. One guy smoked his clutch and had to load it up in a uhaul and drive 1500 miles home. Confidense shaker. I would put the blame on the guy setting it up at the dealership. He has everything that needs to be done to it right there on his laptop. 2 months waiting on some parts is kinda normal from what I'm seeing.

Yup, that was me! But it brings out a larger issue, the first mechanic went to fix it but needed a special tool to bleed the clutch and didn't have the spring anyway, then he broke the tool, on my third visit back it was finally fixed. Then when I got out to Sturgis and it broke down again, I took it to the second dealer and they said that it was bled wrong. When they bled it again they got a major amount of air out of the system. At the third dealer they said neither one of them did it correctly and as a result it burned the clutch plates. Others have said it is due to a bad batch of Slave Cylinders that were installed in the 2022 and early 2023 bikes. Plus you look at how you have to change the oil on it, by leaving the oil filter off until the oil is refilled otherwise it may cause an air lock. My point being it seems that more dealers do not know how to fix these bikes then do know how to fix them, and these are all dealers who should know what to do! Is it the transmission? I would doubt it but I would still take a look at that clutch.

 

[Sierra1]

Wow. The Tiger was the only other bike I would have considered over the Yamaha. Not that I had any immediate plans on replacing my boringly simple Tenesaur.

 

[SuckSqueezeBangBlow]

Whatever they did they seem to have quietly corrected it as I have not heard of the issue lately. Just not sure I would buy another Triumph, too bad as my friend's bike has been trouble free with one minor exception. If I could have designed a bike from the ground up and checked off every item I wanted this would have fit the bill perfectly.

 

[Sierra1]

. . . . this would have fit the bill perfectly.

Speaking of bills, the Triumph ain't cheap. Probably the biggest reason I stayed with Yamaha.

 

[Cycledude]

That most likely was a clutch going out. Not saying it couldn't be a trans but I've been on the Tiger Forum a while and haven't seen a comment on a transmission going out. Some were delivered with a notice to the dealers to do a bleed on the clutch slave cylinder and change a small spring. It is a simple thing to do. One guy smoked his clutch and had to load it up in a uhaul and drive 1500 miles home. Confidense shaker. I would put the blame on the guy setting it up at the dealership. He has everything that needs to be done to it right there on his laptop. 2 months waiting on some parts is kinda normal from what I'm seeing.

Turned out there was nothing wrong with transmission but some kind of debris in the clutch fluid , came that way from the factory, needed new lines and a bunch of other unavailable parts replaced under warranty but they said it was probably going to take a very long time to get the parts so they made him a nice deal to trade it for the FJR they had loaned him. He liked the Triumph but he wanted to ride and not deal with the crazy issues so he got rid of it.

 

[Checkswrecks]

Turned out there was nothing wrong with transmission but some kind of debris in the clutch fluid , came that way from the factory, needed new lines and a bunch of other unavailable parts replaced under warranty but they said it was probably going to take a very long time to get the parts so they made him a nice deal to trade it for the FJR they had loaned him. He liked the Triumph but he wanted to ride and not deal with the crazy issues so he got rid of it.

As so many of us here know, the FJR is also one of the most dependable bikes ever made.
Plus steel fist power in a velvet glove.

 

[Sierra1]

As so many of us here know, the FJR is also one of the most dependable bikes ever made.
Plus steel fist power in a velvet glove.

My second favorite Yamaha.