Triumph 675 Tiger Cub

Triumph hit a home run with the Daytona 675 triple, and you can bet that the Street Triple will be a huge hit as well. Triumph has been paying close attention to the market segments over the past few years, and jumping in with new and revised models to fill the gaps in their model line up. What’s next? A 675-powered adventure sport. Rumour has it that Triumph will be introducing a “Tiger Cub” in the near future. It’s not much of a rumour. It will happen. The question is when. It will likely be in the 2009 model year and in street trim, similar to the Tiger 1050 big brother. The Tiger Cub will be leaning more toward a heavy Supermoto capable of lightweight touring, using 17” wheels and equipped with street oriented accessories, maybe even standard hard panniers like other existing Triumph models. Other manufacturers are already tapping into this market with bikes like the Kawasaki Versys 650 and Suzuki V-Strom 650. The Tiger Cub would share a similar role. Hopefully we will see a true Dual-Sport oriented Tiger Cub to follow. A true Dual-Sport using the 675 triple could present some serious potential and steal some of the market share away from the Kawasaki KLR650, the BMW F650 series, and others. It only makes sense.