2024 Triumph Scrambler 1200 X review - sell-out or the best Scrambler yet?
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- čas přidán 30. 07. 2024
- The 2024 model year has seen some small but significant changes to Triumph’s Scrambler 1200 range - here I take the new Srambler 1200 X out for a run around the Yorkshire Dales to see if this more road-optimised version makes sense … or dumbs it down and dilutes what made the XC it replaces such a great all-rounder.
For the other extreme check out my video on Triumph’s entry-level Scrambler, the new 400 X here: • Triumph Scrambler 400X...
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Nice in depth, review. I have the 2022 Street Scrambler. If the 1200 x handles as well as the 900, i'm in!
Man, you have the best channel name, Nice vídeo, got a new subscribe
Haha, thanks! 👍
Great review, kind of got my eye on one of these.... hmmm I like it more and more. Going to have to get myself a test ride real soon me thinks 🙂
I absolutely think you should - but I'd make sure you have funds available if you do, because you're likely to find yourself signing on the line after based on my experience!
Has Triumph "dumbed down" the XE/XC"? No, they've just made the X more road focused and a natural step up from a Street Scrambler 900 IMO and that is exactly what I am doing. The XE has more "offroad" spec but has a HUGE achilles heel, it's weight at 230kg is 100kg overweight for any remotely serious off road use. It may have premium long travel suspension but it sort of reminds me of a shot putter in tights and a tutu. I have an Enduro bike at 115kg and even that can be a handful. Triumph should make a road legal Enduro version of their TF250 for off road and green laning use IMO. I REALLY like the styling and ride of the Street Scrambler and the 1200X is much closer to that look which is why it caught my eye.😀 After 40+yrs on top end superbikes I find the modern classics a refreshing change.
Personally I'm not bothered about rider modes, "intelligent" ABS and TFT screens etc etc but it seems to be the way of things these days. Picking up the new ride next week!😃👍
Hopefully you got past my deliberate clickbait title, watched to the end and saw I concluded pretty much the same! Enjoy the new ride!
@@midlifecrisismotorcyclist Yes, I did watch the full vid but I never thought much about the title TBH! I just saw the "1200X review" and clicked to get another rider's views on the new bike as I have done with many similar videos recently!😂 If I like a bike I'm not overly concerned wether anyone else likes it or not but it is interesting to see and hear other's impressions, especially someone like yourself who hasn't been road riding that long.👍 I know for a fact that many sports bike riders scoff at the modern classics but WGAS! Just for the record I also own a ZZR1400 which, while not a "sports" hack is a fantastic long distance mile eater with performance in a different league to the Scramblers!😂
Explains why so many people end up droping them when they go offroad
Lovely bike quite fancy one myself
Hi. Really enjoyed the video thanks. And the 1200 X is a great looking bike, especially in that colour.
Seems you ride many of the same roads I do. It looked like you were on the Sedbergh to Hawes road, which is one of my fave’s on a late summers evening when there’s virtually no traffic. Grassington to Greenhow isn’t too shabby either.
Looking forward to the next one. Keep up the good work👍🏍
Thanks and, yes, we do alright for roads here, don’t we. Can’t wait for those summer evenings you describe as well - hope to see you out there some time and share a brew! Glad you liked the vid and plenty more where this came from!
Hi great video on the scrambler great riding roads up there I’m from Essex near Colchester so quite a distance for a ride I’ve been on holiday up there couple times I love it up there I ride a triumph rocket 3gt and love that but am thinking of the scrambler 1200 but the blingey one xe or xc can’t remember which one but I’m also triumph bobber 1200 as well haps have all 3 😂😂if only anyway loved the vid now going to watch your other videos ride safe take care
Thank you for your viideos! I think the great lost was the cruise control. Up to now, I don´t have news if possible to buy it after market, as an accessory at Triumph website! If it was possible, please, let me know if you could! Thank you!
is it true, the heat from the high exhaust pipe is unbearable?
On a cold day like the one I was shooting on it was actually rather nice! Didn’t notice it as a problem on the the 900 I rode before, either. If I ever ride one in the sunshine I’ll let you know!
No. The original had the catalytic converter right under the leg, so it got stupid hot. They moved it back on the '22 models. On these later models, the pipes obviously get hot, but on a 70 degree day IN SHORTS, it was kind of painful, but won't really burn a naked leg unless you hold it there for a few minutes.
Really, it's not an issue.
This bike is bettered in a wide source of ways compared to the XC predecessor model in terms of road use faculties.
But it still has no cruise control…
I have the XC and it is very off-road capable of you aren't some kind of crazy dirt bike person. The X is really just a street bike, a large version of the scrambler 900.
I feel the same... Cutting down the suspension travel and seat height should not have been done.
Moving from brembo m50 to nissin ..hmm I think that's fine.
Using a different company's suspension is fine or using a different instrument cluster that is fine too, to cut cost.
But they should have retained the XC specs on suspension and seat height at least.
The 1200 x has 3 more inches of travel in front and rear shocks. I have the 900 and it has no more capabilities for the dirt than a Road Glide. The 1200 x is good to go, for off road. I just wouldn't do it fast.@@aditya.ishan27
Being a large version of the street scrambler, is somewhat the whole point of the bike
Triumph should have binned the XE and put its dash and brakes on this, as well as adjustable, just not as high , suspension. I wouldn't have minded paying more cash for that. As is, I think they have downgraded the X model too much.
I just find that exhaust way too ugly
If its a "Scrambler" then why just the road trip? and why all the talk about suspension when it will seldom be used to the full, nice look but too many cc's and too heavy for purpose.
Shame about the display and suspension.
Nothing wrong with Marzzochi suspension IMO although I accept it probably won't please the sticker monkeys. Being of the analogue generation I'm not a fan of TFT/LCD clocks in any form TBH and would prefer the swinging needles of one or two "old fashioned" dials.
@@phils2180 I agree about having 2 retro clocks that would make the bike look more retro.
I like the display on my XC and I like the ability to adjust the suspension. Being 215#, I had to add heavy weight springs, but it still has a lot of variation for rider comfort.
No Mudguards.
Cheap decals on tank.
Silly exchaust cover.
Great motor, very poorly designed.
Triumph bonneville 1200 is a beautiful bike.
Have Triumph got a finger in too many pies 🥧 l think so.
Each to theirs and all that … but maybe I need to try the big Bonneville and report back!
Depends what pie you like, Scrambler, T120, Bobber, Speed Twin, Thruxton. Choose your pie and dip your finger!😂