TRIUMPH SCRAMBLER 1200 XC
I MAY BE OLDER, BUT I’M CERTAINLY NOT wiser. Luckily-enough to go on the International launch of the Triumph Scrambler 1200 in Portugal, I fell for it hook, line and sinker – something a journo should never be doing. But the looks, the power and the feel of this naked adventure bike had me under its spell, especially after a day riding on road and a whole day riding off-road, with proper off-road tyres. I could imagine one sitting at home; a big statement for someone whose job it has been to test most new bikes from the last decade.
And so it came that I was custodian of one from April through to this January. When I first saw it I was still taken by it and together we have covered more than 8000 miles. From rural Norfolk to meetings in the middle of
