2019 Triumph Scrambler 1200 XE | First Ride Review
The 2019 Triumph Scrambler 1200 XE is a fully off-road-capable motorcycle with classic retro styling. (Photos by Kingdom Creative)
Scramblers are hot right now, with well over a dozen models available from five different manufacturers. With rough-and-ready retro styling, the appeal of scramblers–that freewheeling, desert-racing spirit of the ?60s, embodied by the King of Cool himself, Steve McQueen–is hard to deny. Most modern scramblers, however, are street-oriented models that talk the talk more than they walk the walk of off-road capability.
Triumph?s Hinckley-era, Bonneville-based scramblers, starting with the air-cooled, 865cc Scrambler produced from 2006-2016 and continuing with the liquid-cooled, 900cc Street Scrambler, are more suited to pavement than dirt. But that changes with the introduction of the Scrambler 1200. Rather than just a styling exercise built around the larger 1,200cc parallel twin, Triumph created a full-on adventure bike with classic minimalist styling. No windscreen, no bodywork, just a steel tank, a wide handlebar and a round headlight. Read our 2019 Triumph Street Scrambler first ride review
The 2019 Triumph Scrambler 1200 XE has the classic scrambler look, with swept-back high pipes, a skid plate, spoked wheels and a round headlight.
I?ll admit, when it was announced last October, I was skeptical that the Scrambler 1200 would be truly capable off-road. Sure, it has some impressive specs–tubeless spoked wheels with a 21-inch f...
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