pics in the gallery

[rybes]

i was just lookin at the pics of steamers in the gallery and found this one.

http://tigertriple.com/forum/album_pic.php?pic_id=33

what a monster, who can enlighten me as to what it was modded for and how it was modded.
cheers :D

[Nick Calne]

I love that one too. Would love to know more...

[aeronca]

the guy who ran that bike in the dakar is Ivo Kastan. interesting guy - he runs the dakar every year on something different. 2 years ago he did it on a 110cc pit bike. this year he's going for a land speed record on a monkey bike. 8) http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www. ... 3pjp0fSmVw
check out his web page.

[Nick Calne]

What a loony.

I don't know whats more mental, doing the dakar on a tiger or 100mph across Bonneville on a monkey bike :shock:

[CoolHandLuke]

Thanks aeronca.  A quick google turned up this page with more photos:

http://www.ivokastan.cz/?pg=fotogalerie&galerie=3

[rybes]

he looks a proper nutcase. give that man a medal. cheers for the info on that tiger too. i did wonder if thats what it was for. i remember the dealer tellin me that they did the paris dakar on a tiger. wonder if he ment that one. oh, thats not the reason i bought it tho. altho there is another story about that :lol:  :roll:

[CoolHandLuke]

he looks a proper nutcase. give that man a medal. cheers for the info on that tiger too. i did wonder if thats what it was for. i remember the dealer tellin me that they did the paris dakar on a tiger. wonder if he ment that one. oh, thats not the reason i bought it tho. altho there is another story about that :lol:  :roll:

Do tell :)

[aeronca]

[rybes]

:lol: ok

well, i went out to go buy meself a honda VTR. always fancied a twin so decided on one of those as an sp1 was to much to insure.
 went down to the local honda dealers to see what was about before i went and bought one and saw the tiger WTF is that ugly thing ? i thought and walked right past it mutterin things bout, whyd anyone want such an ugly lookin bike :lol: anyway, walked round for a bit till the person i was with said go try the tiger ( cos they wanted to be pillion on that, not a VTR) so i reluctantly tried it, sat on it and said yeah its comfy. but it looks like poo so i dont want it, im off to look at that VTR. while lookin at the VTR one of the salesmen come over and was talkin to me about vtrs n told me the one i was lookin at had been sold, but if id like to go with him to his PC hed have a look if any of the other branches had one. so off i went. sat down with him and he was lookin throo his PC tellin me all about these bikes he can get for me to buy. how happy was i ? id finally own a vtr, it was at this point i turned my head to look at the vtr i couldnt have when i saw 2 blokes lookin at the tiger. one of em was sat on it and turned to his mate with a very happy look on his face and nodded. it was at that very moment i turned back to the salesman and said. im buyin that tiger. for some reason i didnt like to see someone else sat on MY bike. 5 mins later paper work was filled in and signed and the tiger was mine. can i say at this point that it was probably the best move i ever made regardin any kind of transport ive owned. sell my tiger ? id rather be f*cked with a barbed wire dildo by someone who used to be called derek but now hes called candy :lol:

[Mustang]

id rather be f*cked with a barbed wire dildo by someone who used to be called derek but now hes called candy :lol:

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[Nick Calne]

Jeez Rybes that a truly terrifying thought.  :shock:  

Wonder what happened to that dakar'ed tiger?  Be interesting to know.  Maybe it's sat in the back of someone's garage, still caked in desert sand but gathering dust.....


EDIT - been googling some more and found some info on ADV in the triumph tiger picture thread..  It raced in the 98 Dakar and got as far as round 7.  It cost $45000 to put together!.

[aeronca]

     right on.

[aeronca]

here's a little info on ivo and the rally - AND some info on a cool guy named Dieter Löding  and his tiger, which has been in photo's on this site. i think patric knows him http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www. ... I8jjlb33bw   the only bummer is it's in german.

[aeronca]

here's another link to some pic's of the dakar bike http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www. ... d7Uyu-kuDg    looks like it has a plate and a tail light.

[Nick Calne]

Did you see this mod on the green bike....



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