CROSS-COUNTRY AND WOODS WEAPON
Triumph’ s TF250C is the latest from the British brand. An XC-specific machine with all the top drawer fruit you’ d want to see. Brendan Abel reports from his bush hideaway.
Throughout the grind of daily life, you, on occasion, sometimes get thrown a bone. A big, fat juicy bone. In this particular instance the bone I was thrown was in the form of Triumph’ s 2026 TF250C. Now, I’ ve been in the very fortunate position of having already ridden the rest of the Triumph off-road range, which gives me a good grounding on the dirt bike offerings from the British brand, including what works … and what doesn’ t. And, for sure, I was really looking forward to trying the all-new XC machine.
BITS FOR THE BUSH I had one of the first TF250X motocross bikes that landed in the country, and I loved it … mostly. I say‘ mostly’, because for the kind of bush riding I like to do, it was missing a few things. And that’ s why I was stoked to hear Triumph was making an XC-specific bike, and even more excited to swing a leg over the
TF250C. Just looking through the promotional material, Triumph’ s XC machine promised to be a punchy wee number, with all of the crosscountry / enduro stuff which many of us are fans of. The new TF250C turned up at my place with almost zero hours on the meter. So, I spent some time running in the XC machine before I took it out for a proper ride. Taking a good look around the bike, it has all the things I thought were missing for bush riding on my MX-specific TF250X; there’ s the side-stand, 18-inch rear wheel and a slick, ribbed gripper seat( slick as in looks cool, in fact it’ s very anti slick), hand guards, radiator fan, a skid plate with a linkage guard and mapping to suit a more enduro / bush kinda rider.
TOP DRAWER COMPONENTS The Triumph off-road range comes with
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