Every year, my dad and I try to get out for a motorcycle trip together. Short or long, warm or cold; it doesn’t matter. It just so happens that he’s my favourite person to ride with and, although we live 4,000 km away from each other, we always find a way to make it work. As fate would have it, we found our-selves together through autumn in Ontario with two new Triumph Tigers to try out.
The Tiger 1200 Rally Pro and the Tiger 660 Sport — or the big tiger and little tiger — allow us to experience opposite ends of the tiger spectrum. I had ridden the 1200 before, but never the 660. The anticipation to ride the 660 was high: Since its release, I was excited to see how the little Tiger would handle. My only gripe was the name. I had a hard time calling it a Tiger based on Triumph’s recent re-establishment of the model as an all-adventure lineup. But I could easily be persuaded otherwise.
FALL COLOURS
As a child, autumn was my favourite season: the crisp air and endless colours sparked inspiration for me. It only seemed fitting that, for this trip, we would ride through thousands of acres of autumn’s most colourful palette, which also contains some of the best riding areas Ontario has to offer: the eastern part of the Haliburton Highlands and into the Ottawa Valley. We headed out for three days to experience the joy of childhood again.
In British Columbia, we have very little colour change, and although
