The Triumph Tiger Trail was a motorcycle model manufactured by Triumph Motorcycles at the Meriden factory. The Tiger Trail was made from 1981 to 1982 in both 750 cc (TR7T) and 650 cc (TR65T) capacities, and under 180 examples were built. Emission regulations precluded export to the USA but otherwise the model was available to all Triumph's other markets particularly in many British Commonwealth nations and western Europe.
Triumph manufactured the Tiger Trail in response to their French importers', C.G.C.I.M, request for a large capacity dual purpose machine to compete with the BMW R80G/S model. The importers had visited Meriden with a prototype based around the Triumph Bonneville T140 which the factory judged too powerful. Instead, Meriden's director of engineering Brian Jones based the proposed model around the 750 cc TR7V Triumph Tiger with its single 30 mm Amal carburettor and electronic ignition by Lucas.
Georges Monneret, on the right in the photo, one of the leaders in front of the entrance of the CGCIM in 1970. A Triumph 500 SpeedTwin specially equipped for the Police presented in front of the entrance to the CGCIM rue du Débarcadère in 1959.
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