£8995
80bhp @ 10,250rpm
207kg
4/5
It may be a middleweight when it comes to capacity, affordability and agility, but Triumph’s Tiger Sport 660 has always had heavyweight ambition as an authentic all-rounder. Launched in 2022, Triumph took their hugely popular Trident 660 roadster platform and mutated it into a multi-skilled masterpiece, courtesy of a higher riding position, longer suspension, a protective half-fairing and a larger fuel tank.
Three years later the Tiger Sport 660 gets its first update. The overall recipe is largely unchanged – same engine, same chassis, same styling – but for 2025 the standard tech spec is significantly higher. Cruise control, a two-way quickshifter, cornering-optimised rider aids and Bluetooth connectivity now all come as standard, all of which promise to expand the Tiger Sport’s dynamic and practical potential. But is that the reality, and is the latest model worth the price increase over last year’s bike?
Pros & Cons
Only £50 more than last year’s bike
Cruise control a hugely welcome addition
Enormously versatile for a middleweight
Still no centre-stand option
Dash could look more modern
Rivals offer a longer warranty
2025 Triumph Tiger Sport 660 colour options
2025 Triumph Tiger Sport 660 - Price & PCP Deals
The 2025 Triumph Tiger Sport 660 starts at £8995, or just £50 more than the 2024 version. Or, at least, that’s the starting price for one of the Tiger’s four colourschemes – the hugely understated Sapphire Black option on our test bike. If, on the other hand, you fancy one your Tiger in any of the three versions that don’t blend so readily into the background (Roulette Green, Crystal White or Carnival Red) then you’ll need to add another £100, lifting the price to £9095 on the road.
If you’re thinking about buying a Tiger Sport 660 on a PCP finance deal, then a typical plan would look a bit like this: Putting down a £1799 deposit leaves 36 monthly payments of £90.10, followed by a final optional payment of £4845 to own the bike. That’s based on riding 4000 miles per year, with the APR working out at 4.9%. Plonk for one of the three jazzier colours and the monthly payments rise a smidge to £91.86, while the final payment climbs to £4892.50. Both example quotes are correct as of mid-April 2025.
2025 Triumph Tiger Sport 660 - Engine & Performance
The Tiger Sport’s 660cc triple boasts a direct lineage to the iconic 2006 Daytona 675. Triumph later created a short-stroke version of the engine to power a Street Triple 660, built for the LAMS (Learner Approved Motorcycle Scheme) market in Australia and New Zealand. Come 2021, this motor was dusted off and repurposed for the Trident, now retuned for a safe, reliable and still-spritely 80bhp.
A year later it found its way into the Tiger Sport, with an identical state of tune. And now for 2025, despite having been cleaned up to meet the latest Euro5+ emissions standard, performance hasn’t been compromised at all. Power remains 80bhp at 10,250rpm, with 47lb·ft of torque at a fairly modest 6250rpm. But those headline numbers don’t tell the full story, of a torque curve so ironing-board flat that Triumph reckon 90% of the peak is available throughout the motor’s entire rev range.
The delivery is as linear and as predictable as it’s possible to get, devoid of any peaks or troughs in the power curves. Lug along lazily or scream it to the redline – the motor’s happy doing both. An impeccable throttle response in all three riding modes (relaxed Rain, regular Road or spirited Sport) underlines one of the most willing, well-mannered middleweight engines in modern motorcycling. It’s smooth, has a pleasing growl to the exhaust note, and offers a welcome alternative to the swarm of parallel twins otherwise occupying this segment and price point.
The Tiger Sport’s powertrain is enhanced for 2025 with Triumph Shift Assist – or, in plain English, a two-way quickshifter. It now comes fitted as standard, but previously was an optional extra costing a whopping £335. It’s a fabulously refined, effective and well-integrated setup, allowing for near-instant clutchless shifts both up and down the gearbox. It’s equally effective whether you’re riding aggressively, or simply want to kick it quickly through to top gear for a motorway cruise – a welcome enhancement to both sides of the Tiger Sport’s remit.
2025 Triumph Tiger Sport 660 - Handling & Suspension (inc. Weight)
As with the engine, you won’t find any big changes when it comes to the Tiger Sport’s chassis components. The main frame is the same tubular steel perimeter design from the previous bike, with the same fabricated swingarm, and the sharp steering geometry is untouched too. Suspension is still Showa at both ends, and the only adjustment continues to be rear preload via a remote hydraulic handwheel. Even the tyres are carried over, Triumph sticking with Michelin’s excellent Road 5 – some of the best stock tyres you’ll find on any road bike, and preferable to the OE rubber fitted to countless bikes with far fatter price tags.
With all that in mind, it'll come as no surprise to learn that the Tiger Sport 660 handles and steers exactly as it did before. Slim, light and agile, it tips eagerly into tight turns without needing to put much might through the wide handlebars. There’s plenty of feel and feedback from both ends of the bike, despite a fairly leggy 150mm of wheel travel, meaning you soon build a confident rapport with the handling. From fast A-roads to busy B-roads to congested city centres, the Tiger’s always a delight to throw around.
Not that there’s an excess of it to throw. Kerb weight is a claimed 207kg – more substantial than a Yamaha Tracer 7, but a good chunk lighter than Kawasaki’s Versys 650.
Brakes remain two-piston Nissins biting the same 310mm discs. No, they haven’t been replaced by more fashionable radial-mounted items yet, but in use they prove far more effective than their seemingly simple spec promises. The only tweak for 2025 is that the ABS system has now been smartened up to a lean-sensitive setup, thanks to the addition of a new six-axis IMU.
2025 Triumph Tiger Sport 660 - Comfort & Economy
The Tiger Sport may use a mid-capacity engine, and it may feel slim and trim to hustle through corners – but don’t assume this means it’s a physically small bike, or that you’ll feel cramped from onboard. The ergonomics are deceptively generous, with wide bars, a tall seat and loads of legroom down to spaciously-set footpegs.
Wind protection is good too, in part thanks to a well-sized screen whose height can be adjusted with one hand. The Tiger is a fantastically effective mile-muncher, with practically no vibration at motorway speeds, no buffeting and a comfy saddle. The addition of a new one-button cruise control system (which many asked for when the Tiger Sport was announced back in 2022) only improves its ability to cover distance with ease. Cruise works from second gear upwards and can be set between 19 and 100mph – just press the button on the left bar and it’ll maintain your current speed. The trade-off of having such a simple, intuitive system is that you can’t adjust the speed once cruise is active, and there’s no ‘Resume’ function to quickly return to your previous setting either.
Triumph claim fuel economy of 60.1mpg, while Tiger Sport 660 owners on Fuelly.com report anywhere between 50-ish and nearly 70mpg – suggesting Triumph’s claim isn’t too far out, on average. The fuel tank capacity is claimed to be 17.2 litres, giving a theoretical maximum range of well over 200 miles. Even without dipping into the final 3.1-litre reserve, a rider should still be able to get around 180 miles before needing to refuel.
2025 Triumph Tiger Sport 660 - Equipment
The main area of improvement for the 2025 Tiger Sport 660 – arguably the only real area of improvement over the existing bike, actually – is its significantly higher level of electronic equipment. As mentioned earlier, the new bike comes with a two-way quickshifter (previously a £335 option), as well as a Bluetooth connectivity module (previously £250 extra). On top of those the Tiger also has a new one-button cruise control, plus a six-axis IMU for lean-sensitive rider aids (neither of which were available even as accessories previously).
Elsewhere, the rest of the Tiger Sport 660’s equipment level is pretty much as-was. The clock unit is unchanged, split between a monochrome LCD top half (speedo, revs, fuel gauge) and a compact colour TFT panel (trip info, menus, connectivity) below. The sole visual difference is a new ambient air temperature gauge. It’s generally pretty clear and easy to read, if occasionally a bit fiddly to navigate, but in a world where most rivals have already gone to large, full-colour TFT units, it’s one component that does look a bit on the budget side.
The Tiger Sport still comes with a simple height-adjustable screen, a remote rear preload adjuster, and at the back of the bike there are a pair of chunky pillion handles. The tail also incorporates slots ready to take Triumph’s official integrated panniers (£595, plus a further £129 if you want them to have colour-matched infill panels). If their combined 57 litres of storage isn’t enough, a huge 49-litre top box can also be fitted (£300 for the box; £69 for the mounting plate; £145 for the required rack).
Heated grips remain an option, costing £245, while handguards are £88. LED fog lamps add £300. If you want to power your personal devices, a 12-volt DIN socket adds £35 while an underseat USB charger (odd place to put it) is £27. A centre-stand still isn’t available as an option (though it is on the Tiger Sport 800, thanks to its redesigned exhaust) – though, in fairness, that only leaves it in the same boat as Kawasaki’s Versys 650 and Yamaha’s Tracer 7.
Finally, the Tiger Sport 660 can also be made suitable for younger riders with an A2 licence. The official restrictor kit, which has to be fitted by a Triumph dealer, costs £157 and drops peak power to 47bhp / 35kW. Best of all, it can easily be reversed when the owner has passed their full unrestricted, putting the Tiger back to its original 80bhp spec.
2025 Triumph Tiger Sport 660 - Rivals
When the Tiger Sport 660 was launched back in 2022, its key rivals would have been Kawasaki’s Versys 650 and Yamaha’s Tracer 7. Three years later and little’s changed. The Kawasaki’s received only modest updates since then, while the Yamaha is now being sold under derogation until its Euro5+ replacement is announced. You could perhaps see Honda’s popular NC750X as a competitor too, though it’s substantially down on the Tiger’s performance and excitement.
Adventure bikes with legit off-road ambition, such as Honda’s Transalp, Aprilia’s Tuareg and Yamaha’s Ténéré aren’t in the Tiger Sport’s sights at all. But we can make an exception for Suzuki’s bargain-tastic V-Strom 800RE, which offers a similar peak power output to the Triumph, and also comes with a two-way quickshifter fitted as standard.
Kawasaki Versys 650 | Price: £8075
66bhp / 45 lb-ft
219kg
Yamaha Tracer 7 | Price: £8820
72bhp / 49 lb-ft
197kg
Suzuki V-Strom 800RE | Price: £9699
83bhp / 58 lb-ft
223kg
2025 Triumph Tiger Sport 660 - Verdict
Call it an all-rounder, a tall-rounder, an adventure-tourer, a sports-tourer, an adventure-sports-tourer… however you like to pigeon-hole it, Triumph’s Tiger Sport 660 is an undeniably talented machine. It’s comfortable, capable and comprehensive, equally accomplished on the daily commute, the weekend spirited scratch, or the annual long-haul tour. It’s welcoming and approachable enough that it won’t intimidate the inexperienced, but also well-built, credible and grown-up enough that seasoned riders won’t feel out of place. For any bike to manage all of that is impressive enough – but to do it for less than £9000, with a standard spec list this high, is truly remarkable.
Downsides? A slightly dated-looking dash and the absence of a centrestand are all that spring to mind. Perhaps Triumph’s two-year warranty is starting to look a bit skimpy too, especially when Honda and Suzuki are offering service-activated options that can extend their warranty out to six or seven years. The only other thing that might stand in the way of someone buying a Tiger Sport 660 is the recent arrival of the Tiger Sport 800, which is pretty much the same bike but with 40% more power, adjustable suspension and the ability to fit a centrestand – and all for just £2000 more.
But while the new 800 busily earns rave five-star reviews for its incredible versatility, engaging ride and eye-catching value, it’s worth bearing in mind that a huge slice of that bike’s success is down to how good the 660 version was already. The 2025 Tiger Sport 660 takes that already brilliant base and sprinkles on some genuinely useful technology, expanding its capabilities in all directions and delivering even more for your money.
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2025 Triumph Tiger Sport 660 - Technical Specification
| New price | From £8995 |
| Capacity | 660cc |
| Bore x Stroke | 74.0 x 51.1mm |
| Engine layout | Inline triple |
| Engine details | Liquid cooled, 4v per cyl, DOHC |
| Power | 80bhp @ 10,250rpm |
| Torque | 47lb·ft @ 6250rpm |
| Transmission | Six-speed, chain, two-way quickshifter |
| Average fuel consumption | 60.1mpg (claimed) |
| Tank size | 17.2 litres |
| Max range to empty | 227 miles (estimated) |
| Rider aids | Cornering ABS and traction control, two-way quickshifter, cruise control, three riding modes |
| Frame | Tubular steel perimeter |
| Front suspension | Showa 41mm upside down separate function cartridge forks, 150mm wheel travel |
| Front suspension adjustment | None |
| Rear suspension | Showa monoshock, 150mm wheel travel |
| Rear suspension adjustment | Preload, via remote hydraulic adjuster |
| Front brake | Twin 310mm discs, Nissin two-piston calipers |
| Rear brake | Single 255mm disc, Nissin single-piston caliper |
| Front wheel / tyre | 120/70 ZR17, Michelin Road 5 |
| Rear wheel / tyre | 180/55 ZR17, Michelin Road 5 |
| Dimensions (LxWxH) | 2071mm x 834mm x 1398mm |
| Wheelbase | 1418mm |
| Seat height | 835mm |
| Weight | 207kg (wet) |
| Warranty | 2 years, unlimited mileage |
| Servicing | 10,000 miles |
| MCIA Secured Rating | 3/5 |
| Website | triumphmotorcycles.co.uk |
What is MCIA Secured?
MCIA Secured gives bike buyers the chance to see just how much work a manufacturer has put into making their new investment as resistant to theft as possible.
As we all know, the more security you use, the less chance there is of your bike being stolen. In fact, based on research by Bennetts, using a disc lock makes your machine three times less likely to be stolen, while heavy duty kit can make it less likely to be stolen than a car. For reviews of the best security products, click here.
MCIA Secured gives motorcycles a rating out of five stars (three stars for bikes of 125cc or less), based on the following being fitted to a new bike as standard:
A steering lock that meets the UNECE 62 standard
An ignition immobiliser system
A vehicle marking system
An alarm system
A vehicle tracking system with subscription
The higher the star rating, the better the security, so always ask your dealer what rating your bike has and compare it to other machines on your shortlist.
