Triumph Tiger Sport 800 (2025) – Technical Review

You might be forgiven for thinking you’re looking at Triumph’s A2-friendly Tiger Sport 660 here but appearances can be deceiving as this is actually a substantially new midrange bike – the Tiger Sport 800.

Slotting into Triumph’s 2025 range as a replacement for the Tiger 850 Sport, the Tiger Sport 800 significantly outperforms both the machine it’s replacing and the smaller Tiger Sport 660 thanks to a 798cc triple that Triumph describes as ‘all-new.’

Pros & Cons

2025 Triumph Tiger Sport 800 - Price

Coming in at £10,995 the Tiger Sport 800 is well clear of the £8,945 Tiger Sport 660 and a bit pricier than the £10,095 Tiger 850 Sport that it supersedes in the lineup – but you’re getting a lot more performance for your money thanks to that 113hp engine that’s around 30hp clear of either the 660 or the old 850 model. You’ll also benefit from what Triumph claims are the lowest service workshop times in its class, with 10,000-mile intervals between dealer visits, and some impressive levels of technology.

The model isn’t expected to reach dealers until March 2025, so there’s still a bit of a wait before you can get your hands on one, but that means there’s more time to ponder the choice between the three available colour options – Graphite, Cosmic Yellow, or Caspian Blue.

2025 Triumph Tiger Sport 800- Engine & Performance

With myriad triples in its lineup already you’d be forgiven for thinking that the Tiger Sport 800’s engine is a simple mix-and-match creation from the existing parts catalogue but a deeper look reveals that it largely lives up to Triumph’s ‘all new’ claim.

It’s not simply a big-bore version of the 660cc triple used in the visually-similar Tiger Sport 660. The engine covers make it look more like the 765cc engine from the Street Triple, which also shares the same 78mm bore as the new motor, but the Tiger Sport’s 55.7mm stroke and resulting 798cc capacity aren’t shared – yet – by anything else in the range.

Unlike the ‘T-Plane’ triples used in bigger Tiger models, with their offbeat firing intervals, the new motor uses a conventional 120-degree crankshaft. It also departs from the smaller 660 triples by using three individual throttle bodies instead of a single one on an intake manifold. At the other end the motor exhales through a new exhaust including a side-mounted end can instead of the Tiger Sport 660’s under-belly design – one of the big visual cues that you’re looking at the 800 and not the 660.

The result is an output of 113hp, which is 33hp more than the Tiger Sport 660 and 29hp more than the old Tiger 850 Sport. In fact, it even out-punches the bigger Tiger 900’s 106.5hp, and it’s not that far behind the 118.4hp that the sportier Street Triple 765 can muster.

That power peak arrives at 10,750rpm, but Triumph says the real focus has been on torque, and as a result the Tiger Sport 800 pumps out 84Nm (62lb-ft) at 8500rpm. That’s more peak torque than even the larger, 888cc Tiger 850 Sport could manage – it maxes out at 82Nm (60.5lb-ft) – and beats the Street Triple’s 80Nm (59lb-ft), while also peaking lower in the rev range. The Tiger Sport 660, meanwhile, is far behind on 64Nm (47.2lb-ft).

The motor drives through the usual six-speed transmission, but there’s Triumph’s Shift Assist quickshifter fitted as standard as well as a slip/assist clutch to reduce fatigue and rear-wheel lockup on downshifts.

In line with modern expectations there’s a trio of rider modes – Sport, Road and Rain – each tweaking throttle response and the intervention level of the ABS and the new lean-sensitive traction control system.

2025 Triumph Tiger Sport 800 - Handling & Suspension (inc. Weight)

The Tiger Sport 800’s tubular steel perimeter frame is, pretty clearly, based on the design from the Tiger Sport 660 – but even here it hasn’t gone without modifications. The triple ride-by-wire throttle bodies of the new engine are wider than the single throttle of the Tiger Sport 660, requiring that section of the frame to be reshaped to fit.

However, the more substantial alterations come in the form of higher-spec suspension for the Tiger Sport 800. The forks are still Showa 41mm separate-function units, as on the 660, but they gain adjustable compression and rebound damping. It’s a similar story at the rear, where the Showa monoshock is given adjustable rebound damping alongside the existing remote hydraulic preload control.

The brakes are another visual clue to the new bike, with a pair of Triumph-branded four-pot radial calipers at the front where the 660 has axial-mount two-piston Nissins. Cornering ABS, via a six-axis IMU, is standard.

At 214kg wet, the Tiger Sport 800 is only 8kg heavier than the 2024-spec Tiger Sport 660.

2025 Triumph Tiger Sport 800 - Comfort & Economy

As well as the better comfort promised by the Tiger Sport 800’s improved suspension, the bike features an 835mm seat height that matches the smaller-capacity Tiger Sport 660 and pairs it to a revised fairing with better wind protection.

Small, side-mounted wind deflectors are fitted as standard, and the screen is adjustable via a single-handed mechanism. A closer look also reveals new bodywork side panels and a small belly pan, further distinguishing the bike from the existing Tiger Sport 660.

An 18.6-litre fuel tank is larger than you might expect to find, and surprisingly also measures in at more than the 17.2 litres of the Tiger Sport 660. That should more than offset any loss of range through the larger engine’s fuel consumption, which comes in at 60.1mpg (compared to 62.8mpg for the Tiger Sport 660). In theory, that should give a maximum range of 246 miles.

2025 Triumph Tiger Sport 800 - Equipment

New daytime running lights on the Tiger Sport 800’s nose provides another visual market that distinguishes the new model from the 660cc version, and like the rest of the bike’s lighting they’re LEDs.

As well as the new cornering rider assist systems and the standard-fit quickshifter, the Tiger Sport 800’s equipment includes a combined LCD and TFT screen, similar to the Tiger Sport 660s, which gets the ‘My Triumph Connectivity System’ fitted as standard to allow Bluetooth connection to your phone for music, calls and on-screen, turn-by-turn navigation.

Cruise control is another piece of standard kit, and of course there’s an extensive list of add-on options including heated grips, an Akrapovič slip-on silencer, and various luggage options including panniers and a twin-helmet top box.

2025 Triumph Tiger Sport 800- Rivals

At its £11k price the Tiger Sport 800 slots into a busy segment of the market filled with a broad variety of adventure bikes with a wide range of performance levels. It sits between the £10k, road-biased BMW F800GS and the £12k, off-road-oriented F900GS but beats both in terms of power. But then again, the new Kawasaki Versys 1100, at £11,899, is less than a grand more expensive and is a substantially larger, more powerful machine. Ducati’s Multistrada V2 looks like a rival on paper, with an identical 113hp as the Tiger Sport 800 and a very similar stance and weight, but it’s much more expensive.

BMW F900GS (2024) | Price: £11,995

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Power/Torque

105bhp / 68.6lb-ft

Weight

219kg

Kawasaki Versys 1100 (2025) | Price: £11,899

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Power/Torque

132.7bhp / 82.6lb-ft

Weight

255kg

Ducati Multistrada V2 (2024) | Price: £13,295

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Power/Torque

113bhp / 70.8lb-ft

Weight

217kg

2025 Triumph Tiger Sport 800 - Verdict

We’ll give a verdict once we’ve ridden the bike

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2025 Triumph Tiger Sport 800 - Technical Specification

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