2024 Triumph TF250-X TESTED 

Been into triumphs since I was introduced to the street bikes in the mid 80s, to see this bike come to their line up is like a dream come true…

Hopefully they get into the enduro and two stroke market 🔥

well done for a first year bike.......very well done might start to see this more often in next 10 years, although it takes a ton of money to start up a program, the Ducati looks sick as well

I'll take 3 of them if I can look that fast. Holy Cow...NICE!

Looks like a great bike. Triumph motorcycle fit and finish have been quite good over the years, and they were smart to outfit with great components like KYB and Brembo. I think they will do well with this model, biggest struggle I think will be the niche motorcycle dealers that sell the brand. Hopefully they look to expand the franchise network with this expansion into offroad.

I’ve been interested and I believe once one of the bikes is in a dealer by me I’m picking one up. I used to race hard but now I’m older I just want to hit jumps and throw whips.

Beautiful bike especially for a first gen, looks extremely well built. Being a mechanic the only thing I dislike is all the torx screws

It almost feels like Triumph took a KTM, and changed all the things that people who don't like KTM's complain about. Big brain.

PlEASE ride this at a National! Dying to see what you folks think during that experience!🏁

Looks like a badass little bike. The whole deal with torx bits…..BRO…they don’t strip out, EVER. Everything should be torx IMO

We want to see it winning races!

Race that bad boy see what you can do!

would be sick to see it at a national 💯

Would kinda be sweet to see triumph compete with the KTM group in the two stroke market👌

Awesome job both of you. Say hello to Dennis for me. RACE FACTOR Lives:-)

Josh..race the triumph.

Buy them while you can boys. They ain’t gonna be around long. Should be worth a lot of money in the future. I doubt their dirtbike business will last three years.

Think I might buy one

Hey Josh, great intro music, Oralee! 🗣

🔥🔥

where was that gopro mounted ?

Oh lord those torx are gonna be strip central, gonna replace those as soon as i touch one.

Can MXA please employee RC as a test rider!

latinos love english bike triumph wow hot nice

JOSH !!!! You have got to race the bike at a national this year !!! That would be EPIC !!!!!

I'd rather see you put 100hrs on one and document the issues than see it raced in a national.

You guys knock these videos out of the park each and every time. As a German car tech I can appreciate the torx, I personally love to see them

Bike looks great, but what really tripped me out was finding out that little Dennis is 43. I’m friends with his dad, and the first time I met little Dennis was at Hangtown. Big Dennis was pushing him around in a baby stroller. Man do I feel old.

Mxa has the reputation of being brutally honest when they test a bike, id say not a bad review

Sick bike I’m excited to ride one. If they are smart they will produce a 350 to tap into that market KTM has capitalized on

Triumph street bikes are beautifully built and styled. Nice to see that carry over to the dirt too!

That would be awesome to see Josh race the Triumph this summer!!!

Man I could sell my soul for a chance to practice with RC 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻, this bike is well done project and I can’t wait to see the 450. 🤘🏻🤘🏻

Hell yes Josh .. you were ripping on it … bike looks great too … well done triumph 👏👏👏👍

Great to finally hear some news about this bike from objective people. In the past weeks it has all been speculation by all kinds of people with all kinds of claims. In my opinion it seems like a well build bike, and as expected they didn't invent the wheel themselves, would have been impossible to build a great bike if you really start from the ground up. I think it's a plus for Triumph, means they've been smart and focussed on what they could improve instead of starting from zero. Thanks for all insights !

At 6:10 you say AOS are not speed sensitive. Pretty sure this is not correct. All forks have speed sensitive damping. I was under the impression that "SSS" is just Yamaha's own marketing name for their KYB AOS fork (Air Oil Separate (closed cartridge)).

If I was in the market for a new 250 that little beast would certainly top the list. It sounds great. It looks better than anything else out there and watching. It seems like it is very balanced and fast.

I vote yes for you to race a national on it

When will you do a comparison of the Triumph vs. the other brands... or at least tell what how you feel it stacks up against the other brands, from memory, when you test it at Glenn Hellen. Thanks.

Great Video guys! Josh is a great speaker too, honestly never watched one of these before, Impressed.

A complete and perfect review. Y'all nailed it again. Great production and value added for time watched. Cheers from Tampa Bay 🌴🤙🏼🏍🛵

I have brought this bike to Glen Helen and it feels so good, the bike holds it lines and build speed super fast, nothing better than a good suspension not losing the front of the bike a single time, the frame absorbs everything and gives you 100% of control of the bike, the bike is loud and it is so good.

I've been riding Triumph sportbikes for 20 years now, the last few I've had have been dead nuts reliable and amazing performers. This is going to be a winner.

I cannot believe Triumph is the only company to sample their competitors offerings while developing their own product. pretty sure they all do it. I know Stark did

Looks like a great bike! Love a lot of the ingredients they've put into this thing. Personally don't love the plastics and especially the graphics/colour scheme but thats easy to change.

That mention of the 450 has got me excited. I can see Triumph as a potential manufacturer to release a 350 model in the future also. 👍

I have a Thruxton, which only sees track days now. I would love to see Josh on the Triumph this summer!

Stoked for this bike, I’m glad to see a Gucci 250f.

Wow... Just another generic bland 250... absolutely no innovation to separate it from the herd.. but it gets worse ....what's the average age of a Triumph buyer?... Mid 50s...and remind me why I should switch brands ?

The attention to detail is amazing on this bike. All of the castings look great and the cast logos on everything is very cool. Not in love with the black, but the bike looks stellar. Hope they make a 350 and allow after market to make plastic. I'd definitely buy one.

When is the shootout between the 2024 250 shootout winner and this bike?

the feedback was so positive that i want to buy one

I knew it was going to be good, if not the best 250, just by looking at the frame, the way the double cradle splits higher up on the down tube. KYB suspension and Brembo brakes . Simple , clean and light bike. 😊

Go triumph I may have to get back to racing mx and get rid of the road bike🤪

Yes please race the triumph at a national. I hope you get to rece a few nationals with different bikes. MXA's content is more interesting when you race nationals, no othe media organisation does that...race more nationals!

Such an awesome video!! Thanks guys for the info, excited to see more content come out on this bike.

very good review > good job guys < 👌

FOR SURE try to race at a national this summer!!! I'd like to see ya at Washougal...

Love that blatant disregard for the track markers 😂

AOS = SSS

Torx is definitely the best bit anyways!

You guys really used a Cumbia song for the intro hahahahaha Love it!

Run the Triumph in the 250 class (Fox raceway) and Beta in the 450 class (hangtown) for outdoors this year. You'll be able to ride 2 brand new bikes and get a solid perspective of how deep both classes are this year.

I’d just like to point out that even as an English man, I still find the Torx only bolts to be a crazy choice! 😂

Can't wait for you to bring the bike back to California, put it on the dyno and give us your impressions there. Thanks for the video.

Too bad it's not made in the UK.

Kinda excited for the 450 if it's as good as the 250. I currently race a YZ450F and I'm really happy with the bike after getting off a SXF450 two seasons ago. Could Triumph be the best of both worlds? Solid vid Josh as usual.

YES! Race it at a national please!

Take it to a gncc and ride it bone stock!

They should be able to set you up with a 450 for a National later in the summer. You’d like Budds Creek.

Super cool hearing and seeing Ricky's throttle control ! Awesome bike!

so with the engine having the same bore+stroke as the ktm 250, would you say it's stronger or has a different engine character? not that it matters to me but does it have the most powerfull engine in the 250 class as is claimed numerous times?

Sounds like a great bije. Watching Swoll ride it it seemed impressive. I think picky guy should be on every test

This test made me want to ride!!! Looks like a super fun bike

Triumph have been reborn making great products and their frames are already so well designed and are almost factory works spec in a production mass produced good value package. Theyre approach and taking their time in developing top quality and spec parts with the very best in the world japanese type production, QC to aircraft. Huge respect to the enthusiasm to make the top quality spec possible at a really good price that batters the competition. Their 675 daytona, original 90s trophy, 900 steamer tiger and later on the 800, 850, 900, 1050 tiger sport and 1200 shaft explorer have proven reliability going round the clock and now the 180bhp beautiful speed triple, the 1700 thunderbird, rocket 3 and bonneville 1200 tiger watercooled with great rolling chassis. Like the moto 2 765 motor, theyve taken the excellent design and specs into this TF250X with the complete engine, gearbox and rolling chassis all designed like to work together in harmony like Yamaha with the fantastic engine quality like suzuki, kawasaki and honda also with using some of the Dakar design ideas of companies like KTM, MV Agusta, Aprilia but at a far better price for Ducati type performance. It good its under 10k dollars and 47 bhp and so light. I cant wait for the 450. Only the Norton, crighton CR700 seem better in finish but they cost over £40000 for that V4. Its good to see but its sad BSA wasnt bought up by CCM and money and top brains and vision thrown at another great old brand. Their late 1960s dirt bikes were so beautiful and the frames were something else in the day. Same with Royal Enfield with the last british made interceptors of nearly 800cc which were so well balanced, powerful with great handling but it came too late. The indian 650 interceptor isnt a patch on the mk 3 interceptors. Sadly Sadiq has stabbed the petrol engine in the back.

Technically speaking, you're wrong, this isn't Triumphs 1st foray into dirt bikes, They were joint pioneers of the sport! In what we now call enduro they had a winning team in the ISDT, (now ISDE). They are basically doing the same thing KTM did, after nearly disappearing forever, then being bought, re imagined, reengineered, re marketed, and revamped! To becoming even more popular than they ever were. I don't believe this is one of those flash in the pan, half hearted attempts we've seen over the years, Triumph are a big company, with serious heritage in motorcycling, and a reputation to uphold, in the fickle, transient world of big business today, there's no way in Earth they would hang it all out, on a POS meager effort! Having the GOAT as a design and development consultant, and brand ambassador, SCREAMS volumes. RC wouldn't put his name and rep behind a lame horse. I love these, can't wait to ride one, can't wait till they do a 450 Enduro, so I can stick Supermoto wheels on that puppy, and have a monumental mid life crisis!!! 🤙😊😁. I wish them the best of British luck. 🏆🇬🇧

Way Trick. Excellent work

NOT rich but I have never cared about mpg when buying a car. I had a 06 escalade esv da long one and driving 2 hour round trip to work when I was 18 made me slowly care about MPG lol, it would get 9-11 ish, if you have less than 20 minutes to work I wouldnt care to much about mpg, MY OPINION

Too many buttons lol

ive got to be "that guy".... me, and a LOT of friends that race, stopped reading/watching/following MXA because we frankly got sick and tired of Jody and his attitude way back when (yes we are all vet guys now). Occasionally will hit a vid but never get far because they always have the "MXA" feel and lineage of hyperbole and just being pretentious, hoped this one would be different, and it was.... right up until Dennis explains to us that changing a plastic airbox cover, that snaps on, from vented to solid changed the way the front end worked, under braking, entering a corner, literally impossible. Your perception due to sound maybe, that's on the rider, nope, we are MXA, its the bike. This is literally placebo at it finest and the pretentious way it comes out is typical par for the course for MXA... sigh.

There’s no difference in kyb sss and aos other than valving. Hard components are the same. Idk why he makes them sound like it’s a totally different fork.

Yeah, that's great and all, but they still have the frame going over the head, and in 2024, I can tell you that it's a stupid move in my opinion. There is no space to work on the bike. I have a YZ450F 2007, and I absolutely hate the frame. Just getting the head cover off is a struggle, and I had to file the edge of the frame just to put the head cover back on. I don’t know for y'all, but no matter how fast or how good a bike is, if it’s a struggle to work on, I really don’t want it, for real

I wish I could steal engineering advancement ideas from two of the best companies on earth and then like Chino make a replica, but with a twist. Embarrassment to themselves. I’d be embarrassed to ride such a bike, but thats just me and anyone else that respects KTM and YAMAHA. I’d rather be seen riding a Coleman bike on the track. At least they’re powered by generic small well house pump engines surrounded by flat steel frames and tube forks and lawnmower tires.

350 pls

so.... for the ENTIRE REST of the WORLD who use the metric system, 219-220 lbs = 100 odd kilo's (kg.)

Great to see a Trumpet on the track

Here in the uk that bikes £100 more than the ktm a £1000 more that the yamaha and £1750 more than the honda and its mostly made in Thailand it weighs 230 pounds that's with a 100 sized rear tyre and the 2024 isn't out till April you can buy a 2025 ktm in May

Hand welding is better than robots, as long as you’re paying competitive wages for welders. I’d much rather have hand welded especially on aluminum alloys

The bike looks very nice,rides good,pulls good ....but why they use this torx bolts .....torx needs to be done of a really good material otherwise it will be a pain in the ass.. Like the bike very much.

Looks like im gunna be in the market for the 450 when it comes out

I've read MXA since the 80's, haven't bought the mag since like 05 or so. And I seem to remember them not being an infomercial?

Can't wait for the GH Triumph review! Also, go smash that national Josh.

Was this a paid “review”?

Great to see Triumph getting into the motocross market. It can only improve all the other brands down the road. Competition is great for the sport.

Damn, never knew there was a manuf. called “King Dick Tools”. Gotta get me some of those or at least a box.

Excellent video. This is how all new model release vids should be done. I too add my vote for Josh to race a national on the Triumph. You know you, and Triumph, will get a lot of press as a result.

Deffo triumph in the national ✊

10k is kinda steep

Why buy it when they have to run it off the rev limiter. Like any other 4st 250. Buurbblelet😅

Take it to a national! Side note to all MXA families & staff, sorry for your loss over this past weekend.