Glad you found it useful ☺️🙏🏼 we do love the Rally Pro!!

@@advtravelbug6100 Hi Fiona how are you just wondering if you can do a pillion ride at all

@@matthewholmes7597 I’m not very keen on having a pillion … maybe later with more experience 😉

@@advtravelbug6100 just sent you a email fiona

Thank you 🤗

Thanks Ian - couldn’t agree more ☺️🙏🏻

Thank you 🙏 The customisations definitely helped with confidence and we were pretty impressed with the results. The next step is to become more confident to have the bike less lowered because it comes at the cost of ground clearance of course!

Thanks guys, they really did an amazing job and I love riding it ☺️ can’t wait to go for a ride together !!

Thank you ☺️🙏🏻 Hoping to do some off road training in spring and keep getting better at off road 💪🏻

Thanks guys 🤗

Thank you ☺️ We are a little behind so plenty more to come 🙌🏼

Thank you, thank you, thank you 🤗 it’s definitely as exciting as I wished and more !!! Loving it so far!

Thank you ☺️🙏🏻

Must be your first class training 😉 Thanks darling 😘

As you can see I had plenty of use for it 🤣👍

Thanks Sam and we can't wait to get the channel up to date with our travels. It's hard to keep editing as we are full-time riding around the world (currently in Africa). You can find us on Instagram too by the way, our adventures are more up to date there. But we hope to share everything on our KZfaq channel eventually!

Thanks for joining our journey Simon and we trust you are enjoying your Tiger 900 as much as we do 🙌🏼

Thank you ☺️🙏

Thank you ☺️ That last crash definitely hurt a little but I’m recovered now haha

Thank you 😊🙏🏻

Thanks for subscribing ☺️ Believe it or not we still have all our belongings in Colombia … never got round to collecting them since the pandemic …

Haha well as you know I went back to being a pillion BUT that was purely a cost-driven decision. I absolutely love riding, still haven't decided if I prefer twisty mountain roads or going off-road. We rented some light KTMs in the Sahara desert a few months ago which was amazing. And we are planning to do some dune riding in Namibia soon :)

Thank you! Glad you’re enjoying our videos! Actually I only got my license in the middle of august last year so I didn’t ride the BMW. But for Sandra, she much prefers the Tiger. It’s lighter and feels more agile during off-road.

Thanks Anna and yes I completely agree I might want more ground clearance in the future and I may well consider this as I gain more confidence ☺️ Great advice - thank you !!

@@advtravelbug6100 so happy to see more and more women on the road! Safe travels!

@@RidingPandas Agreed and we just subscribed to your channel too ☺️ Happy travels 🙏🏻

Thanks Gavin. Yes, absolutely loving it 😆🙌🏼

Thank you ☺️🙏🏼 we are currently in Croatia

Awesome 🙌🏼 Are you loving it? We’ll be exploring Africa on the Tiger next !!

Thanks Nigel. With the right skills I know I can ride any bike BUT as a new rider on my very first bike I wanted to make sure that I feel confident until I built up enough skills 🙏🏻

@@advtravelbug6100 100% correct, if you feel confident on the bike that will help massively with your performance and riding ability, and ultimately fun factor

@@nigeltankard6977 💯 can’t wait to keep going 😁

It is the TOURATECH Compañero Summer traveller suit. We love it!!!

Haha love it!!! Glad she’s as happy as I am with her set up!!🙌🏼🙌🏼

How much does it cost to do that customization? I am 4'11

@@anabanana7122 would say up to $1000 for shocks and labor, like seat or kickstand I did by myself…. But all depends what shocks or what shop will do it🤷🏻‍♂️

@@anabanana7122 The Touratech Suspension lowering shock (-20mm) for Tiger 900 Rally Pro costs 1,270 Euro. I don’t think you need the lowered seat necessarily. I don’t know exactly the cost of the lowered stand but you’d also need to factor this in.

@@anabanana7122 Hi Ana, the height lowering kit costs 282 Euros. Then remember that the kickstand had to be tweaked. I don’t know the exact price of the lowered seat but I imagine you would want this also so best to enquire directly with Touratech. The rest of the customisations are not related to the lowering, just need to add the installation cost for the suspension lowering kit spending on where you are getting it done. Hope this helps ☺️🙏

Thank you Alessandro. So the Tiger 900 Rally Pro always has heated seats, which you lose when you switch to the lowered seat. Touratech did custom make this specific seat for me. They shaved 2-3 cm off without losing the heated seat function.

@@advtravelbug6100 Thank you very much so you used the original saddle on which you eliminated the 2-3 cm. Thanks again for the quick reply and I wish you a good road.

@@alessandrobeverelli5050 Exactly - all done by Touratech ☺️ thank you 🙏🏻

Triumph offers a lowered side stand. It will work with the Touratech lowering kit but we didn’t like the lean angle. So we asked Touratech to make some last minute changes (the result of which you can see in the video).

We are wearing the Touratech Compañero Suits, consisting of a super vented summer suit and an additional waterproof and windproof layer (though I'm just wearing the summer suit here). I know I chose a very big first bike and I certainly wouldn't have done this without the Touratech customisations that gave me extra confidence as a short rider. My partner Sandra was riding the Tiger 900 Rally Pro and ideally we wanted to ride similar bikes, rather than have me on a super light dirt bike and not being able to keep up on the road trip. I love the bike but I also have fun on smaller bikes! I also considered the GS as I had the chance to ride it for some off-road training and also got on great with it. We actually started our world trip on a GS. I don't like test riding bikes as they are rarely lowered enough for me to feel confident, so it was a matter of sticking with the Tiger which we had been riding two up for about a year already. Sandra noticed a massive difference in the suspension on her first ride. She couldn't go back to a stock suspension now. As for me, I have to admit that I've been spoiled a little as I never rode the stock suspension (bike was too high) so I can't tell you how it compares, but I can tell you that I'm very happy with it :)

@@advtravelbug6100 Thanks for responding to my questions! I am going to check out that riding gear.

Good question. Why is every bike designed for tall riders? For sure the modifications come at a great cost and it's a compromise. I have lost a lot of ground clearance for example!

I’m glad you found this video helpful! Hope you get your license soon and find the perfect bike for you…now that you can set it up to fit you☺️🙌🏼

Hiya, sorry for the delayed reply. We are currently in West Africa. 10 days for Vancouver to California sounds indeed like a lot of time in the saddle. We still don't like riding crazy long hours on the bike. Prefer slow travel but out here we are travelling much faster to avoid rainy season. Safe travels :)

Wow you must be riding super hard as they lasted us a good amount of time 😆 … just find them a bit slippery on the road in the rain …

@@advtravelbug6100 actually not at all, I've been carrying a dog around the past few months, so haven't had a chance to ride hard. My gf has Dunlop trailmax since 10,000km and I swear to God, they still look only slightly used. They're incredible

@@itismegarry So we run the Metzler Karoo tyres on both bikes and neither needs changing although we’ve ridden them from the Touratech HQ in Germany, through France, all across Spain and Portugal. It’s not my favourite tyre but I sure am surprised to hear how little mileage you are getting out of them 🤷🏻‍♀️

@@advtravelbug6100 that's incredible. I've only noticed how fast I chew through tyres since i got an Africa twin. Before that, no issues... Maybe it is about the throttle hand after all 😂

@@itismegarry 🤣🤣🤣👍

Hi Mark, Touratech customised it for me because the standard kickstand from Triumph for their lowered Tiger didn’t work for me so we had to tweak it a little more!

So happy to hear you found this helpful ☺️ Sure, all the details are listed in the blog: advtravelbug.com/this-is-my-lowered-tiger-900-rally-pro/ Ride safe ☺️🙏🏼

Unfortunately not right this moment as shipping to South America has increased so much that we decided to continue our travels in Africa for now … but we can’t wait to return to South America - so much left to explore !!

Hi Bob, these are the Metzeler Karoo tires. I have to admit I don’t love them as I find them very slippy in the rain on tarmac. I much preferred the Scorpion Pirelli Rally. As die the noise, I can’t tell you as we never have regular street tires so we are probably the wrong people to ask 😅

@@advtravelbug6100 Thank you for the reply

We sure can!

It's actually even lower as it was fully shaved down / customised by Touratech.

Thanks and I may do this in the future. But I just got my license and this was my first bike so getting my feet on the ground was my main priority to start with. But I know this comes at the cost of ground clearance and I can address this as I gain more experience. I know a lot of people who think this bike is too tall for them so just wanted to show them that it can be lowered beyond the lowered seat option of the dealership ☺️

I would love to know how much was this setup

I am 161.5 cm ☺️

My inner seam is 76cm, I mention it briefly at 54seconds ☺️

@@advtravelbug6100 oh thank you. I'm 5'11" but my inseam is 2.5 cm less 😂

Yes for sure any customisations always are but this is Fiona’s first ever bike and there is no chance she could have ridden such a big first bike st her height and the original seat 😅

Wow, that sounds terrible. Well I have to say they work great on the Tiger because I can't even count the amount of bike drops I've had with it! Haven't heard anything like this from anyone else using them. Lea Rick from Got 2 Go is using Touratech on her T7 and she is very satisfied with them. Are you sure they were fitted on correctly? I mean it's not rocket science, just can't believe you had such a bad experience with it ... sorry to hear that!

That’s a fair question, actually we chose to have the same bike initially and he work was done afterwards. I’ve not found that any of the changes have been hard on my knees at all, but this could be because it is a different bike?

We understand that the sentence means that Touratech recommend lowering both the front and the rear, i.e. both, and not just putting the fork through. Hope this helps :)