With Triumph recently launching its new 798cc platform in the Tiger Sport 800 and Trident 800, many assumed the answer was obvious. Speaking to Visordown, Triumph Chief Product Officer Steve Sargent has confirmed the new Moto2 engine is not based on the Tiger Sport 800 or Trident 800. Rather than asking how much more performance could be extracted from an existing road bike engine, Triumph first worked out what Moto2 needed from its next-generation powerplant. Triumph Tiger Sport 800 sideSargent stopped short of revealing the origins of the new engine, but he was unequivocal about what it isn't. Asked whether it shared its architecture with the recently launched Tiger Sport 800 and Trident 800, he replied simply:"It's categorically not the Tiger Sport 800 engine.