Adventure Bikes
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Affordable Adventure
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Chinese firm Voge has just revealed its new 650DSX Never heard of Voge before? The fledgling firm is a sub-brand of Chinese automotive giant Loncin (who have partnerships with several ‘big name’ manufacturers, including BMW). We’ve actually got a road test of the factory’s first bike to be released into the UK in this very…
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TOP READS – The Moment Collectors: Twenty Travellers’ Tales from Around the World
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One of our favourite adventurers and authors, Sam Manicom, has announced his latest celebration of motorcycle overlanding. Pulling together the expertise and experiences of twenty authors, ‘The Moment Collectors’ takes readers on a journey to the big sky plains of Mongolia, African Deserts, the majesty of Pamir Highway, the far reaches of Alaska, the breath-taking…
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Electric TT winners Mugen gears up to hit the dirt
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Mugen has dominated the Isle of Man’s electric Zero TT around the infamous 37.72-mile-long Mountain Course in recent years – and now the Japanese tuning specialist and electric motorcycle manufacturer is preparing to get involved in another type of racing: Enduro. It’ll be competing in the brand-new FIM E-Xplorer World Cup which will be running…
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Ridden! Honda CRF1100 Africa Twin Adventure Sport
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Words: Dave Manning Although the looks are near identical to the standard version, the bike you see here is the Adventure Sports version of the Africa Twin and, as such, it has one or two upgrades, such as the larger 24.8-litre fuel tank, and the Showa EERA electronic suspension. Although it still has the same…
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Ridden! Triumph Tiger 900 Rally
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Words By Gary Hartshome With BMW celebrating 40 years of development with the GS and almost every manufacturer jumping on the Adventure bike bandwagon in recent years, it’s a big ask for manufacturers to compete with the mighty German behemoth. So, will Triumph’s latest effort get close? As a GS owner and rider myself I…
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Ridden! Yamaha Tenere 700
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Words: Ross Mowbray I’ve been waiting a long time to ride this bike. It’s right up my street – a spiritual successor to the big trail bikes of yesteryear that have lost favour with the advent of even bigger, heavier adventure bikes. Okay, the T7 is still an adventure bike, but it’s one that’s been…
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Ridden! KTM 390 Adventure
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Everyone has their own slightly different opinion about what it is that defines an adventure motorcycle. For some riders, an adventure simply involves a long slog on the motorway broken up by a couple of tame trails, but for others it means standing on the pegs for hours at a time churning up mud at…
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The Royal Enfield Himalayan 650 has ARRIVED
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But sadly it’s the work of Cooperb Motorcycles and not the factory… There’ve been rumours that Royal Enfield’s quietly working away on a bigger version of its much-loved Himalayan since it was first revealed to the world back in 2015. A couple of years later, in 2017, with the unveiling of its Interceptor and Continental…
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Yamaha announce Ténéré 700 World Raid
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Yamaha is about to open up a new dimension in adventure riding with the latest Ténéré 700 World Raid – a premium long distance motorcycle that offers excellent on/off road ability combined with outstanding versatility and an enjoyable riding character. Equipped to go further than any previous Ténéré, and featuring the most advanced specification that…
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Dirt-Ready Ducati!
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The Italian factory has revealed all the information about its most off-road oriented motorcycle for years: the Desert X. Here’s what you need to know. The DesertX’s beating heart is a tweaked version of Ducati’s infamous 937cc liquid cooled Testastretta Desmodromic valvetrain engine which offers a healthy 110hp at 9250rpm and 92Nm of torque at…
