Adventure Bikes
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Yamaha’s working on POWER STEERING for bikes
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Yamaha has released some details about a new power steering system for motorcycles, which it’s trialling for the Japanese MX championship. Power steering on bikes…? Who needs that? Well, Yamaha reckons there’s something in it – which is why it’s revealed its own Electronic Power Steering system. The Japanese factory is trying it out on…
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What we use: The SH59X from SHAD. It’s a bit of a whopper…
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We’re going to talk more about the stuff we use in our biking lives – stuff we use day in, day out. Stuff that gets hammered by mother nature, continued use and bears the scars of oodles of wear and tear. We hammer a lot of stuff and it’s time to tell you how it’s…
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BACK TO BRITAIN: Triumph’s UK factory to build more than 20,000 bikes a year
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After moving the last of its mass production to Thailand a couple of years ago, the British factory has now announced that it’s going to be building more bikes at its Hinkleybased factory. The plan at the time was for Triumph’s UK HQ to focus on research and development, in addition to producing prototype, bespoke…
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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…
