Touring Bikes
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Yamaha Tracer 900: Review and road test
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Winter is not usually when you fall in love with a bike, but the Tracer 900 is doing its best to seduce Mikko.
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Happy Retirement Biking – part 1: Right bike for older riders
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In this series of articles we show you how to keep riding into your retirement and still enjoy every single mile…
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Honda Gold Wing improvements for 2021 to regain touring crown
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Honda is looking for regain the touring crown with a host of updates to the Honda Gold Wing. The luxurious new model, completely reborn in 2018, has further improvements in the tech and comfort departments. Related articles: What does the 2021 COVID-19 lockdown mean for motorcyclists? John McGuinness awarded MBE for services to motorcycling Honda…
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South Africa tour, day 11: Back to Cape Town, the long way round
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The last day of riding in South Africa. How did we get here so quick? It seemed that we’d only just started, but at the same time we’d covered a whole heap of things in the two weeks we’d been on the road.
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South Africa tour, day 10: Penultimate riding day
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This was a different day of riding in two ways: first of all, it was cloudy with showers forecast. For the first time on the tour I closed the air-vents in my jacket, and as if by a miracle I wasn’t instantly covered in sweat.
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South Africa tour, day 9: To the southernmost tip of Africa
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Today was another long slog of 400+km. But the reward at the end was big too: Cape Agulhas, Africa’s southernmost point.
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South Africa tour, day 8: From wilderness to Wilderness
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This was a long day in the saddle. We left the Mount Camdeboo Nature Reserve nice and early to make the most of the cool temperature because the forecast for the day was 39°C.
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South Africa tour, day 7: Turning back
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This was not a long day in the saddle, but it was a significant one: Today our progress to the East came to an end, and we started make our ziggedy zaggedy way back to Cape Town.
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South Africa tour, day 6: Elephant safari
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Day six was the first one where we didn’t even touch the bikes. Instead we headed off to a safari in the Addo Elephant National Park.
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South Africa tour, day 5: All the way to the East
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After two nights in Oudtshoorn, we were on the move again. And today’s ride was a long one – 455km of country lanes to Addo, near Port Elizabeth.
