Touring Bikes

  • Video: 2017 Ducati Scramblers get their own teaser films – the Desert Sled bike and the Cafe Racer model

    Video: 2017 Ducati Scramblers get their own teaser films – the Desert Sled bike and the Cafe Racer model

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    Video: 2017 Ducati Scramblers get their own teaser films – the Desert Sled bike and the Cafe Racer model. Do you remember when we told you – a month ago – that there were SIX versions of Ducati Scramblers coming out for 2017? Click HERE for our original, first story. Well, Ducati has released a…

  • Video: When Adventure riding goes bad. Held at gunpoint on the edge of Area 51 in the USA!

    Video: When Adventure riding goes bad. Held at gunpoint on the edge of Area 51 in the USA!

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    WARNING: The sound on this video is NOT safe for work (not that our warning will stop you, of course, it’s just that we should warn you. OK?)   How about this for a dramatic, nerve-raking moment when out doing a bit of gentle ‘Adventure’ riding? Video of two armed security men getting right up…

  • Here’s BMW’s K1600B – the 6 cylinder bagger based around the new GT tourer. In someone’s spare bedroom, apparently

    Here’s BMW’s K1600B – the 6 cylinder bagger based around the new GT tourer. In someone’s spare bedroom, apparently

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    BMW has unleashed this latest creation – it’s new K1600B. Apprently pictured inside someone’s spare bedroom in an unfurnished bit of a house. OK, maybe not, but you’ve got to admit that the setting for the official pictures (above) isn’t the usual setting for a bike like this. Anyway, essentially, it’s the K1600GT that we…

  • SPY SHOTS! Here’s EVEN MORE shots of the G310GS mini-Adventure bike!

    SPY SHOTS! Here’s EVEN MORE shots of the G310GS mini-Adventure bike!

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    SPY SHOTS! Here’s EVEN MORE shots of the G310GS mini-Adventure bike! The guys at the Italian publication Motociclismo have bagged these great pics of the little BMW Adventure bike – the G310GS, which is going to be a big (small capacity) addition to the German company’s 2017 range. We’re calling it that because it’s powered…

  • SPY SHOT! More G310GS pictures appears during road ride!

    SPY SHOT! More G310GS pictures appears during road ride!

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    SPY SHOT! More G310GS pictures appears during road ride! Check out these pics that’ve been sent to us today – it’s the tiny GS from BMW and this time it’s been caught in all its little road riding glory.   We’ve already brought you spy shots caught on a mobile phone camera in what looked…

  • Intermot show: LEAKED! 2017 Ducati SuperSport REVEALED! MORE PICS!

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    Ok, here’s the first pics proper of the Ducati SuperSport that is going to be officially launched later today at Intermot in Germany. The pictures have surfaced on Cooper Bike this morning. The bike below is the SuperSport S. We know it’s the 939 Testastretta motor in a steel trellis frame. The screen is pretty…

  • Intermot show: Suzuki updates 2017 V-Strom 1000

    Intermot show: Suzuki updates 2017 V-Strom 1000

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      Suzuki has added cornering ABS to the big bike and there are two distinct versions of the big bike for 2017 – the Standard (road bike) and the XT (some pretence for off-road with wire wheels). The windscreen has a new design to cut out the annoying turbulence that plagued the previous model and…

  • Intermot show: Moto Guzzi’s 2017 Audace Carbon cruiser is launched

    Intermot show: Moto Guzzi’s 2017 Audace Carbon cruiser is launched

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      Intermot show: Moto Guzzi’s 2017 Audace Carbon cruiser is launched. Moto Guzzi has just launched this – the Audace Carbon cruiser at the Intermot Show in Germany. The bike is pretty much the same as previous models of the Audace but it does now get the firm’s new cruise control mated to the 90…

  • 2017 Kawasaki Versys 1000 REVEALED. Colours and a dash change

    2017 Kawasaki Versys 1000 REVEALED. Colours and a dash change

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    2017 Kawasaki Versys 1000 REVEALED. Colours and a dash change Here’s the 2017 Kawasaki Versys 1000 in first-look pictures ahead of the official launch. For next year the big sport tourer isn’t getting much in the way of mechanical changes it would seem – but what it does get is a new cosmetic touch with…

  • My bike: 2014 Yamaha Super Ténéré

    My bike: 2014 Yamaha Super Ténéré

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    60-year-old semi-retired teacher Hugh Fuller shares his experience of Yamaha’s adventure bike…   I’ve been riding since I was 16 (on a stripped down Honda fifty), and now ride around four to five thousand miles a year. I don’t own any other bikes now, but have put 9600 on the Super Ten, which I bought…

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