Honda’s Ricky Brabec has triumphed at the 2020 Dakar Rally, taking the title for the Japanese factory for the first time since 1989. After 18
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Category: Adventure Bikes
WORLD LAUNCH: First RIDING impressions. Honda’s Africa Twin Adventure Sports
We’re out in Sardinia for the launch of Honda’s three new Africa Twins. Today we’ve been riding the top of the range Adventure Sports with
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WORLD LAUNCH: 2020 Honda Africa Twin & Adventure Sports road & off-road riding impressions
WORLD LAUNCH: We ride the new 2020 Honda Africa Twin & Adventure Sports! Here’s our exclusive road & off-road riding impressions!
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Honda confirms THREE new Africa Twins for 2020. Here’s everything you need to know.
Honda’s just revealed all the information about its new CRF1100F Africa Twin – and for 2020 there are three different models to choose from. There’s
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FIRST RIDE: Sur-Ron’s Light Bee ELECTRIC off-roader.
Slowly but surely, the wider motorcycle community is cottoning on to the fact that electric is here, and is here to stay – and as
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VIDEO: How to WHEELIE an ADVENTURE bike with Chris Birch.
Eight-time New Zealand Enduro champion and three-time Roof of Africa winner Chris Birch has released a video explaining how to wheelie an adventure bike. Chris
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WORLD LAUNCH: Moto Guzzi’s V85 TT
MoreBikes is out in Sardinia for the launch of Moto Guzzi’s new V85 TT – and after spending the day carving corners on the Italian
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WORLD LAUNCH: Kawasaki Versys 1000 SE Grand Tourer
Words: Mikko Nieminen, Editor, Motorcycle Sport & Leisure magazine Photography: Kawasaki The new Kawasaki Versys 1000 SE is not an adventure bike in the dirt-riding,
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FIRST RIDE: Honda CRF250L
Trails, twisties and traffic – Honda’s hugely successful CRF250L can do it all. Dual-sport motorcycles live in a land of compromise. The jack-of-all-trades of the
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FIRST RIDE: UM DSR EX 125
MCM has been test riding UM Motorcycles enduro-inspired commuter, the DSR EX 125 – putting it through its paces across the Lincolnshire Wolds, taking in
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WORLD LAUNCH: Ducati Multistrada 1260 Enduro (2019)
SMALLER. BIG(GER). MIGHTY(ER) With upgrades to just about every aspect you could think of, Ducati reckons its incredible Multistrada 1260 Enduro has just got even
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FIRST RIDE: BMW’s all-new 2019 R1250GS. Here’s what we thought from the WORLD LAUNCH.
WORDS BY: Matt Hull (in Sunny Portugal). The new BMW R 1250 GS was never going to look dramatically different – why change the best-selling
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Say WHAT? Here’s Harley-Davidson’s NEW Pan America 1250 Adventure bike. Yep. It’s real.
Talk about turning your motorcycle world upside-down! Harley-Davidson has just revealed it’s huge plans for the future with a raft of new motorcycles ranging from
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First Ride: Honda CRF250L Rally
Of all the bikes in Honda’s line-up, the CRF250L Rally is arguably the most interesting. Honda claims it’s inspired by the factory CRF450 Rally –
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Launch ride: 2018 Triumph Tiger 800 XRT & XCA
Triumph’s latest Tiger 800s claim to be better in every way, on and off-road. We headed out to Morocco to see if that’s true. If
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VIDEO: A first look at the Triumph Tiger 800
Mikko’s been out to Morocco for the launch of the all-new Triumph Tiger 800 XRT and XCA. Here are his first impressions… For the full
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First Ride – Husqvarna 701 Enduro (A2 Restricted)
SINGLE CYLINDER SAVIOUR: HUSKY’S NEW 701 ENDURO Founded in Sweden in 1903, the same year as Harley-Davidson – the traditionally off-road-oriented Husqvarna brand is now
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First Ride: Benelli TRK 502
BENELLI BACK WITH A BANG WITH ITS ALL NEW A2 LICENCE ADVENTURE ORIENTED TRK 502 Adventure tourers are everywhere; they’ve topped the sales charts in the UK
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Launch ride: 2018 Ducati Multistrada 1260 S
Ducati Multistrada gets bigger, cleverer and more powerful for 2018 – and it’s more rideable too. For 2018 Ducati has updated its Multistrada range with
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First ride: Suzuki V-Strom 250
Just over a year ago there wasn’t really such a thing as a small adventure bike segment in any meaningful way. Then, at the
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Video: Honda’s X-ADV adventure/city scooter thing
Here’s our Mikko’s video account of his first ride on the Honda X-Adv during the world launch in Sardinia. You can read his full review
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Bigger Royal Enfield on the way. Confirmed by RE boss. Likely to be a 750cc version of the Adventure bike.
Royal Enfield CEO and Managing Director Siddhartha Lal has confirmed that a bigger-engined Himalayan is on the way from the Indian company. In an interview
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First Ride: Kawasaki Versys-X 300
Who am I? I’m Ross – the new staff writer for Motor Cycle Monthly. A couple of months ago I passed my full bike test,
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Launch ride: 2017 KTM 1290 Super Adventure S
The 1290 Super Adventure S is a hybrid. KTM has taken the more compact form of the 1190 Adventure, filled it with the 1290’s, 1301cc
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Video: When you’re over-hyped for the start of the race…
You’ve got to admire this kid’s energy! Sometimes you’re just that little bit over-hyped before the start of a local moto… we hugely admire this
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Triumph’s Bonneville Bobber and Street Scrambler hits dealers
Triumph’s Bonneville Bobber and Street Scrambler hits dealers. The wait is finally over for Triumph fans as the arrival of two new iconic models, the
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SPY SHOTS: KTM’s next gen roadster is FINISHED and we’ve caught it out on SECRET road tests
SPY SHOTS: KTM’s next gen roadster is FINISHED and we’ve caught it out on SECRET road tests. Whilst we were the first
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Launch ride: Ducati Scrambler Desert Sled
Words: Alastair Fagan Photography: Milagro Just days after Ducati announced another record-breaking year for the Bologna factory in 2016, we were riding a new version
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Launch ride: Triumph Street Scrambler
The iconic Triumph Scrambler is back, reincarnated as the new Street Scrambler The Street Twin has been the best-selling bike in the 2016 water-cooled Bonneville
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Sena invents the rangeless helmet intercom system. Stay in touch no matter how far you ride, as you ride
Sena invents the rangeless helmet intercom system. Stay in touch no matter how far you ride, as you ride. We’re big fans of the Sena
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Touratech unveils super-lightweight BMW R 1200 GS Rambler
Think the BMW R1200 GS is too big and clumsy for real world adventure riding? Think again! Touratech has just released details of the R
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Video: Rockstar Husqvarna factory Dakar preview
Video: Rockstar Husqvarna factory Dakar preview. The Dakar Rally gets underway on January 2 and whilst we’re all going to be getting over the New
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Get BOOKING for the BRILLIANT Arenacross Tour FMX events!
Arenacross Tour 7th January to 18th February 2017 Manchester – Glasgow – Birmingham – Belfast – Sheffield – London The gate drops
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Video: Haiden Deegan (10) rides his dad’s factory 450cc motocross bike. Yep.
Video: Haiden Deegan (10) rides his dad’s factory 450cc motocross bike. Yep. The next time someone tells you that a 450 motocross bike is too
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2 wheel drive, huge torque electric bikes launched in Italy (and they look this trick)
2 wheel drive, huge torque electric bikes launched in Italy (and they look this trick). Check out these two-wheel-drive electric off-roaders that are now on
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SPY SHOTS: Gotcha! KTM’s 2018 390 Adventure caught out and about on the road
SPY SHOTS: Gotcha! KTM’s 2018 390 Adventure caught out and about on the road. Hot on the heels of our first look at the
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X-Lite launches the flip-up carbon touring helmet. Sweet.
X-Lite launches the flip-up carbon touring helmet. Sweet. This is the new X-Lite X-1004 DYAD Ultra Carbon – X-Lite’s lightest ever flip up lid
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Launch ride: Ducati Multistrada 950
Launch ride: Ducati Multistrada 950. Words: Mikko Nieminen Photos: Ducati The Ducati Multistrada 950 is the new, more accessible addition to the Multistrada family. Ducati
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Video: Valentino Rossi takes on dirt track legend Brad Baker at the Rossi ranch
Video: Valentino Rossi takes on dirt track legend Brad Baker at the Rossi ranch. Check out this video of two legends having some dirt track
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SPY SHOTS: Caught out! KTM’s 2018 790 Adventure spied testing on the road
SPY SHOTS: Caught out! KTM’s 2018 790 Adventure spied testing on the road. These are the first pictures of the upcoming 800cc Enduro bike
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Video: Riding trials around an active volcano
Video: Riding trials around an active volcano. It’s been a while since we put this out there, but it’s worth watching again – and if
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Video: AMAZING skills on show from Enduro God Graham Jarvis
So this video from Husqvarna is supposedly a ‘Jarvis passes on his skills to young wonder Pascal Rauchenecker’. That might be so, but we keep
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Spied: Mystery BMW GS snapped by Italians on the road. What do you reckon this is?
Spied: Mystery BMW GS snapped by Italians on the road. What do you reckon this is? So what the hell is this thing snapped by
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Motorcycle Live! Check out the AWESOME FMX Live Arenacross show EVERY DAY!
Motorcycle Live! Check out the AWESOME FMX Live Arenacross show EVERY DAY! FMX Live presented by Arenacross returns to Motorcycle Live at the NEC next
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Motorcycle Live! A 2017 thing to go and do: Try out an Adventure bike for real!
Motorcycle Live! A 2017 thing to go and do: Try out an Adventure bike for real! As you know by now, Motorcycle Live! is on
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Video: When mini bikes go so, so wrong (big air, big ouch…)
Video: When mini bikes go so, so wrong (big air, big ouch…) Sometimes a jump comes up kinda short – and sometimes your efforts go
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Revealed: Yamaha’s first full patent drawings for its production all-electric off-roader (just appeared)
Revealed: Yamaha’s first full patent drawings for its production all-electric off-roader (just appeared). These designs for a fully electric motocross-styled bike have just appeared
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Meet the world’s first customised Royal Enfield Himalayan (yep).
Meet the world’s first customised Royal Enfield Himalayan (yep). So this is what you can do with the new Enfield Himalayan – yep, this is
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Honda’s GTR Adventure appears as official Honda special at motorcycle show… hmmm…
Honda’s GTR Adventure appears as official Honda special at motorcycle show… hmmm… Whilst Eicma eyes were on the X-ADV adventure scooter (below) thing from Honda
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