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Adventure & Dual-Sport Motorcycle Reviews

2011 Triumph Tiger 800 | Road Test Review

  We motorcyclists are a lucky lot. The source of our passion is, in most cases, inexpensive, fuel efficient, reliable and a fount of endless...

2011 Triumph Tiger 800 and 800XC | First Ride Review

Triumph’s tagline is “Go Your Own Way,” a mantra fulfilled by building motorcycles that are, if not wholly unconventional, certainly on the outskirts of...

2012 Yamaha Super Ténéré | Road Test Review

photography by Riles & Nelson Ténéré (pronounced tey-ney-rey), which means “desert” in the language of nomadic Tuaregs, refers to a vast, dune-filled Saharan plain that...

2010 BMW R 1200 GS | Road Test Review

photography by Kevin Wing and Jonathan Beck Standing beside the mud-splattered, 2010 BMW R 1200 GS in my garage, I was losing my patience. A...

2010 Ducati Multistrada S Touring – Road Test Review

  When Ducati introduced the Multistrada 1000 for 2003, it was really launching the Italian company’s first street supermoto bike, but no one was associating...

2009 KTM 690 Enduro R | Road Test Review

If dirt’s your game, the 2009 KTM 690 Enduro R has the chops to take you anywhere you want to go (within its 150-mile...

2009 KTM 990 Adventure | Road Test Review

photography by Scott Hirko For most of the 1990s, KTM’s 640 Adventure single served as its sole adventure-touring bike, a capable but buzzy and uncomfortable...

2009 Moto Guzzi Stelvio – Road Test Review

Of all the manufacturers attempting to cash in on the success of BMW's R1200GS by producing rival machines, Moto Guzzi ought to have the...

2009 Harley-Davidson Electra Glide Classic vs. Buell Ulysses XB12XT – Comparison Test Review

Freedom! That’s what these four score and some years we enjoy on this planet are all about. Freedom to live your life the way...

2009 Buell Ullysses XB12XT – Road Test Review

When was the last time you could get two bikes for the price of one? You won’t find that offer at your local dealer...

2009 Moto Guzzi Stelvio 1200 4V – Road Test Review

photography by Kevin Wing and Mike Callahan The best roads in this country are the ones with little or no traffic—at least to my way...

2009 BMW K 1300 GT Road Test

photography by Kevin Wing One measly pound, just 16 ounces. That’s how little weight the top-line 2009 BMW K 1300 GT sport tourer has gained,...

2009 BMW G 650 GS | Road Test Review

Growing up I owned a series of Honda "thumpers"-single-cylinder four-stroke bikes-starting with an XL250 basket-case I sort-of reassembled that ran for about two weeks,...

2009 BMW F 800 GS | Road Test Review

What have we here? A middleweight version of the venerable R 1200 GS? A lighter, more manageable iteration of the long-way-around traveler? Well, not quite.... At...

Rider's 250-class Dual-Sport Motorcycle Comparison Review

photography by the author, James Norris, Roger Eggers and Kail Wathne "Let's get small." With gas nudging five bucks a gallon, the tag line from...

2009 Kawasaki KLX250S | Road Test Review

Have plate, will travel--that's dual-sporting in a nutshell, and nowhere is that description more appropriate than in Death Valley National Park in California and...

2008 BMW R1200GS and R1200GS Adventure | Road Test Review

photography by the author and Kevin Wing A good motorcycle is like a good suit of clothes -- it should fit properly and be comfortable....

2008 Honda CRF230L | Road Test Review

Honda certainly has a proud history of producing four-stroke powered dual-sport machines (previously called dual-purpose machines) dating back to the 1972 XL250KO. For many...

2008 Buell Ulysses XB12XT | Road Test Review

When Buell peeled the covers off the new 2006 Ulysses XB12X at its launch in 2005 and officially jumped into the adventure-bike category, it...

2008 KTM LC4 Singles | Road Test Review

On the afternoon flight home from Spain via London, you head west over Greenland. The effect is that of an endless sunset, as the...

2008 Kawasaki KLR650 | Road Test Review

I don't know what you've been doing for the past 21 years, but over at Kawasaki they've been listening, and making lists. The company's...

2009 BMW F 800 GS | First Ride Review

The clues are obvious--chain drive, inverted fork, 21-inch front rim, tall seat. With all of that cloaked in bodywork that says, "Let's explore," it...

2007 KTM 990 Adventure | Road Test Review

I'll never forget the day it dawned on me. It was about 20 years ago, and I was riding a 1,000cc sport tourer on...

2007 Honda XR650L, Kawasaki KLR650 and Suzuki DR650S | Comparison Review

A lot of riders look at these three motorcycles, scratch their heads, and wonder just what they're meant for. Anybody who desires a good...

BMW R1200GS Adventure African Tour and Motorcycle Test

photography by Mark Tuttle and Arnold Debus Since BMW has used the word “Adventure” in the name of this latest big boxer model, as it...

2005 Triumph Tiger | Road Test Review

When a rider contemplates getting a new bike, the very first consideration is usually which type of bike it should be. Should it be...

Taking Baja by V-Strom

It was a tolerable day, Kurt and I agreed, as we sat in the shade of a palapa on the sand at Bahia Concepción...

Long-Term ’Strom: 15,000 Miles on Suzuki’s Adventure Tourer

It only took sitting on it to decide I wanted one. In a market saturated with bikes with punitive ergonomics, or blinding acres of...

2002 Suzuki DL1000 V-Strom – Road Test Review

by Bill Stermer, photography by Rich Cox/Slide Action There was a time was when motorcycles were just sizes and numbers. You started on a 90cc...

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