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2015 KTM 1290 Super Adventure | First Ride Review

With triple-digit rear-wheel horsepower, state-of-the-art electronics and enough comfort, range and carrying capacity to make multiple 1,000-mile days seem easy, today’s big-bore adventure tourers...

Dual-Sporting in Northern California on the Kawasaki KLR650 New Edition

Adventures are good. They don’t have to be big adventures, like crossing the Sahara Desert or Panama’s Darien Gap, but can be quite small and...

2014 KTM 1190 Adventure / R | Long-term Review

Photos by Kevin Wing, Rich Cox, Mark Tuttle and Greg Drevenstedt Any day now, our long-term 2014 KTM 1190 Adventure test bike will be going...

2015 Triumph Tiger 800 XRx and Tiger 800 XCx | First Ride Review

In late 2010, at the EICMA show in Milan, Italy, Triumph pulled the covers off two all-new middleweight adventure tourers, the street-oriented Tiger 800...

2015 Triumph Tiger 800 XR and XC – First Look Review

Triumph’s Tiger 800 and Tiger 800 XC adventure tourers, introduced for 2011, impressed us with their torquey in-line triples, good handling and versatility, earning Rider’s...

2015 BMW S 1000 XR – First Look Review

Since its debut for 2010, BMW’s S 1000 RR sportbike, powered by a ferocious in-line four-cylinder engine that makes a claimed 190 horsepower (for...

2015 Ducati Multistrada 1200 DVT – First Look Review

At the EICMA show in Milan, Italy, Ducati announced a major update to its Multistrada 1200 for 2015, the third generation of its sport/adventure...

CSC Motorcycles to Import the RX-3 Cyclone, a 250cc Adventure Bike

CSC Motorcycles, based in Azusa, California, announced today that it is bringing in the first shipment of 250cc RX-3 Cyclone adventure touring motorcycles to...

2015 KTM 1290 Super Adventure | First Look Review

With 131 horsepower and 80 lb-ft of torque at the rear wheel, few would accuse KTM's 1190 Adventure of being down on power. But...

2014 Adventure Bike Shootout: BMW R 1200 GS Adventure, KTM 1190 Adventure, Yamaha Super Ténéré ES

Although they represent a small minority of motorcycle sales, large-displacement adventure tourers have surged in popularity recently. Buyers are drawn to their one-bike-does-it-all versatility,...

2014 Yamaha Super Ténéré ES | Road Test Review

Named after a dune-filled region of the Sahara, Yamaha’s Super Ténéré rumbled onto the adventure-touring scene for 2012. Its liquid-cooled, 1,199cc parallel twin uses...

2014 KTM 1190 Adventure Review

After years of building the most off-road-oriented of the big dualies with its 950/990 Adventure models, KTM balanced the scales by introducing the all-new...

2014 BMW R 1200 GS Adventure Review

Introduced for 2013 on the R 1200 GS, the latest version of BMW’s air/liquid-cooled boxer twin powers two updated 2014 models, the R 1200...

2015 Aprilia Caponord 1200 ABS Travel Pack – Road Test Review

Norway’s Nordkapp (North Cape) is a 1,000-foot cliff overlooking the frigid Barents Sea, reached by riding through a 4.3-mile undersea tunnel on the world’s...

2014 KTM 1190 Adventure R | Road Test Review

Since its introduction in early 2013, KTM’s 1190 Adventure has created a lot of buzz in the burgeoning adventure-touring segment. Its superbike-based, 150-horse V-twin...

2015 Aprilia Caponord 1200 ABS Travel Pack – First Ride Review

Photography by Kevin Wing Not that long ago, back when only a select few knew how to get the clock on their VCR to stop...

2014 Kawasaki KLR650 New Edition | First Ride Review

Kawasaki’s KLR650 has secured a place of honor in the pantheon of great motorcycles. Not because it’s the fastest or the most stylish or...

2014 KTM 1190 Adventure | Road Test Review

As liter-class adventure-touring bikes have been getting more and more street oriented, the KTM 990 Adventure clung to its Dakar racing roots right through...

2014 Yamaha Super Ténéré/ES and 2015 Yamaha SR400 – First Look Review

Yamaha entered the burgeoning adventure touring market in a big way in 2012 with its 1,199cc parallel-twin powered Super Ténéré, featuring standard engine modes,...

2014 Kawasaki KLR650 New Edition First Look Review

After chugging along with few changes and a distinctive tweet from its exhaust pipe for 21 years, Kawasaki's legendary KLR650 dual-sport got a major...

2014 Suzuki V-Strom 1000 ABS | First Ride Review

When Suzuki introduced the V-Strom DL1000 for 2002, the adventure touring landscape was much more barren than it is today. BMW’s big GS had...

2014 Suzuki V-Strom 1000 | First Look Review

Although word leaked out weeks ago when Suzuki Japan went live with a website for the all-new 2014 V-Strom 1000 ABS, Suzuki Motor of...

2014 BMW R 1200 GS Adventure – First Look Review

A year after BMW Motorrad unveiled the heavily revised, partially liquid-cooled R 1200 GS at the Intermot show in Cologne, Germany, the company has...

2014 BMW F 800 GS Adventure | Road Test Review

When the BMW F 800 GS was introduced for 2009, it offered the touring enduro versatility of the popular R 1200 GS but in...

2014 Suzuki V-Strom 1000 Website Up

As of a few days ago Suzuki Japan finalized the specs for the all-new 2014 V-Strom 1000 on the special website for the bike...

2013 Triumph Tiger Explorer XC | First Ride Review

When Triumph introduced its Tiger 800 and 800XC for 2011 and Tiger Explorer for 2012, the British manufacturer clearly wanted a slice of the...

2013 Ducati Multistrada 1200 S Granturismo | Road Test Review

If, as the saying goes, four wheels move the body but two wheels move the soul, then the Ducati Multistrada 1200—a snarling, sexy, technological...

2013 BMW R 1200 GS | Road Test Review

Given its status as adventure-touring’s most popular, versatile motorcycle and worldwide best-seller, we made sure to cover BMW’s new liquid-cooled R 1200 GS touring...

2014 BMW F 800 GS Adventure | First Look Review

Adventure touring’s rapidly expanding universe can be traced back to a Big Bang moment: BMW’s introduction of the R80G/S in 1980. Gelände/Strasse—Off-road/Road in German,...

Comparison Test: 2013 BMW C 650 GT vs. 2013 Honda NC700X

We aren’t normally a shiftless bunch except for an hour or two after lunch, but we recently spent the last two weeks swapping between...

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