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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 announced an all-new R 1200 GS ...
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2014 BMW F 800 GS Adventure Road Test
When the BMW F 800 GS was introduced for 2009, it offered the touring enduro versatility of the popular R 1200 GS but in a lighter, less expensive package, powered ...
Read More »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 at suzuki-vstrom.com/en/index.html. An extensive photo gallery, ...
Read More »2013 Triumph Tiger Explorer XC 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 rapidly growing adventure-touring market, with its ...
Read More »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 tour de force—gives my soul whiplash. ...
Read More »2013 BMW R 1200 GS Road Test
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 enduro pretty thoroughly following the introduction ...
Read More »BMW F 800 GS Adventure – First Look
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, or GS for short—has become much ...
Read More »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 two new “automatics”—BMW’s C 650 GT ...
Read More »2013 BMW F 700 GS – Road Test Review
Height-adjustable or optional low seats can drop seat height by an inch or so, but for many riders that isn’t enough, especially on dual-sport/enduro motorcycles with large-diameter front wheels and ...
Read More »2014 KTM 1190 Adventure–First Ride
Roaring out of the fourth tight, uphill corner, one of hundreds in our aggressive ascent from sea level to the lava fields surrounding 12,198-foot Mount Teide, two things dawned on ...
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