Sertão is Portuguese for hinterlands or back country, particularly the arid badlands of northeastern Brazil, the sort of place the new offroad-ready G 650...
Remember the SV650? When it debuted in 1999, Suzuki’s small-fry naked bike wowed the press and public alike despite having modest power, budget components...
photography by Kevin Wing
This 2011 BMW R1200GS Adventure vs. 2012 Yamaha Super Ténéré Motorcycle Comparison was originally published in the January 2012 issue of...
photography by John Howell & Enrico Pavia
Western North Carolina, home to all-consuming kudzu vines, fertile fields full of King Cotton and roads that wind...
Dirt-aggressive and street-legal, the revamped TE dual-purpose bikes in the 2012 Husqvarna motorcycle lineup are ready to invade the U.S. All four TE models...
photography by Kevin Wing
When we first tested the V-Strom 650 in 2004, and for several years thereafter, Suzuki had the middleweight, multicylinder adventure touring...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
