Adventure Bikes

KTM: How 2025 is shaping up

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Mark Lancaster

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10th March 2025

Alan Dowds provides the round-up… KTM 390 Adventure The trend for ever-bigger adventure bikes has us scratching our heads sometimes. Okay, if you’re going on a month-long jaunt across Europe two-up with luggage for four strapped on, a 150-200bhp, 250kg tourer-on-stilts makes a lot of sense. But if you actually want to do any off-road…
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ROAD to recovery

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Mark Lancaster

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3rd March 2025

When life is tough, biking can be the silver lining that helps you get through it all. When Samantha Brooman married her childhood sweetheart, Mike, the closest she thought she’d get to ride a motorcycle was to be a pillion on the occasional ride. What she had in mind was raising a family. But life…
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KIT: TCX Infinity boot

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Mark Lancaster

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26th February 2025

A mid-height touring boot, with extensive comfort and protection technology, the Infinity boots are fully waterproof and use a smart reel-type lacing system with adjustable Velcro fastening flap for the perfect fit. There’s a special Ortholite footbed and Groundtrax rubber sole for good traction when walking off the bike. They give good protection, too, with…
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ADVENTURE at a snip!

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Mark Lancaster

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24th February 2025

An all-singing, fully equipped adventure bike for a smidge over nine grand? There’s got to be a catch, surely? Dave Manning tells us what we need to know. Photos from Too Fast Media Having ridden the Voge DS900X for a day, I have the feeling that the only catch that its bargain price can bring…
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A DAY in the dirt

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Mark Lancaster

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21st February 2025

Can you teach an old dog new tricks? Well, the answer’s yes as far as John McAvoy is concerned, after his recent roll around in the mud on some enduro bikes… Since the very beginning of my time as a motorcyclist way back in the mid-80s I’ve only every ridden on the road or track,…
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DUCATI: Multistrada V2

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Mark Lancaster

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3rd February 2025

Insight from Alan Dowds… We raised an eyebrow when Ducati released the details of its next-generation V-twin motor a couple of months back. Okay, the purist in us appreciated the light weight, and a reset of the mad power escalator for what is, after all, a middleweight powerplant. But dropping the desmodromic valves, like shelving…
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ROYAL ENFIELD: Bear 650

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Mark Lancaster

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18th January 2025

Named after the Big Bear run desert race, which Royal Enfield won back in 1960 with 16-year-old racer Eddie Mulder, the Bear 650 is a softish street scrambler, based on the Interceptor 650. The Bear uses the same air-cooled 47bhp 650 twin as the firm’s other classically styled upper middleweight machines, but with a scrambler…
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BMW: Concept & updates

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Mark Lancaster

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6th January 2025

BMW’s ‘F’ range has sometimes been overlooked in the past, which is a shame. The Bavarian bike-mongers was ploughing a lonely furrow in the parallel-twin world nearly 20 years ago with the original F800 models, and now everyone’s in on (arguably) the dullest of the two-cylinder layouts. It must be fuming. But not too much,…
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SUZUKI: DR-Z4S/M

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Mark Lancaster

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30th December 2024

Alan Dowds reports… There were plenty of famous guests wandering around Birmingham NEC at Motorcycle Live last month, and we half expected to see Marty McFly and Doc Brown on the Suzuki stand. Because it was back to the future for the Japanese brand, which unveiled the new DR-Z4S and SM at the show. The…
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ADVENTURE! The Sidecar Guys

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Mark Lancaster

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19th December 2024

Bob Pickett reports… From 2017 to 2019, Matt Bishop and Reece Gilkes (known as ‘The Sidecar Guys’) circumnavigated the globe on a Honda SH300i scooter with a specially-built sidecar – setting a Guinness World Record in the process – with two main aims: to show the world is filled with good people and to highlight…
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