
Hello from the road, dear readers. I'm out in Moab, Utah for the next few days, testing the Honda Africa Twin CRF1000L adventure-touring motorcycle. We have a solid couple of days riding ahead of us, with Tuesday being an on-road day, and Wednesday seeing our feet get dirty with some off-road...
When the KTM 1290 Super Duke R concept was first shown at EICMA in 2012, we couldn't believe our eyes. At the time, it seemed so over the top, almost absurd. But now, after having lived with a Super Duke R for more than a year—and also having logged serious miles on two versions of the 1190...
After leaking twice yesterday, Honda has officially dropped details and photos on its highly anticipated adventure-tourer, the 2016 Honda Africa Twin. A continuation of the legacy by the same name, the new Honda Africa Twin is an off-road focused machine that will go head-to-head with the big...
Honda had been teasing us with a six episode series of videos about the new 2016 Honda CRF1000L Africa Twin in the past few months. Finally, Honda have made it official and shared the technical details in their recent press release. The 2016 model year Honda CRF1000L Africa Twin has been...
After Honda first released heavily cropped and vignetted photos of the 2016 Honda Africa Twin, we have been wanting to know more about the 1,000cc ADV bike. It helps that a video leaked of the Africa Twin out playing in the dirt, but of course we know that the CRF1000L (as Honda designates it)...
The Africa Twin's surprisingly dirt-worthy performance, its fairly light weight, simplicity and relatively economical $13,299 MSRP (for the manual 6-speed model) have made it a sales success. Honda seems to have remembered what a lot of other OEMs have forgotten, namely that complexity and...
They say a supertanker takes miles to turn and even longer to stop. Well, that's just about how quickly Honda has steered toward the liter-adventure bike ranks. Thirteen years after the V-Strom 1000 debuted and 28 years after BMW launched the R100GS, Big Red has finally joined the party with the...