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Remember that feeling of freedom you had on your first bike? It's this commitment that lives on with the new Tiger 1200 and 800 ranges, which are at the very top of their class, packed with innovative technology, major engine updates delivering more responsive power, fantastic sound and thrilling torque from the characterful Triple engine.

These aids help a rider to be safe , often reacting many times faster than a human brain can compute. The fact is, adventure bikes that cost $10k or more tend to be bigger and heavier, and that makes it harder to learn how to ride off-road. As a category, this type of machine has come a remarkably long way in a short period, Today's bikes are significantly more capable than those from six or seven years ago, but there's still a lot you can do to tailor the performance.

They split the difference between an endurance road bike and a cyclo-cross bike, with space for bigger tyres than an endurance bike and geometry better suited to road riding than a cyclo-cross bike. Our rental motorcycle of choice is the Kawasaki KLR 650cc dual sport, as the fleet bikes, with Triumph Tiger XCx and Triumph Explorer on special request.

60mm suspension fork smooths out the bumpy roads or trails. The SWM SuperDual is a lightweight adventure bike powered by a 600 cc, single-cylinder engine based on the old Husqvarna TE 160 enduro bike. Dual-sport motorcycles are the most practical choice in rural areas in many parts of the world, and when traveling on unpaved trails they can often be a necessity.

A big adventure bike normally weighs in 180 kg and greater (fuelled without gear). While big bikes are popular in the media, many are still riding smaller or mid-sized motorcycles. All images are of professional riders under closed road conditions. Riding small motorcycles, called piki pikis in Swahili, they were hooked on travel and never looked back.

Spend about $150-$200 on a DR Suzuki 650 and you have a great goes off road it commutes and is good for light touring which will imvlove road and has very LOW vibs for a single and will cruise all day with std gearing at 75mph without any moto adventure high seat can be factory lowered in 20mts or do it yourself -no special tools or partsneeded.

Chances are, you will get to see a lot of the motorcycle touring crowd these days on adventure bikes, from the Royal Enfield Himalayan to the hugely popular middleweight Triumph Tiger 800 and even the top-of-the-line BMW R 1200 GS Adventure And 2018 promises to be the year for adventure motorcycle launches with BMW Motorrad India already launching two middleweight bikes in the BMW F 750 GS and BMW F 850 GS And there are several more adventure bike launches for 2018 in the pipeline as well, so here's a look at the top 7 adventure bikes for 2018.

If you're looking for a good all-rounder that can tackle both woodland paths and tarmac roads, adventure road bikes are perfect. The new Tiger 800 XC and XR adventure motorcycle range represents a major update in rider technology. The terms "dual-sport" and dualie” were quickly adopted by riders and the motorcycle press.

The global motorcycle community is currently dominated by commuting motorcycles, however, the off-road motorcycle market is experiencing the fastest growth of any motorbike segment. The XPulse is a slightly bigger version of the now-discontinued 150 cc Hero Impulse, bigger only in terms of engine displacement though; the XPulse has a shorter height overall, to make it more accessible to riders of various builds and height.

Perhaps just as importantly, you also have to accept that as most adventure bikes will never go off-road, then the damage you inflict on it will devalue the bike come resale time compared to a tarmac only bike. Ah, but see the new Rally Raid off-road upgrade kit that they've just developed for the X. A rider can start on a good all-rounder and, if they want more dirt capability, move later in that direction.

Built to take on winding roads, city streets, unforgiving trails or mountainous paths, they feature characterful Triple engines, innovative technology, agile handling and distinctive contemporary styling, enabling you to experience every moment on a Triumph Tiger.