I know it's going to be difficult for traditional motorcyclists - especially young, traditional motorcyclists - to believe this, but there's more to motorcycling than speed. Indeed, with the onslaught of ever more hyper-powered superbikes, speed is largely becoming irrelevant. What use are 175 horses if you're stuck in traffic? How many times will you actually go 300 kilometres an hour when the speed limit is an increasingly and stringently regulated 100 or 110 km/h? And what use are third-gear power wheelies when popping the front wheel is likely to buy you a one-week ban for "stunting"? READ ON

The surprise with the Crosstourer is two-fold: first that the 1200 V4 powertrain works so well in an adventure bike package (it already seems so familiar and ‘right’ to me it seems like it’s been around for years) and second that it genuinely brings a new and tempting dimension – namely V4 performance and sophisticated automatic transmission – to t... Read more...

The surprise with the Crosstourer is two-fold: first that the 1200 V4 powertrain works so well in an adventure bike package (it already seems so familiar and ‘right’ to me it seems like it’s been around for years) and second that it genuinely brings a new and tempting dimension – namely V4 performance and sophisticated automatic transmission – to t... Read more...