Adventure-Touring Comparison – The Asphalt Adventurers Ducati Multistrada S Touring vs. Moto Guzzi Stelvio 1200 NTX vs. Triumph Tiger Explorer vs. Yamaha Super Ténéré

CW Comparison: Asphalt Adventurers

Do these motorcycles offer false promise? Are they merely the SUVs of motorcycling with bold names and no balls? “Ténéré” is a remote part of the Sahara Desert, while “Explorer” implies nomadic intent, “Multistrada” says “I can do it all” and “Stelvio” is perhaps the greatest twisty road on Earth. Those are big statements from [...]

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2012 Triumph Tiger Explorer – First Ride A British bike with a German accent.

2012 Triumph Tiger Explorer - First Ride

Triumph had only one target for its new Tiger Explorer, explains product manager Simon Warburton: the BMW R1200GS. The big GS Boxer, the most successful motorcycle in the last two-and-a-half decades, sells so well it represents a very substantial chunk of BMW’s production and has been the machine that both created and continues to define [...]

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2012 Triumphs Tiger Explorer, Speed Triple R and Steve McQueen Bonneville.

2012 Triumph Tiger Explorer at EICMA 2011

It’s a fun war to be involved in these days, fought not with bombs and bullets but with charts and statistics. In the morning, BMW’s Hendrik von Kuenheim went on about how the company was up 12.3 percent in 2010, is set to have an even better ’11 and aiming for an all-time high in [...]

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