ISLAND ADVENTURES
The Canary Islands don’t sound like the most obvious place for an adventure tour. The new Kawasaki Versys 1000 SE is not really an adventure bike in the dirt-riding, back-to-basics kind of sense, either. So it took me a little while to get my head around the concept of the mini-adventure that Kawasaki had arranged on the islands of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura for the launch of the new Versys 1000 SE.
The more I thought about it, the more it made sense. As much as many of us like the idea of crossing deserts and rainforests on our bikes, in reality that’s something that only a small minority of bikers do. The rest of us consider the financial and physical damage that taking an expensive bike to an unknown territory might do, and we head out on good old Tarmac instead. The thing is, we can still have a great adventure and enjoy the riding without roughing it, and safe in the knowledge that we don’t have to pick rattlesnakes from the bike’s exhaust manifold or go to the toilet with a spade. Black-top roads and B&Bs are just fine, thank you very much.
The new Versys is a bike built for road-based fun and adventures. So having the mini-adventure in a holiday
