Ultimate Adventure Bike

WELCOME TO THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE

‘Adventure bike’ is a fairly loose term. In some regards, any bike you’re riding on an adventure is by definition an adventure bike. That then could be an R 1200 GS Adventure with brushed aluminium panniers, or a CT110 postie bike with a milk crate on the back. It also comes down to your own definition of an adventure. My next-door neighbour is so locked to his own home that when he mows the lawn out to his front gate, he sends a postcard back. That’s as far as he’s ever been interested in travelling. That’s his adventure.

An adventure bike is expected to perform so many separate functions in so many varied circumstances that it damn near defies

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