Ultimate Adventure Bike

STROM LIFE

Why is it that so often the least fashionable bikes are the really good ones? The DR-Z400. The KLR650. The 200EXC and the WR250R. These aren’t at the top of too many must-have lists but they’re all great bikes.

There was a time when I looked at the V-Strom as a bike that a retired shoemaker would buy to ride from a cheese factory tour to the annual gathering of the Royal Rare Fungus Society. Some years ago when I had the

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