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For a long time now, adventure riders have been clamouring for a bike that is great in the dirt - light and agile - but also capable of covering many miles on the Tarmac. Several manufacturers have tried to pin the tail on the donkey, perhaps CCM with their GP450 got the closest, but the race-derived engine let that bike down on the road and owners complained of it being a swine to work on from a packaging point of view. Honda's CRF450L was an opportunity missed, whilst KTM's 690 and its sibling the Husqvarna 701 probably come closest to ticking all the boxes, but not without a lot of money spent post-purchase to make them more suitable for covering the

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