HONDA CRF1100 AFRICA TWIN ADVENTURE SPORT
Although the looks are near identical to the standard version, the bike you see here is the Adventure Sports version of the Africa Twin and, as such, it has one or two upgrades, such as the larger 24.8-litre fuel tank, and the Showa EERA electronic suspension. Although it still has the same 1084cc, 270° crank parallel twin powerplant that is so effective in the standard machine.
Like most examples of a prime adventure bike, the Africa Twin has a big chassis, in excess of 100bhp (just), a steel frame, a plethora of electronic doodahs and, in order to illustrate an ability to venture off of paved road surfaces, a wheel combination of 21” front and 18” rear that will allow the most dramatic of knobbly tyres if so desired. Those wheels, incidentally, are of a tubeless design.
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