It’s a great excuse for reminiscing when we run these Spotlight editorials focusing on a landmark machine from the big wide world of adventure bike riding. We get to turn the time machine back and see what was happening in a specific year, and this time around it’s 1996.
But yikes, the news was not all good back then: Martin Bryant shot up historic Port Arthur in Tasmania and killed 35 poor innocent folk, while Mad Cow Disease gripped the UK and Europe and we meat lovers had real concerns over where our next filet mignon might come from.
They weren’t all bad news days, however. For in the world of what would prove to be long-serving and ultimately legendary dirtbikes, 1996 marked the arrival of the Suzuki DR650SE, which was a revamped model
