Adventure tourers are the most versatile motorcycles you can buy. They can carry one or two people in comfort all day and yet can be faster up a winding road than many a sportsbike, happily kicking up dust if the surface gets loose.
These bikes on the market aren't the hard-core adventure bikes that handle like oversized dirtbikes in the desert; rather, they're machines that are aimed at touring across roads and tracks marked on maps. Where hard-core adventure tourers take as little weight as possible to keep the handling of their bike as close to unloaded as possible, these are bikes designed to take everything you need for the long haul.
Just a few years ago there was a lot of cross-over from the hard-core adventure machines to the adventure tourers, but less so these days. While we think Yamaha’s Ténéré 700 is a wonderful motorcycle, it doesn’t offer the all-day comfort, effortless cruising or huge luggage capacity of the Ténéré 1200 — and we’re actually disappointed Yamaha hasn’t upgraded the 1200 to keep it as competitive with its competition as we believe the company could have. We’ve been waiting on a new model for ages, but at least it’s great value.
The bikes we've chosen here are machines we can ride all
