Category : Adventure Bikes

Suspension and touring comfort upgrades sweeten the top-tier adventure tourer. If you’ve eagerly been waiting for Husqvarna to launch the hotly anticipated Norden 901 Expedition, we’ve got good news for you. On March 1, 2023, Husqvarna officially pulled the covers off its newest Norden 901 variant—and it’s packed with plenty of up-spec goodness to enhance its adventure touring capabilities. Let’s take a look.

KTM’s top-dog, off-road-ready adventure bike, the 1290 Super Adventure R, gets a range of updates for 2022, including engine/chassis tweaks, updated WP XPLOR suspension, Bridgestone AX41 tires, rally-inspired bodywork, and more.⁠

BMW has long been committed to designing and building motorcycles for travel, and the all-new 2022 BMW R 18 Transcontinental continues that tradition in a new segment for the German brand. BMW’s current lineup is filled with sport-tourers, adventure tourers, luxury tourers, and even a bagger, but all occupy the modern, performance-oriented end of the spectrum. Many are popular and sell in respectable quantities each year, especially on a global scale.

Middleweight adventure bikes are hot right now, and Ducati is the latest manufacturer to embrace the trend. Powered by a 110-horsepower version of the 937cc Testastretta L-Twin from the Multistrada V2 in a 492-pound package, the rally-styled 2022 Ducati DesertX is designed for aggressive off-road riding.

When the covers were pulled off the 2022 Triumph Tiger Sport 660, the first question that came to mind was: Why? In an increasingly cluttered adventure bike landscape, why introduce a model without off-road capability? Why challenge the category-defining Kawasaki Versys 650? Just two months after posing those questions, Triumph marque invited us to find out firsthand at the Tiger Sport 660’s global launch in Portugal.

Adventure riders have been eagerly awaiting the Norden 901’s arrival since Husqvarna unveiled the concept at EICMA 2019. After an extensive development period, the Swedish marque finally blazes a trail into the middleweight ADV field with the 2022 Norden 901.

Just a month after KTM announced their revamped 1290 Super Adventure S, with its next-generation electronics, reworked bodywork and optimized chassis, the Austrian manufacturer has dropped the cover on their new off-road focused flagship model — the 1290 Super Adventure R.