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Stories tagged "Touring" from the LatestNewBike magazine.
Everyone wants a clean winner in the bagger wars, but ride these two back to back and every strength comes paired with a real, unglamorous weakness — liquid-cooled muscle against air-cooled soul, a frame-mounted fairing against a fork-mounted one, and two very different ideas of what a thousand-mile day should feel like.
Elena Rossi · Jun 21, 2026
Both will swallow a continent, but a heavyweight tourer and an adventure-sport bike solve the problem of "big motorcycle" in almost opposite ways — here is how to pick the right philosophy, not just the right spec sheet.
Diego Marroquín · Jun 19, 2026
Lighter, punchier and cleverer than the icon it replaces, the R 1300 GS wraps a 145 hp boxer, radar cruise and adaptive ride height into the most complete globe-crosser BMW has ever built.
Diego Marroquín · May 31, 2026
Baggers don't ride, brake or carry weight like anything else on two wheels, and their tyres shouldn't be chosen like anything else's either. Here's what actually changes once you're hauling two people and full luggage on a Road Glide or Challenger-style tourer.
Sam Whitlock · May 14, 2026
Corrugations, forty-degree heat and three hundred kilometres between fuel stops have a habit of separating adventure bikes that are actually built for the job from ones merely dressed for it — and after testing most of the current crop out here, I have strong opinions about which is which.
Diego Marroquín · May 10, 2026
Rally-bred and famously dependable, Honda's Africa Twin pairs a torquey 1084 cc twin with genuine off-road ability and an optional DCT gearbox, making it the thinking overlander's long-haul companion.
Diego Marroquín · Apr 25, 2026
The Multistrada V4 performs an improbable magic trick: a 170 hp Granturismo V4 with radar cruise, semi-active suspension and 60,000 km valve intervals that tours in luxury yet still hunts apexes with glee.
Diego Marroquín · Mar 29, 2026
From continent-crushing flagships to featherweight trail bikes, the adventure class has never been broader — this guide helps you match capacity, weight and budget to the roads you will genuinely ride.
Diego Marroquín · Dec 11, 2025
Generic chain guides are written for damp, temperate roads — not <strong>45°C bitumen</strong>, bulldust corrugations and six hundred kilometres between towns. Here is how heat, dust and distance rewrite the maintenance schedule for Australian conditions.
Sam Whitlock · Oct 21, 2025
Range anxiety is the reflex objection to every electric motorcycle, but a week aboard a Zero SR/F suggests the fear says far more about our petrol-era habits than about the bikes themselves.
Priya Anand · Sep 3, 2025
