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2 months ago | 
cycleworld.com | Blake Conner |Kevin Cameron
When Ducati introduced the midsize Multistrada 950 back in 2017, it was a move to fill a gap in its touring lineup with a more affordable and approachable platform. It was a logical decision on many levels, and as the years have ticked by, the name morphed into the Multistrada V2 for the 2022 model year.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
cycleworld.com | Blake Conner
Despite its recent financial troubles, KTM continues to introduce exciting new models across a wide range of categories. The latest bike to be announced is the 2025 KTM 390 SMC R. This new model joins the other two bikes in the company’s Supermoto lineup, the closed-course competition-only 450 SMR and the street-oriented 690 SMC R.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
cycleworld.com | Blake Conner
For those who burn through tires like crazy and are handy in the garage, a home tire-changing setup should be a serious consideration. Tires are expensive enough on their own, but then add on the dealer’s labor and it can typically tack on another $200 to the bill. We have an excellent professional hydraulic tire-changing machine in the Cycle World shop in California, but that does little good all the way out here at my home office in Colorado.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
cycleworld.com | Blake Conner
Although the sportbike market has dipped considerably since its heydays of the late 1980s through early 2000s, it is making a comeback. It could be argued that the formulas that drove market success were also its undoing for a while there. For decades the very rules that defined production racing around the world also hemmed in the type of motorcycles that the manufacturers were building.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
cycleworld.com | Blake Conner
Two additional updated models have just been announced by BMW for 2025, including the F 900 R roadster and the F 900 XR crossover. Both of these middleweight models are part of BMW’s parallel-twin family that utilizes the 895cc engine that also powers the F 900 GS and F 900 GS Adventure.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
cycleworld.com | Blake Conner
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
cycleworld.com | Blake Conner
Years of hard effort in the World Superbike Championship have finally come to fruition for BMW in 2024, with ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team rider Toprak Razgatlıoğlu securing the rider’s title in style. With one of the most dominant seasons we’ve seen in a while, Razgatlıoğlu ended the year with 18 victories and 27 podiums, and that’s after he had to sit out two rounds midway through the season due to injury. Over the 12-event season he also secured six pole positions and 13 fastest race laps.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
cycleworld.com | Blake Conner
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
cycleworld.com | Blake Conner
One of the most popular, affordable, and capable adventure bikes on the market, Yamaha’s Ténéré 700 has just received a whole ton of upgrades and changes for 2025. Although it has been one of the most versatile machines in the middleweight ADV class, it was starting to fall behind the competition in terms of features, particularly with the electronics and rider aids.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
cycleworld.com | Blake Conner
What makes a great adventure bike? Well, that’s about as loaded a question as there is in motorcycling. The class is so complex these days that there is literally a bike for every type of riding and rider. But there are a bunch of bikes that can just about do it all—ones that walk down the middle of the road. These bikes that aren’t class leaders off road or on, but that are competent just about anywhere. The Honda Africa Twin has proven to be one of those machines.
