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First Look: Kawasaki Versys Travel

Kawasaki to launch touring version of their visually-challenged parallel twin

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Posted: 4 April 2008
by Visordown News

Visordown Motorcycle News
Colour-coded panniers don't improve the looks, sadly

YOU'RE LOOKING at the first shots of Kawasaki's new Versys Travel, sent in today by a Visordown member.

The exact details of the touring version of Kawasaki's 649cc, parallel twin aren't yet known but at first glance the Travel looks like a bog standard version of the ugly duckling Versys with colour coded panniers and a splitter on top of the flyscreen to help deflect windblast away from the rider's head.

Prices and availability are yet to be confirmed. We'll keep you posted - if you're really interested.


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D-rock
Don't be so quick to look away. I ride a Ducati Multistrada -- also a challenging, all purpose bike -- and adore it. But there are times when I think a smaller motor would be nice, a softer clutch would do well in the city, and a generally easier bike to ride might be nice to just fire up and pop down to the movie rather than waiting for the Desmo L Twin to sputter to life. The Versys is clearly a Multistrada wannabe, but the Japanese often do an excellent job at copying, and softening, European models. This one could be a winner, especially since Ducati killed the 620cc version of the Multistrada and -- for reasons I can't imagine -- decided we needed even more power in the form of a 1100 cc engine, (or so) up from 992.

Posted: 15/05/2008 at 23:28

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