THERE seems to be no stemming the tide of adventure bikes and these days there are so many variations on the theme that we’re splitting our top 10 recommendations into several separate lists.
We’ve already selected our choices of 1000cc-and-over adventure machines, but the choice of slightly smaller alternatives is getting ever wider too.
No doubt every reader will have their own take on what does or doesn’t fit the category, but we’re taking a fairly wide view here – it seems that the need for an ‘adventure’ bike to have off-road ability is falling by the wayside; Honda’s Crossrunner, for instance, is officially part of that market (at least according to Honda) but is really just a VFR800 in drag, and even some of the more rugged-looking adventure machines are really not seriously intended to go away from the tarmac.