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Junior ADVENTURE We took five of the current entry lever adventure models and undertook a 300km day ride through the bush, freeways and mountain passes to see if they cut it as South African explorers…. 50 DIRT & TRAIL MAGAZINE JULY 2018
BIG TEST JUNIOR ADVENTURE RIDE For this event, we roped in the talents of a motley crew of riders. Although all of them are experienced motorcyclists, most of these guys and girls had not ridden any of these bikes, so it was a completely fresh perspective. Our brief to them was – go out, have fun, swap between the bikes all day and tell us what you think. That simple. We did the scientific part of working a route that was a perfect mixup, shaking up the bikes, taking photo’s and working out fuel consumption figures. Because we have tested these bikes all individually, we abstained from actually riding the bikes on this one – and left it up to the team to decide what they did and didn’t like. The bikes: 5 junior bikes were roped in. In the 250cc class, we had Yamaha’s XT250, Honda’s 250 Rally and Suzuki’s new 250 V-Strom. In the (Slightly) bigger class, we roped in the services of Kawasaki’s 300 Versys X and BMW’s GS310. Extras on the bikes included spots, crash DIRT & TRAIL MAGAZINE JULY 2018 51
Page 1 and 2: JULY 2018 WORLD LAUNCH: 2019 KTM MO
Page 3 and 4: Photo Credit: Doc Weedon Blake Bagg
Page 5 and 6: Piston and Gasket Sets Cranks, Conr
Page 7: Cable-tying my soles back on in Swa
Page 10 and 11: New Riding shirts at DMD: Oxford is
Page 12: The Rumble and the Grumble: Dirtbik
Page 15 and 16: 50 million Euro’s - Don’t quote
Page 17 and 18: GET MORE DIRT IN YOUR LIFE NOW AT P
Page 19 and 20: Introducing the ALL NEW •Advanced
Page 21 and 22: The air boxes have been completely
Page 23 and 24: The 2019 four strokes use the KTMde
Page 25 and 26: The 450 SXF: Moving the goalposts.
Page 27 and 28: Triumph SA has made quite a splash
Page 29 and 30: TRIUMPH JOHANNESBURG READY TO ROLL
Page 31 and 32: exhaust and gearing mods. Both of o
Page 34 and 35: to grow the event into an annual sh
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Page 38 and 39: The SA contingent. Shane Nel, ryan
Page 40: Day 4 - 30 kilometres of 100 percen
Page 43 and 44: Spain’s Pol Tarres (Husqvarna) to
Page 45 and 46: Galfer Brakes Stopping motorcycles
Page 47 and 48: National Motorcross Proudly Brought
Page 49: National Motorcross Proudly Brought
Page 54 and 55: 5 gleaming bikes - just waiting for
Page 56 and 57: As the sun set, it got colder and c
Page 58 and 59: The bikes: Some interesting facts
Page 60: non-adjustable clutch lever is stra
Page 63 and 64: Helena 083 382 0950
Page 66: Kawasaki Verys 300X Price R75500.00
Page 69 and 70: The BMW GS310 Price R80400.00 Singl
Page 72 and 73: Honda’s XL250 Rally. Price: R8499
Page 74 and 75: MAKE IT A DOU IT’S NEVER HAPPENED
Page 76 and 77: How the bug bit… This was a dream
Page 78: Day 2 (Scouting) 280 km Started ear
Page 81 and 82: Day 4 (Scouting) 270km: This riding
Page 83 and 84: PERFORMANCE AND DURABILITY DURABILI
Page 85 and 86: COLOUR CHAINS AVAILABLE RK Chains a
Page 87 and 88: Get Lost! That’s the reply when w
Page 89 and 90: JHB TO THE BAY Q4Q 2018 KICKS OFF F
Page 91 and 92: Exploring made easy 200cc’s of pu
Page 93: WE NEED A HOME Orphaned baboons Lol
Page 96 and 97: WE BUY AND SELL GOOD CONDITION SECO
Page 98 and 99: The New Linhai 550 T-BOSS Linhai is
Page 100: METAL HEART CARBON SOUL Worlds firs

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