Dirt and Trail Magazine 2021

Hmm good plan! What’s out there?
Well that’s easy, we have featured RAD KTM’s
Advenduro bike and TRAX MOTO’s 790 Dirt
Convert, now there’s an 890, so those two
should be fun!
RAD took the KTM 500 and included a Rally
screen, long range tank and did some gearing
to make it suitable for longer distances. A more
Hardcore Adventure for the more tech terrain,
complete with soft luggage racks.
Trax has made the KTM 890 Adventure, (note
not the R), more dirt worthy by fitting a higher
fender and fitting more aggressive tyres. The
idea is to make a lower, more aggressive
looking motorcycle that is suitable for shorter
riders.
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It’s been a while since we last rode the Moto
Guzzi V85, so a call was made to the friendly
guys at IMI and that unusual Vee twin was
collected.
Triumph has that luverly parallel twin retro 1200
Scrambler… it had to be included. Any excuse
to ride it really, it ranks amongst all of this lots
favourite!
That covers the Europeans, but what about
something Japanese?
Sean’s suggestion, the Africa Twin DCT. We all
looked like him as if he’d fallen out of a tree.
What’s so unusual about that? Well, and he’s
quite correct, the DCT is the only bike of its
kind of the market… think about it. Honda is
the only manufacturer with this system and the
only other bike on the market with this system
is the NC750.
Yamaha’s T7? Unusual? Well not so much
unusual as “new” which is what makes it
unusual. And to be fair there has been lots of
debate and discussion in this very office around
this bike since it first hit our shores, so why not.
So, a lekker roundup from a 500cc dirtbike
right up to a 1200 retro. It looks like a fun day is
brewing!