…very hard on my AT bike, regardless of if it’s a 650 or a 1200. The KLR is a bike that I won’t feel bad about hammering and I can afford to keep doing it. 2012 BMW G650GS Sertao Photo Gallery 2012 Kawasaki KLR650 Photo Gallery 2012 Suzuki V-Strom 650 ABS Photos Touring Motorcycle News More Touring Motorcycle…

…Frank’s first ride take on its revitalized smaller sibling - MCUSA Ed Our man Melling got first dibs on Suzuki's 2012 V-Strom 650 - the wee-strom a significant redesign of its predecessor. If ever Suzuki had a difficult job to do in convincing a potential customer, it would be selling the DL650 to me. First…

2008 Suzuki DR650SE The Challenger Suzuki's DR650 turned out to be a competent dirt machine. We would rather spend time riding trails on the 'Zook than pounding pavement - the opposite of the Kawasaki. Suzuki makes the extremely popular dirt-biased DR-Z400 and the street-savvy 650 V-Strom. The DR650SE…

…like it was plucked from the set of Road Warrior. Suzuki's concept for the DL line was to create a ""Sport Enduro Tourer,"" and the V-Strom 650 gets top marks for living up to the monicker. In combining the SV650 motor with the DL1000 chassis, Suzuki has built its parts bin special into a bike that defines…

…this could be a middleweight adventure touring motorcycle. It would seem logical that Suzuki will play off of the success of the street-biased V-Strom and build a bike modeled after the V-Strom 1000 or V-Strom 650 , possibly meeting somewhere in the middle with an all-new new challenger for the venerable…

The 2012 Suzuki V-Strom gets revised intake valves and cam profiles, but its 645cc engine remains mostly unchanged. The orchestrated teases and leaks are over… at least for Suzuki ’s “New Middle-Class” adventure-touring rig. Surprise, surprise, it’s the new 2012 V-Strom 650 ABS. Following the…

" Suzuki revamped its popular V-Strom 650 for 2012 and it represents the street-biased side of the 2012 650 Adventure Touring Shootout. A muscular V-Twin sets the stage for the Wee-Strom which uses its extra power to its advantage. Total displacement is only 645cc but the additional cylinder from the…

…enough in just the right places to make it an effective adventure touring bike. All of our riders noted the MSRP as an incredible value. By leaving the 650 unchanged year after year, Kawasaki is able to make profit and can keep them riding off dealership floors at an attractive purchasing point. Aside from…

…be on tighter sections, not to mention the slick state of the road, I traded out the CBF sport-tourer for another faithful dual-sport, the Suzuki V-Strom 650. As opposed to the Tourance shod Tnr, theSuzuki rolledon Metzeler's Tourance EXP tire. Although the Tourance and Tourance EXP are similar, the…

…amenable model for such riders when we tested it head-to-head against the Suzuki SV650 last year, and this new design figures to carry on the user-friendly habits of its Ninja forebear while challenging Suzuki's V-Strom 650 for market share in the entry-level Adventure Touring class. Actually, the new…