Paddy Minne and I, for example, rode two Enfield Bullets back from India to the UK in 1998 for my book Way to Go, and their antiquated 500cc single-cylinder engines just about managed 27bhp on a good day.
And my mate Nathan Millward made it all the way from Sydney to London on a 110cc postie bike called Dorothy for his excellent book The Long Ride Home.
So I always walk up to small capacity bikes with a pleasant tingle of anticipation that they’ll punch above their weight.
Being an adventure version with longer travel suspension and a 19in front wheel, the KTM Adventure is taller than the 390 Duke it’s based on, but for the few riders in the world under 6ft 6in, there’s a low seat option.
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