Arctic Challenge: KTM 990 Adventure vs. BMW R1200GS Adventure

Arctic Challenge: KTM 990 Adventure vs. BMW R1200GS Adventure & F800GS

Three top-notch adventure bikes, the KTM 990 Adventure BMW R1200GS Adventure and BMW F800GS, spanning the higher wavelengths of adventureâ‚¬s spectrums, light to heavy and moderately affordable to astronomical. Still, it all comes down to this, the Dempster Highway. Seven hundred and thirty-six kilometers of dirt, clay, mud, shale and gravel, itâ‚¬s the only all-season road in Canada to cross the Arctic Circle and go well beyond. Calling this North Americaâ‚¬s last adventure highway seems an under sell.
Here you encounter corrosive calcium chloride used to hold the road together, tire slashing shale, mud so slick the locals call it black grease, potholes that will swallow half a front tire, ruts left by tractor trailers that will pull you around, gas so infrequent that planning ahead is mandatory, grizzlies the size VWs, washboard as harsh as any suspension test, weather as fickle as a titan and scenery so gorgeously impressionistic it would set Monetâ‚¬s lower lip quivering. The Dempster is all the Northâ‚¬s motorcycle challenges and romance rolled up into one easily provoked and angry package. If youâ‚¬re lucky youâ‚¬ll catch it on a good day. If youâ‚¬re not, youâ‚¬re us.
So why come here?
Simple, if youâ‚¬re testing adventure bikes, you need a proper adventure. A week of homogenous weather on Californiaâ‚¬s back roads wonâ‚¬t cut it. Riding 12,000km, 20% of that being unpaved, from Vancouver to Inuvik followed by a dash through Alaska will. Itâ‚¬s not gnarly single-track, because these are the â‚¬Å“bigâ‚¬Â adventure bikes, the ones people look to when taking on the world with â‚¬Å“second star to the left, straight on till morningâ‚¬Â mindset.
So, a it's a bit of a review then.
Country USA
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2009-12-09
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2009-12-09
Format	Kindle eBook

Arctic Challenge: KTM 990 Adventure vs. BMW R1200GS Adventure & F800GS

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