A nominal adventure bike, the 2017 Honda VFR1200X is more of a fully upright sport-touring machine that offers plenty of versatility. The big V4 motor is the heart of the 1200X, and it takes you wherever you want to go, pretty much as fast as you’d like to go.While the standard-shift version is spectacular, the fully and semi-automatic DCT is the way you want to shift gears. Just twist the throttle and go, while you enjoy the fantastic handling and superb suspension.
Combined ABS braking and adjustable traction control add both performance and convenience to the tremendous package.2017 Honda VFR1200X
Hello everyone and welcome once again to Motos and Friends, the weekly podcast brought to you by Ultimate Motorcycling. My name is Arthur Coldwells.
Motos and Friends is brought to you by Yamaha. You can check out the amazing YZF-R7 at your local Yamaha dealer, or of course at YamahaMotorsports.com. The YZF-R7 is an amazing supersport machine that is comfortable too!
In this week’s first segment, Editor Don Williams takes the smallest BMW ADV bike on an urban adventure in Los Angeles. The BMW G 310 GS is a full size motorcycle with a modest engine, so of course we wonder if it is a little too underpowered and might struggle. Don put it through its paces and gives us his take.
In the second segment, Neale Bayly and Kiran Ridley have returned from the Ukraine to Paris where Kiran is based.
Kiran is an award winning photojournalist, and as an accomplished documentarian, he has covered stories as diverse as drug smuggling around the Mexican border, to the devastation of the Australian Bush Fires, to the tragedy of the Mediterranean migration crisis. Neale and Kiran reminisce about their motorcycle adventure in the Ukraine, and their observations and experiences with the incredibly resilient people of Ukraine, who have been put through such brutal hardship.
