"Adventure" bikes are about as practical and unglamorous as motorcycling gets. They're fairly ugly to look at, they're often ridden hard and put away wet, they're taken to dirty places and they have ...

Honda has launched a whole new biking genre with the VFR 800X Crossrunner. When the bike was announced a year ago, I anticipated an adventure bike – something to fit into the yawning chasm Honda ...

Introduced in 2011, the Crossrunner motorcycle marked Honda's attempt to square the circle between grungy off-road machines and the exquisitely polished garage trophies of the urban market. The latest ...

Take a VFR800, put some high-rise bars on it, add a bit more suspension travel, dress it in pseudo adventure-touring clothes and you have the new (TIC) VFR800X Crossrunner. Unlike many had hoped, the ...

A good 'all-rounder' in a bike — and by that I mean those that are perfectly capable of being really functional and adaptable steeds - are, and let’s be quite candid here, very thin on the ground, ...