The area had recently recorded record unseasonal rains and some of the tracks were in pretty unusual shapes after big movements of subsoil and detritus. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! While the big screen can take a few seconds to get its shit together on start-up, the small screen is instantaneously awake and ready for action. It was just above freezing when I collected the Africa Twin Adventure Sports from Honda’s parking lot earlier this month, with snow on all the car windshields alongside, and I didn’t want to hang about trying to set up the bike just so. Including the top shelf Bosch six-axis IMU that equips the electronic systems with all the sensory inputs required in order to deliver one of motorcycling’s most sophisticated suite of rider aids. I had no bluetooth system fitted to my Shoei adventure helmet so never got to use the CarPlay system during my time with the Africa Twin. Getting lost to find peace and perspective. More than once both himself and his Daryl Beattie Adventure Tours lead rider, Peter ‘Budda’ Luczkowski, have forgot to pull in the clutch when rolling to a stop on a conventional bike and almost gone down at walking pace as they spend so much time on the DCT bikes. While that quickly dusts up, the main colour screen is seemingly impervious to dust due to some sorcery in its chemical composition that somehow repels airborne particles. It … I also needed to turn down the grip heaters, which became too hot for comfort, even at zero degrees through thick leather riding mittens. I skimmed over a lot of other stuff before I gave up. The G mode for a more direct throttle feel via a quicker lock-up on the clutch packs is retained from the previous model and holds the lower gears much longer again. (Can any bike be over-powered? The bike gets to 200 km/h quick enough. These settings are for both ends of the bike and are further customisable through 24-steps in each mode. Honda spent a lot of time trimming where they could to make climbing aboard the bike a less dramatic experience for most folk. It really is a case of gripping the bike with your knees, leaning back and trying to sail across the sand, keeping the front light and the rear wheel driving, and the poo inside your bottom. Honda says the 2020 Honda Africa Twin is 6 pounds lighter than the 2019 model and it features a shorter, fixed windscreen and a 5-gallon fuel tank. Claimed power is an even 100 horses in the old scale with 105 Nm of torque peaking at 6250 rpm. There are some big and very obvious differences: for a start, the parallel-twin engine is punched out to 1,084 cc, which Honda says increases the peak power by 7 per cent and the peak torque by 6 per cent. I chose the top of the range machine complete with DCT, just as I did during the New Zealand launch of the first model a few short years ago. There are also two other ride modes that you can pre-set yourself just the way you like it. LCD Meter, TFT 6.5inch touch panel multi information display, Daytime running lights, Bluetooth audio and Apple Carplay, USB socket, auto turn signal cancel, cruise control, emergency stop signal, IMU, HSTC and wheelie control), 2330 mm x 960 mm x 1560 mm (1620 mm with screen in uppermost position), 850/870 mm (low seat option 825 mm, high seat option 895 mm), Showa 45mm cartridge-type inverted telescopic fork with dial-style preload adjuster and damping adjustment, 204 mm stroke /, EERA – Showa Telescopic inverted fork with an inner tube diameter of 45 mm, and Showa EERA with compression and rebound damping adjustments, 204 mm stroke, Monoblock aluminium swing arm with Pro-Link with Showa gas-charged damper, hydraulic dial-style preload adjuster and rebound damping adjustments, 220 mm rear wheel travel. Its pretty safe to say though that Honda has that base well covered with radial four-piston Nissin calipers clamping 310 mm disc rotors. Believe me, I looked. I can’t stress enough how important that last feature is for those that like running hard luggage such as the optional aluminium panniers. The DCT really is a great thing, and is going to make even more sense for open road touring or city commuting. Off-road mode also increases the damping under greater pressure, such as landing from a jump, so the shocks firm more quickly as they’re compressed. That never happens. So, if you pay Ontario sales taxes, for example, the most basic bike will cost you almost $18,000 out the door, and the Adventure Sports DCT will cost you just over $20,300 out the door. So this month, vowing not to be beaten, I found the road again with the Africa Twin. Overall the cockpit is a pleasant place to spend time. That’s a lot of money, but it’s in line with the KTM Super Adventure R and S, and it’s comfortably below BMW and Ducati territory. Good chains have long service lives these days and after initial break-in are very unlikely to require adjustments between rear tyre replacements. It’s stability and ability to keep tracking true, even when the rider had started to lose his composure, simply amazed me time and time again. Then, when the weather was so uncommonly warm, I returned the bike to Honda, taking the long route through the Ganaraska Forest as I’d done with the previous generation motorcycle. The road got worse and worse, but I’d gone too far to turn back, even when I met the watering truck that was spraying the surface into mush to keep down the dust. There’s more, of course. I also repeated the testing approach I used on the original bike, that is, let the bike’s electronics do their magic, while I just ride the thing. You've heard everyone else. Tweak the response up to Sport, which has three further sub-levels of aggression, of which I preferred the middle setting, and the down-shifts are much more urgent, the more brake pressure you use the quicker the system will shuffle down the gears. 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A major benefit with all electronic suspenders is the aforementioned ease of tuning that really comes into its own when touring. This is also no doubt why Honda has not endowed the bike with the massive power numbers boasted. Of course, it’s also more expensive. This is what Mark and Dustin really thought about the Toronto Motorcycle Show. Daryl has used previous generations of the DCT Africa Twin exclusively for many desert crossings in sand that most of us would struggle to ride a proper dirt-bike in, and he and his crew are now converts to the DCT bikes. This time, the sand was still a challenge, but I pressed though to the other side and emerged victorious a second time. A fair bit more expensive. With the amount of sand work we were in for, the standard rubber had been replaced by more serious Michelin Anakee Wild. The New 2020 CRF1100L Africa Twin is a sly beast. Motojourno - Founder of MCNews.com.au - Australia's leading resource for motorcycle news, reviews and race coverage for over 20 years. The damping response is controlled on the fly every 15 milliseconds (0.015s) on information derived from suspension stroke sensors along with vehicle speed and a myriad of other information such as throttle position and brake pressure etc.

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