V-STROM BIG WHEEL
Former-editor Jon Bentman (‘ JB ’) has plenty of ‘ previous ’ with V-Stroms , having beaten the UK trails blue with V-Strom long termers of old ( 650XT , 1000 , 1050XT ), so when Suzuki called to ask if he ’ d like to test its latest and most off-road biased V-Strom yet , the DL1050DE *, he couldn ’ t help himself . They said Greece , but didn ’ t mention the snow ...
*: In the rest of the world , even Oz , this new V-Strom is called the DE , here in NZ it ’ s called the RJ , while the road-biased variant is the RR . We don ’ t know why .