Like what was Honda thinking , sticking its Dual Clutch Transmission ( DCT ) in this pretty girl ’ s guts ? I actually said : “ What the utter ( swear word ) is ( swear word ) going on here ?” How was this gonna work ? I thought , visualising myself hammering down some treacherous scree-strewn cliff and reaching for a clutch-lever that was not there . Yeah , except that scree-strewn cliff is all in my aspirational imagination . It ’ s like when I see one
of them Dakar gods skating along the rocky desert at 160km / h and think to myself “ Hell , I could do that !” Except I can ’ t . And neither can you . And the vast majority of people who buy Adventure bikes certainly can ’ t do it either . You wanna do hard-core single-track stuff , you ’ re going to be buying something else . You ’ re definitely not going to be buying what we have come to call “ Adventure ” bikes .
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