Big-Bore Adventure Motorcycle Comparison Test
Cycle News Staff | May 13, 2022
There’s never been a better time to buy a big-bore adventure motorcycle, so we got the big four together to see which dog comes out on top.

Harley-Davidson Pan America 1250 Special vs. BMW R 1250 GS Adventure vs. KTM 1290 Super Adventure R vs. Ducati Multistrada V4 S
By Rennie Scaysbrook, Jesse Ziegler, Sean Finley and Carl Christofferson
Photography by Kit Palmer
We’ve come a long way, haven’t we? Adventure motorcycles, at least in the top-tier big-bore (1200cc-plus) category, can now lay legitimate claim to being the most technologically advanced motorcycles on