THEY SAY: “Best in class.”
WE SAY: “We wouldn’t want anything else.”
Especially with the swelling tide of adventure touring ( ADV) models to be had, there have been plenty of stories written about the off-road capability of streetbikes. But realize, please, that when we journalists rave and gawk at the relative ease with which a 500- or 600-pound behemoth plods down a two-track road, it’s all relative. They are amazing feats of engineering, it’s true, but genuine dirt bikes they are not, and nothing makes that more evident than riding an actual off-road machine.
We like to think we’re all-arounders here at MC, in that we like two-wheeled transport in every shape and size, and to do that it pays to stay abreast of the latest and greatest. For a quick refresher on the state of the dual-sport art we swung a leg over the 2016 model of KTM’s 350 EXC-F and wandered off into the Sierra Nevada Mountains just south of Yosemite National Park. Juicy EXC country, if you know where to look.
