MANUFACTURER’S SPECS
With the horsepower race going on, it’s pretty hard for an ordinary — read: rational — adventure bike to get any love these days. Ducati’s top-of-theline is a 170-plus horsepower V4. KTM’s 1290 boasts almost as much power except from two fewer cylinders. Even Harley’s Pan America is a powerhouse. Hell, BMW’s GS is in the horsepower race. And what’s this I hear about Honda patenting a supercharger for its woefully-powered Africa Twin so that it can keep up with the hyper-horsepowered Joneses? What’s a lowly 118-horsepower Kawasaki Versys to do? Especially when Team Green — they of the screaming two-stroke triples, hypersonic ZZR1400s and supercharged H2s — is, itself, world-renowned for outrageous power.