Dual-Sport Motorcycles

Dual-sport motorcycles are often a compromise between off-road and on-road capability. The Dual Sport motorcycle offers riders the best of both worlds, of exploring back country trails and jeep roads and still legal for local streets and highways.

Basically, Dual-sport Motorcycles are road-legal machines offering a compromise in highway and off-road performance, durability and comfort. Since the requirements are often conflicting, the manufacturer has to choose one or the other, resulting in a great variety of bikes in this category.

Usually a dual-sport motorcycle features high ground clearance and copious suspension with minimal creature comforts. These motorcycles are highly unsuitable for long distance road travel. The features that differ from the motocross versions are the silencers, the flywheel weights and the presence of features necessary for highway use.

These motorcycles are also suitable for adventure touring as these bikes can handle with aplomb rough dirt paths such as fire roads however, for their weight they are generally not suited for anything more strenuous than that. The advantage is their increased number of luxury features and larger engines which make on-road riding much more enjoyable.