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Cycle News Issue 49 December 11

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KAWASAKIS IN UTAH P76 Feature Cruising through Snow Canyon State Park feels like you're a living part in a water painting. BY RENNIE SCAYSBROOK PHOTOGRAPHY BY KEVIN WING AND DOUG HENRY W e're in Utah for a press trip with a difference. Kawasaki has invited us to come and try not just the Versys 1000 and Versys X-300, but also have a go in a side x side and a final romp on the ungodly fast supercharged, 1498cc, inline four-cylinder Jet Ski Ultra 310 LX. Yet within five minutes of riding on day one, it could be any bike beneath me and I wouldn't have cared because I was so en- thralled by the stunning vistas around me. Prehistoric is a word that springs to mind when thinking of Utah's Snow Utah Dng Canyon State Park. The burnt orange and white sandstone cliffs all around me, a visual and geological result of 2500- foot deep sand dunes compressed by hundreds of millions of years, swap light flashes between the canyon, making it difficult to keep my eyes on the road and the Kawasaki Versys 1000 pointed in the right direction. The beauty of this park is simply stag- gering. It's easy to imagine this place not so different from now, when great beasts walked uninhabited and the land was in Ever y Which Way

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