HONDA AFRICA TWIN VS. KTM 790 ADVENTURE R
COMPARISON TEST
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traction on the fly, choose one of four throttle modes, and have
Off-Road selected for the ABS that allows you to lock the back
when while still having ABS on the front. Rally mode enables
the KTM to be more of a dirt bike than a street bike that's ca-
pable of going off-road.
The Africa Twin is offered with Honda's "automatic" Dual
Clutch Transmission (DCT) system, an $800 added expense. For
this comparison, however, we focused on the manual-shift AT.
Finally, fuel capacity for these two machines that are de-
signed to ride from one end of the continent to the other and
over everything in between is 4.9 gallons (with a one-gallon
The Africa Twin is a big bike, no doubt, but you can get away with some improbable riding on it.
KTM's ABS system
offers more
adjustability.
