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Cycle News 2020 Issue 25 June 22

Cycle News is a weekly magazine that covers all aspects of motorcycling including Supercross, Motocross and MotoGP as well as new motorcycles

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2020 HONDA CRF1100L AFRICA TWIN & ADVENTURE SPORTS ES R I D E R E V I E W P68 shock giving 8.7 inches of travel. The difference is the Adventure Sports comes with a 45mm Showa fork, those too with 9.1 inches of travel and a Showa monoshock with 8.7 inches of travel, but they run the Showa Electronically Equipped Ride Adjustment Suspension (EERA) system that contains four different modes (Hard, Mid, Soft and Off Road), as well as electronic pre- load adjustment, which has its own settings of Rider, Rider/Luggage, Rider/Passenger, and Rider/Pas- senger/Luggage. Like the Ohlins system fitted to the Ducati Multistra- da, for example, the Showa system is dynamic and monitors suspension behavior in real time and adjusts the damping to suit. However, unlike the Ohlins system, there's no manual mode on the Showa's. Switch everything off (and there's a lot to switch off), and the true dirt bike nature of the Africa Twin shows its teeth.

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