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Honda's new Transalp is a bike designed with the solitary goal of opening up adventure rides to people who work for a living. It’s all about the price: the Transalp has an MSRP of $9999. That’s actually less than the CRF450RL dual-sport bike and far, far less than anything with similar performance from KTM, Ducati or BMW. It’s a 749cc parallel twin that puts out around 80 horsepower and offers a number of electronic riding aides. It’s the type of bike that you ride to your adventure and then ride home afterward. If the name sounds familiar, it's because it's was recycled from a very similar bike that was offered in 1987. That was a 600cc V-twin with a concept that baffled most Americans. We saw it as a tribute to an obscure stage race that started in Paris, France and finished in Dakar, Senegal. No one knew it was an adventure bike--that term hadn’t yet been coined. That bike quietly disappeared in the U.S. but remained in Europe, morphing through several configurations. Now, it's a different world. Honda estimates that the market for adventure bikes grew 400 percent in the last five years. We got to ride the bike during a 500-mile adventure through the dirt roads of Rural Pennsylvania. Join us while we talk our way though our first experience with the new Transalp.
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