Not every adventure ride has to cover trackless desert or teeter on the edge of a treacherous mountain ledge. There’s amazing destinations and routes that require covering long, long stretches of bitumen, forest thoroughfares the maps call “secondary roads” and stretches of dirt that are basically flat and in good shape. In that terrain the Versys is at home. And a very quick, comfortable and capable home it is, too.
Afuel-injected, liquid-cooled, 1043cc in-line four built from the white-knuckle Z1000 motor powering a dualsporter! What was Kawasaki thinking?