Ride Red: A 90s Honda XR600R with retro chops
There’s a 295-pound Honda XR600R hanging on the wall at Dirtshop Thailand, in Bangkok. Made in 1990, it’s the actual motorcycle that…
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Discover the performance upgrades and styling tweaks that’ll make your own scrambler bike more fun to ride and own, whether on the road or dirt.
There’s a 295-pound Honda XR600R hanging on the wall at Dirtshop Thailand, in Bangkok. Made in 1990, it’s the actual motorcycle that…
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Read more »We’ve found something for everyone this week in our travels around the web. We’ve got an XT600 from the Netherlands, a Honda…
Read more »Hayden Roberts once quipped that when he moved from England to California in the early 2000s, it was “about 40 years too…
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