Looking at our new 2024 calendars we see that it’s… the 28th year of basically unchanged production for the Suzuki DR650. And if you consider previous-gen models, the first DR600 came out in1984 as an ‘85 model, and the 650 series began in 1990. That’s a lot of history, and ...
I first “discovered” this fact when I bought the Suzuki DR650 (blog) for the webBikeWorld project entitled “Budget Adventure Touring“. I quickly discovered that simpler is indeed better and a single-cylinder 650cc bike that can basically be field-stripped blindfolded is, in fact, much mo...