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The Complete Guide to Motorcycle Categories and Bike Types What's the difference between a Sport Bike and Sport Tourer? How does a Cruiser compare to a Standard motorcycle? What on earth is an Adventure bike anyways? Here's your complete guide to motorcycle categories so you'll never be in the dark again. Frustrated with the constraints of modern life, a grizzled adventurer sets out to explore the hinterlands, unsupported, on this most rugged of machines. Years later, now sporting a beard, the ADV rider emerges from the wilderness equipped with the wisdom of the road. All you need to do the same is to write BMW a very large check, then add a little more for some own-brand riding gear. It turns out that riding a really, really heavy bike off-road is actually really, really hard. It also turns out that — despite the advertising — really, really heavy, really, really complicated bikes are quite fragile, requiring the most expensive gasoline, routine fettling by specially trained mechanics, thousands of dollars in aftermarket protection parts and a long and dedicated approach to learning the specific riding skills necessary. It also turns out that most people are buying ADV bikes for that rugged, bearded image, not to actually take them to far away places. Knowing that, all the motorcycle companies these days make big ADV bikes that are actually just tall tourers. Muster the courage to actually take one onto the dirt and you’ll be shocked at just how poorly they perform. You see JUMPS and SLIDES and ACTION in all the promotional material, but the reality is that it’s incredibly hard just to ride one down a dirt trail at walking pace. Good luck.