FOR the press-riding launch of the brand new 2023 Honda XL750 Transalp, we headed to Portugal for an on and off-road tour on the new middleweight machine.

Honda’s new Transalp XL750 adventure bike is a classy, affordable all-rounder with the easy manners of the original but with added fire in its belly, thanks to its wonderous new motor and pin sharp handling.

Honda XL750 Transalp (2023) video review

With quite a small off-road section and a considerable amount of on-road riding, this launch was extra of an intro to the Transalp, however it’s still greater than enough to realise it’s a very capable machine.

The on-road handling of the bike is exceptionally good, with Honda fine-tuning the chassis, suspension and weight distribution to create a motorcycle that’s arduous to beat on this sector.

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The Transalp the latest in a new category of mid-priced, mid-sized, mid-capacity adventure bikes with wire-spoked 21in front wheels, sub-100bhp performance and varying degrees of green-lane ability – a class which includes the market-leading Yamaha Ténéré 700, Aprilia’s Tuareg 660, KTM’s re-born 790 Adventure and Suzuki’s new V-Strom 800DE.

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