Rock 'n' Roll
BBC TopGear India|April 2018

When a full-blown off-roader is n’t on your wishlist, and a street bike won't cut it, what you need is the ideal balance.They’re called scramblers and we help you pick the best one

Devesh Shobha
Rock 'n' Roll

Sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll pretty much defined the decade of 1960 in the West. And between all of that, a glorious decade of the rise of scrambler motorcycles was somewhat lost. For a select group of enthusiasts though, those heavily chopped motorcycles were their choice of weaponry when it came to racing from point A to B, charting out a route “as the crow flies”. Yes, it meant they rode through mud, ruts, slush, water and everything else that helped them cut time, which is why they stripped-down their street motorcycles to its skin, added long-travel suspension and fitted them with knobby tyres, giving them the ultimate go-anywhere attitude. That’s where they also got the name from – since they scrambled across the trails, the term ‘scrambler’ was coined.

Looking at its popularity, mainstream bikemakers couldn’t stay away from it, thus giving birth to factory-built scramblers in the ’60s. However, more purpose-built dual sport and motocross motorcycles developed in the ’70s forced the scramblers to then die a slow, natural death. Thankfully, the segment is now slowly but steadily being resurrected and more than half a century later, a barrage of scramblers have been born, two of whom have already found their way onto our shores, which is what you see here.

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