Bursting into Europe in 1976, the XT500 reinvented single-cylinder off-road thumpers and spawned a new wave of dirt four-strokes. Can the original still claim to be the best?

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Owning his childhood poster bike hasn’t disappointed our road test boss Chris

Jaguars have come into and gone from the Buckley fleet over the past 15 or 20 years, but I have not always reported on them, perhaps because they never felt as if they were going to be firm fixtures.

We’ve just picked up our DR-Z and packed three off-road trips and a commute into the past week. This is what we think so far…

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