Moto Morini has unveiled the Camel 700 at the Milan motor show, adding a middleweight adventure motorcycle with a clear ability to venture beyond paved roads. Its 21-inch front wheel is matched by rally-raid styling: a sand-coloured finish, black body sections, LED headlight, tall windscreen, stepped seat, exposed subframe and luggage rack. The name reaches back to Moto Morini’s twin-cylinder Camel of the 1980s, which went as far as the Paris-Dakar desert races.

The engine is a 670cc parallel twin producing 81.5bhp at 10,000rpm and 70Nm at 7,000rpm. Euro5+ compliance is part of the specification, while a reduced-power version is also available for A2 licence holders. The electronics package includes ride-by-wire, several riding modes, adjustable traction control and ABS that can be disabled when riding off road. Bluetooth connectivity and navigation through the Moto Morini app are included as well.

Adventure hardware with long suspension travel

A tubular chromium-molybdenum steel trellis frame carries an aluminium swingarm. Ground clearance measures 280mm, the seat is 850mm from the ground and the stated dry weight is 200kg. The suspension allows adjustment of preload, rebound damping and compression damping, with 250mm of travel at both ends. Up front is a 48mm upside-down fork; the rear uses a single shock working through a Pro-Link linkage.

The spoked wheels measure 21 inches at the front and 18 inches at the rear, and are fitted with tubeless tyres. Brembo provides the brakes: twin 300mm front discs with floating callipers and a 255mm rear disc with an opposed-piston calliper. A 20-litre fuel tank completes the specification, giving the Camel 700 the equipment and capacity Moto Morini associates with longer-distance adventure travel.