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Niall's Spin: Suzuki SV1000S
By Niall Mackenzie on 30/09/2010 13:58:39
The SV1000S may not be as dashing as the TL1000S but it fares pretty well in positive things
Click to read: Suzuki SV1000S owners reviews, Suzuki SV1000S specs and to see the Suzuki SV1000S image gallery.BIG BIKE FUN for medium bike money. These sell new for about £5K so there are some sizzling bargains on the used market. They're a top
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First Ride: 2004 MZ 1000S
By Jon Urry on 30/03/2008 21:29:42
From the Eastern Block to the East End, MZ has come a long way. But can the firm's new MZ1000S sports tourer really take on the likes of VFR, Sprint and ST3?
-strokes. To be fair, it has been making the four-stroke 660cc Baghira supermoto for a while now, but it's the new MZ 1000S and its 1000cc parallel twin engine that the company is planning its future around.My first impressions of the bike as it is unloaded out
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First Ride: 2004 MV Agusta F4 1000S
By Visordown on 30/03/2008 20:30:04
With company finances back on track and production delays a thing of the past (for now...), the long awaited F4 1000S is finally, eventually, here. At last...
to 190mph.That's far faster than any MV Agusta streetbike before, and no wonder. Apart from its paintwork and graphics, the F4 1000S looks almost identical to the 750cc four with which MV made its dramatic return back in 1999. But beneath that fairing
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How do 1000s compare to the 800s
By Robin Goodwin on 09/11/2011 09:41:35
Pedrosa topped the timesheets yesterday, but is the new 1000cc generation quicker?
that this outright fastest time was set before the introduction of Bridgestone control tyres.Overall, looking at the times the 1000s are up on Stoner's fastest 800 time by nearly four tenths of a second, but still just over a second off Rossi's outright record
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Future Classics: '97 Suzuki TL1000S, '94 Honda Fireblade & '98 Triumph T595 Daytona
By Jon Urry on 03/08/2010 11:14:57
Looking for an excuse to buy a bike that’s both great fun and a potential money-maker? Each of these beauties costs less than £2,500 but all are future classics still just flying below the radar of mainstream popularity. Try these three for size. Go on
firm favourite with Triumph fans. At £2,500 this bike was not only mint, it was also a certain classic. Next was Suzuki’s TL1000S. When you are looking at a future investment the bike needs a reason for becoming a classic, and what better than a
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Road Test: CBR900RR vs YZF750 v TL1000s V BMW 635i
By Warren Pole on 20/04/2008 21:43:23
£2,500 gets you a lot of motorbike if you use your noggin these days. We did just that and landed a trio of minto sportsbikes. Then we got a Beemer for the same miserly sum just for comparison's sake
'93 FireBlade, a low mileage YZF750R that looked like it had spent its life in one of Michael Jackson's oxygen tents, and a shockingly clean TL1000S.Then Alex threw us a curve ball from the editor's chair. "What sort of car can you get for the same
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Bare Necessities - Naked 1000s
By Jon Urry on 08/12/2003 16:02:22
Niall, Gus, Jon and Daryll get back to nature and dabble in a bit of group nakedness
just to the Japanese naked bikes for this test, and large capacity ones at that. So it was the Yamaha Fazer 1000, Honda Hornet 900, Kawasaki Z1000 and Suzuki SV1000 that found themselves at the mercy of the TWO test team.Continue the Naked 1000s Test
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First Ride: Ducati Sport 1000S
By Jon Urry on 02/04/2008 12:18:52
Achingly beautiful, plain aching to ride. Another classic stunner from Italy.
Why do women wear stilettos? Despite the discomfort they wear them because walking on tiptoe makes their legs look longer, their bums more shapely and their boobs stick out. It's fashion over function.Why do you want a Ducati Sport 1000S? The very
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Road Test: 2004 Supersports Test - 1000'S
By Jon Urry, James Whitham on 22/04/2008 20:22:26
Take sixteen of the best sportsbikes in the world to a circuit for three days, put them on identical tyres, add thirteen journalists from ten different countries and you have the most comprehensive test ever.
original equipment tyres, and to give the riders the grip required to push the bikes hard enough to really sort out the winners from the losers.The bikes were split into two categories - 1000s and 600s - and every rider filled in a form rating each bike
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Road Test: 2007 Naked 1000's
By Staff on 28/05/2008 23:09:33
Seven 1,000cc streetbikes with no fairings, low top speeds and stacks of attitude. With your head stuck out in the breeze 100mph really feels like 100mph - welcome back to proper biking
A wind of change is gradually sweeping across sportsbike-obsessed Britain. While the latest generation of superbikes are jaw-dropping in their abilities, with MotoGP levels of handling and acceleration, they find themselves ever more at odds with Britain's speed-despising road sy...
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