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Town & Country Club: Aprilia Tuono V Ducati Monster S4
By Warren Pole on 19/05/2003 11:51:41
Want pose without a Harley? Want performance without pain? With the cosmopolitan cool of a night at the opera alongside the open road potential of your average sportsbike, Ducati's Monster S4 and Aprilia's Tuono could be just what you need...
hours on the M25 when a simple bike collection job became a nightmare of epic proportions after a selection of cars decided to drive into each other at junction 14.So it was with darkness well and truly fallen and a light drizzle in the air that we
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First Ride: 2006 Ducati GT1000
By Alex Hearn on 22/09/2010 11:10:10
Ducati's Sport Classics are retro cool but about as comfortable as an Indian bus ride. Now, with added comfort, comes the GT1000.
than 70mph with harsh suspension and aggressive clip-ons.So not a bike for a casual ride, then. Oh no. I know, because I was going to hoof mine 500 miles from where I was in France to the Ducati plant in Bologna on some sort of dewey-eyed romantic road
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KTM RC8R vs. Corby Glen
By Ben Cope on 04/11/2010 11:46:22
Highway to Heaven: Six bikes, six roads, six twats, six stories. Ben Cope knows the score. But not even the supreme skills of ace lensman Paul Bryant could make this internet millionaire look any good
will tell you that it’ll take one and a half hours to do. Try half that time and you’d be closer to the mark, which is why it makes this a textbook road for those who like their blasts exactly that: short, sharp and punctuated. We don’t all have a weekend
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First Ride: Benelli Tornado Tre
By Jon Urry on 13/09/2010 14:07:35
Benelli boss Andrea Merloni describes the Tornado as his 'crazy project'. After four years in development this bike will either make or break his company.
mogul Bernie Ecclestone. The man with a wad of cash big enough to choke a blue whale has spent a fortune converting the historic circuit, up until 1999 the host of the Bol d'Or 24-hour race, into a purpose built F1 test track. Which explains the lack
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Tomatina: Ducati Multistrada S, KTM 950SM & BMW K1200R
By James Whitham on 29/12/2005 17:20:06
Take three barking bikes to the world's biggest food fight and it's a guaranteed recipe for chaos. James Whitham is your referee
, throwing, smearing, rolling on the floor and tearing at each others' clothes. And the lorries kept coming, five in all, each with 25 tons of tomatoes - that's 250,000 tins' worth!An hour later the town had become one huge Bloody Mary. At midday the cannon
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Sex In The City - 125cc sportsbike road test
By Staff on 07/06/2009 12:38:57
Heading my way? Three of the sauciest 125s ever made hanging out for slappers in Amsterdam’s De Wallen district
sports bike road testWhat’s the score with 125s? they’re bloody everywhere!For the last few years Honda’s CBR125R has ruled the roost, shifting a massive 2,738 bikes when it was launched in 2005, a feat that made it the UK’s best selling bike ahead of a
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Living with a 2004 Victory King Pin
By Mark Shippey on 15/10/2005 11:24:04
Mark Shippey reviews Victory's Kingpin cruiser over the course of a year
. The kit consists of new mufflers, vented airbox cover, K&N filter plus a fuelling re-map and ignition timing change for around £550. What a revelation. The open pipes are ear-splitting, so no creeping home in the wee small hours for me anymore. I knew
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Road Test: 2007 600 Supersport review
By Jon Urry on 26/05/2007 20:30:05
Have the latest sports 600s taken track focus to a level where it has limited their viability as road bikes? It certainly looks that way, but then looks can be deceiving...
oddball capacity is the Triumph track or road focused? Handling and styling say track, engine says road.So with all this in mind the only way to test the latest generation of sports 600s was to ride them in every environment. As well as letting Niall do
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Big vs Small: BMW F800R & K1300R
By Ben Miller on 26/07/2010 09:20:37
One manufacturer; BMW, one heavyweight; K1300R and one middleweight; F800R. We settle the size issue once and for all, round one...
across a Northamptonshire bathed in perfect Wimbledon weather, I’m pondering what on God’s green Earth could possibly be finer. Yesterday the big K1300R carried me home with unruffled ease, filtering through hours of M25 car park and taking on a couple
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Road Test: Beaujolais Or Bust
By Warren Pole, Colin Goodwin, Adam Harvey, Martin Heath on 22/04/2008 22:24:08
Four men, four bikes, one quest - to bring home the firstbottle of Beaujolais Nouveau 2004 to British shores. The question isn't 'Why?', it's 'Why not?' Allez!
of Mutley aboard Yamaha's Fazer 1000, while snapper Martin Heath would ride the ZZ-R1200 as Peter Perfect.As mentioned earlier, it would seem I begun the deceit that permeated this road trip, but in fact it was someone more powerful who did this
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