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First Ride: Kawasaki VN1600 Classic review
By Mark Shippey on 14/09/2010 12:50:31
A hazy April afternoon cruising through the long, winding roads of the Northamptonshire countryside. Mark Shippey bonds with Kawasaki's VN1600 Classic
.Happy trolling the back roads, the VN changes into a nightmare from hell as soon as she sniffs a motorway. Lurching forward with great gusto, she will comfortably sail to 70mph, still leaving plenty of power for top gear overtaking. However, this is where
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Reader's Rides: Cotswolds
By James Watson on 01/12/2010 14:02:04
James Watson, 29, works in advertising sales. He rides a Kawasaki Z750, now lives and works in Bath but looks forward to visiting old friends in the Cotswolds for a decent ride
Growing up around the Cotswolds you learn two things. First, how to go fast on small, twisty country roads, and second, if the horse shit on the road looks fresh then cover a brake because the hunt is probably around the next bend!When I go back I
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Fit for purpose: Honda CRF450X Dakar
By Bertie Simmonds on 20/10/2010 10:33:35
The average road bike does a bit of everything. But there are machines in the biking world designed to do one job only. Pure specialists if you will. These are the bikes...
various modes for time travelled, distance travelled or kilometres left. You use this in conjunction with a road book, which scrolls on your bar-mounted road book reader."GPS/TRANSPONDER CONNECTORS: "You don't want to get lost in the desert. Believe me
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Fit for purpose: The Wall of Death Motorcycle
By Bertie Simmonds on 20/10/2010 10:25:14
The average road bike does a bit of everything. But there are machines in the biking world designed to do one job only. Pure specialists if you will. These are the bikes...
is the tassled seat fringes - a must for any respecting Wall of Death bike! You've so much low-down bottom-end in the motor to keep going around and around the wall as well which is a bonus. I first saw The Wall done at the Dorset Steam Fair and thought 'I'd love
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ABS - Is ABS the future for sports bikes?
By Mark Forsyth on 19/12/2008 14:45:44
In an industry first, Honda have produced a working prototype sportsbike ABS system that they hope will contribute to safer superbikes on the roads of Europe.
had to sit it up and take to an open-gated field. Bastard things. And then there’s ABS – fine in cars, don’t get me wrong – but bikes? Pants. Intrusive, crude and easily confused by irregular road surfaces. Early BMW sytsems were like operating a
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Fit for purpose: Diablo 666 Endurance ZX-10R
By Bertie Simmonds on 20/10/2010 10:03:37
The average road bike does a bit of everything. But there are machines in the biking world designed to do one job only. Pure specialists if you will. These are the bikes...
their stuff. Only four guys are allowed to touch the bike although you can have as many people as you want passing them stuff and they practice the drill for ages to get it perfectly choreographed. After a long stint on the bike, maybe an hour or so, the rider
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Extreme Sports - SP-2, ZX-10R, GSX-R1000
By John Cantlie on 20/10/2010 14:30:43
Get three mates riding three of the most extreme sportsbikes ever built, plot a devilish route through some of the best roads in the UK
We set out to have the best riding experience it's possible to have in one day for under £300.Just recently, we've had several conversations with manufacturers whereby the user-friendliness of a 1,000cc sportsbike was deemed paramount to successful
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Bike Icon: Kawasaki KR-1
By Harriet Ridley on 22/10/2010 10:44:42
Looking like it had been waved out of pitlane and on to the road, the KR-1 arrived in a puff of blue smoke back in 1988
and the fastest top speed of any of the 250cc two-strokes in production at that time. It was the closest thing to a race bike that Kawasaki had ever built for the road. It boasted a huge, lightweight aluminium frame that wouldn't look out of place on a 500cc bike
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Bike Icon: Ducati 888
By Mark Forsyth on 08/09/2010 15:09:22
The Ducati 888 is the Great Grandaddy of the 1198 and its awesome racing pedigree bred a road legend whose racing history is crucial to its status
- the belt driven ohc Pantah engine, a bit of a compressor maybe but still the best they had.In its two-valve form it had long reached the end of its racing road but Bordi had a plan. He grafted on a pair of water cooled cylinders topped off with a pair
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Fit for purpose: Police BMW K1200RS
By Bertie Simmonds on 20/10/2010 10:50:45
The average road bike does a bit of everything. But there are machines in the biking world designed to do one job only. Pure specialists if you will. These are the bikes...
MANPS 1058 Robin Marshall, Peterborough-based Cambridgeshire Constabulary bike cop."It's great being able to mix your job with the pleasure of riding a motorcycle. I don't know any bike cop who doesn't love riding! To do it you have to pass
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