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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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Used 600s: Kawasaki ZX-636R, Honda CBR600FS, Yamaha R6, Suzuki GSX-R600
By Bertie Simmonds on 10/09/2010 10:14:43
Yesterday's supersports screamers are still duking it out on the used battlefield. Under cover of sunshine, Bertie advances on middle England with a bunch of war veterans to find out who still cuts the mustard gas
're (mostly) tame and useable enough to ride straight after your test and yet still crazy enough to downsize to if the wife/hubby runs off with the milkman/ paperboy and you have to sell your latest sports 1000. So while we can harp on about new bikes all we
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Tyre Launch: Dunlop Qualifier II
By Bertie Simmonds on 24/07/2009 15:18:01
RoadSmart meets Qualifier – Dunlop’s fast road & track tyre
.Robinet explains that advances in carcass construction have brought further benefits for Qualifier II. “Our CTCS (Carcass Tension Control System) improves the even spread of stress over the whole radius of the tyre, so improving the quality of the contact patch
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Discuss: Chinese bikes will take over from Japanese
By Bertie Simmonds on 15/10/2008 17:17:00
Oriental, non-Japanese bikes are set to become the new Rice Rockets?
like to ride. No, not the traditional commuters and small-capacity learner bikes you expect from them, but decent, middleweight to heavyweight machines, possessed of much higher complexity and capable of greater excitement levels than seen before from
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Road Test: BMW R1150GS V R1200GS
By Bertie Simmonds on 26/01/2011 16:41:13
The bold, brash and huge 1200 GS Adventure takes on its dad - the tough, slugging film star 1150 GS Adventure in the wilds of Wales.
and electronic components. We're talking CAN bus, the onboard digital network come wiring loom fitted to the 1200. This is technology so advanced (apparently) that few understand and certainly no one without BMW's own software and a laptop can repair in the event
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Used Review: Sports 600s
By Bertie Simmonds on 05/04/2008 17:38:51
Yesterday's supersports screamers are still duking it out on the used battlefield. Under cover of sunshine, Bertie advances on middle England with a bunch of war veterans to find out who still cuts the mustard gas.
're (mostly) tame and useable enough to ride straight after your test and yet still crazy enough to downsize to if the wife/hubby runs off with the milkman/ paperboy and you have to sell your latest sports 1000. So while we can harp on about new bikes all we
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