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Niall's Spin: KTM 950 Adventure (2003-04)
By Niall Mackenzie on 08/10/2010 12:04:00
Niall spins his review on the KTM 950 Adventure, an exotic dirt bike that makes an excellent touring machine
Click to read: KTM 950 Adventure owners reviews, KTM 950 Adventure specs and to see the KTM 950 Adventure image gallery.Made by the house of Austrian madmen otherwise known as KTM and using top-spec components, the 950 Adventure is incredibly
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First Ride: 2006 BMW R1200GS Adventure
By Niall Mackenzie on 20/09/2010 20:03:34
If you fancy a lap of the planet put one of these on your shopping list. R1200GS gets the Adventure treatment
Click to read: BMW R1200GS Adventure owners reviews, BMW R1200GS Adventure specs and to see the BMW R1200GS Adventure image gallery.THERE'S NO GETTING away from it: the BMW R1200GS Adventure is a man's bike. If you're a wimp you can forget it, it
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Niall's Spin: KTM 990 Adventure
By Niall Mackenzie on 30/09/2010 12:34:53
The KTM 990 provies a firm, positive ride but fails to impress when comes to being comfortable
Click to read: KTM 990 Adventure owners reviews, KTM 990 Adventure specs, KTM 990 Adventure image gallery.I ASSUMED, WITH its off-road heritage, the KTM 990 Adventure wouldn't be the most comfortable bike on a long road trip. Well, I was wrong, as I
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Niall Mackenzie Column - Jan 2007
By Niall Mackenzie on 01/01/2007 19:08:31
The voices are telling Niall to look for adventure, but is the great outdoors really all it's cracked up to be? More importantly, is this the first sign of a mid-life crisis for our Spuds?
, dare I say it, danger. I'm not sure why this is, however. It could be because I regularly bump into the likes of barmy-but-unique Nick Sanders or Charley Boorman, who always seem to have a new adventure story to tell. It could also be the fault of my
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Niall's Spin: Honda XL1000V Varadero (2001-02)
By Niall Mackenzie on 08/10/2010 15:48:57
A touring bike disguised as an off-roader if ever there was one, the Varadero's dirt pretensions are just that
Click to read: Honda XL1000V Varadero owners reviews, Honda XL1000V Varadero specs and to see the Honda XL1000V Varadero image gallery.Take one of these onto anything other than the smoothest, most hard-packed of trails and you'll soon be wishing you hadn't. But that's not the po...
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Living with a 2007 KTM SuperDuke
By Niall Mackenzie on 23/03/2008 10:47:31
Niall Mackenzie's long term review of the KTM SuperDuke
March 2008Since I took delivery of this black beauty in May ‘07 it has rarely failed to bring a smile to my face. Be it on a summer’s day, jacket and jeans blast (a rare occurrence last year I admit) or a full wet suit trudge up the M1 I have never tired of my stealth machine. Th...
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Living with a 2005 Honda Hornet 600
By Niall Mackenzie on 15/11/2005 12:10:56
Niall Mackenzie rags his Hornet 600 all in the name of giving us lot a long term review. And it worked
August 2005I'm lucky in that during any year I get the opportunity to sample many different bikes. But whether on an intense track test, a four-day sprint across Europe or a new model launch, I always ask myself if I could live with whatever bike I happen to be riding.Although th...
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Living with a 2008 Suzuki GSX-R750
By Niall Mackenzie on 16/01/2009 12:55:14
Niall Mackenzie reviews the 2008 Suzuki GSX-R750 throughout a year of abuse
over that speed that might be what caused the problem. We need to look at the tyre before we make a proper statement.”NIALL’S SET-UPFRONT:• Preload, 2 turns out from max• Rebound, 1.5 turns out from max• High Speed compression, six flats out from max
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Motorcycle Track Guide: Knockhill
By Niall Mackenzie on 22/07/2010 13:21:06
Rip around the bumps and undulations around Scotland's answer to Laguna Seca, Niall Mackenzie shows you how to get Knockhill right
Knockhill may be just over one mile long but it’s variety of corners and elevation changes make every lap an adventure. Over the last two decades Scottish riders have been a major force in the UK, Isle of Man TT and overseas – I firmly believe
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First Ride: 2004 BMW R1100S Boxer Cup Replika
By Niall Mackenzie on 30/03/2008 21:37:30
BMW's take on 'race bike for the road' makes a refreshing change from the usual Jap fare.
My short relationship with the limited edition BMW R1100S BoxerCup Replika was an adventure to say the least. Yes, it was a little traumatic - not to mention expensive - at times, but an adventure none the less.All I had wanted to do was get a few
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