heated seat and electric mirrors.In its 10 years, the Burgman 650 hasn’t seen a great deal of changes. What has changed in the last 10 years is the motorcycling market and that’s one of the reasons Suzuki has blown the dust off the original 650’s project

Harley describe the new machine:Pare down a Harley-Davidson® Softail® motorcycle to its essential elements and you have the Slim. From its trimmed front fender to its narrow rear end, Slim is a no-nonsense, back-to-basics motorcycle. Call it stripped

the actual race.In all cases where the first race is stopped for climatic reasons, then the restart will, automatically, be a “wet” race.INTERRUPTION OF A RACE (RED FLAG)All riders competing in the race at the time the red flag was displayed can restart

August 2001Sniffing around, I saw that the one motorcycling species we were lacking from our excellent groupage was a Super-Tourer. Plenty of supersports, plenty of superbikes, but no Super-Tourers. Which, I thought, wasn't really on

storage and bungee hooks all aid the civility and convenience of the bike still further.The example we rode, a 52-reg, 4000 miler, had obviously benefited from a doting previous owner and was in mint condition. On sale for £6395 at Riverside Motorcycles

near dead heat, the backward slide into motorcycle music-hall is unstoppable.The TV screens will be packed with jostling machines, giving equal TV time to every sponsor. Everybody will be equally successful, and equally famous. And fans of real bike

motorcycle can beat a 2.6bhp, 4.5cc radio-controlled car from a standing start over an eighth of a mile down the famous Santa Pod runway. If it all sounds just a little bit too easy with the odds stacked massively in favour of the bike, then let’s just take a

. It was that old one, "a fastidious jumping ofthe limber".Others abound, and they keep coming, reinforced by automatic computerised translation programmes, and ranging from amusingly garbled metaphors to magnificent unadulterated gibberish. There's a strong new

said, with an air of mystic menace.This, in essence is how you ride an 80bhp, methanol burning motorcycle with no brakes. On shale. Elbow to elbow with three other lunatics. You ride with your heart both emotionally and physically.I’m not suggesting

there’s nothing quite like a Rokon. And that’s before we get to the drum-like wheels that can be filled with water or even spare fuel, or left empty to help the bike float. It’s more like a two-wheeled tractor than a motorcycle in the conventional sense