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Devon Help Us - 2003 Tourer Test
By Jon Urry on 05/11/2003 13:43:43
The sorry tale of taking three express tourers to the land of eternal rain and mist in an attempt to find a ray of sunshine
was beautiful. Mum told me dad was wandering around the garden without a shirt on in his shorts and sandals (maybe Scotland wasn't such a bad idea after all!). What could go wrong?Stopping at the first service station just before Bristol things seemed
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Stop Right Now: ABS vs. The Man
By Jon Urry on 29/11/2010 16:05:26
ABS: good for those that wants it. Or is it even better than that? Can you handle the truth? Be prepared, as Prof Jon Urry and his performing lab rats demonstrate to us all the startling reality
near-identical Triumph Sprint STs, one with ABS, one without, and put them to the test in damp-to-wet conditions. James Whitham acted as our experienced hand and TWO staffer John Hogan as the not so experienced one. A VBox GPS data recorder was also
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Road Test: Versys V Bandit 650S V MT-03
By Jon Urry on 13/04/2008 13:09:52
We destroyed Australia in the rugby World Cup, and quite possibly that’s all that matters.To give our underdog team a bit of extra support, TWO took the backroad route to France on a Kawasaki Versys, a Yamaha MT-03 and a Suzuki 650 Bandit...
the freaky curves and mad lines of the Kawasaki. You get the feeling this is a bike that was designed to be practical, then afterwards the designers were given the finished bike and told to smooth the edges and make it look pretty. Which isn’t a bad way
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Road Test: Hornet 600 v Z750 v Bandit 650 v FZ6
By Jon Urry on 27/04/2008 22:03:57
Whitham takes us by the hand and leads us through the streets of Huddersfield. Four battered middleweights, a bag of chips and a Fanta, please.
agreed. "Most of the industry is shut down, but Huddersfield ain't that bad really. Just outside he town you've got some great roads, the moors are top for bikes. Come up and I'll show you." And so here we are, stood in the rain, eating chips covered
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Christian Iddon Interview
By Jon Urry on 30/03/2008 21:44:41
TWO meets Britain's greatest supermoto rider to find out if he's capable of keeping both wheels inline for once
terms and spent most of his life in various paddocks all over the world. Sitting on the floor of a pit garage at Donington Park he looks and acts just like any other young racer. When a camera is pointed in his direction he instinctively reaches for a
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Christian Iddon: The Apprentice
By Jon Urry on 01/12/2010 15:14:53
You may not have heard of him but Christian Iddon is a World Supermoto racer. His raw riding talent is obvious. So, has he got what it takes to make an impact in road racing? Mackenzie passes his verdict.
paddocks all over the world. Sitting on the floor of a pit garage at Donington Park he looks and acts just like any other young racer. When a camera is pointed in his direction he instinctively reaches for a baseball cap, partly to keep sponsors Red Bull
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Road Test: SXV5.5 v. ZZR1400 v. GSX-R750 v. Rocket
By Niall Mackenzie, Tim Dickson, John Hogan, Jon Urry on 20/05/2008 10:30:19
Motorcycling with the mostest and living with extremes: Kawasaki ZZR1400, Triumph Rocket III, Suzuki GSX-R750 and an Aprilia SXV5.5. Can too much ever be enough?
, but the GSX-R750 is one of the purest forms of motorcycling ever created.Aprilia SXV5.5Special excess: race bike on the road Lived with: Jon UrryI've been riding the Aprilia for less than 20 yards, in fact I haven't even made it out of the office car park
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