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Sidecarcross - Guaranteed Danger
By Warren Pole on 19/10/2010 10:21:20
Sidecar cross is Ben Hur minus the horses. Just add fearsome 100bhp 750cc two-strokes instead. Surely the best chance to lose Wozza forever?
Mentioning I was going to be a sidecar motocross passenger for a race weekend received mixed reactions. Those who knew nothing about the sport asked what it was while those who knew lots about it laughed very hard before wishing me luck in a way that suggested I had no chance of ...
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Living with a 2006 Kawasaki ZX-10R
By Warren Pole on 16/07/2006 09:35:11
Wozza fawns over the high classed superbike Top Trump card that is the Kawasaki ZX-10R
July 2006I love this bike because it is far too much, and that's exactly how 1000cc superbikes should be. It's too powerful (164bhp at the back wheel), it's too fast (186.1mph flat out), and it really is too green. Disgustingly and violently so. I
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Living with a 2002 Honda CBR954RR Fireblade
By Warren Pole on 12/06/2002 12:10:12
Wozza avoids the law with a calm time onboard the Honda CBR954RR
to be as easy to live with as every Blade before her. Yup, 2002 was going to be my Blade year. Reckon I made the right choice too having just done this month's 1,000cc big guns shootout (see p54), because the Blade turned out just three bhp less than the Suzook
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Kings of the Hill
By Warren Pole on 22/06/2009 10:45:41
Ducati's Hypermotard goes toe-to-toe with KTM and Buell through the vicious twists and turns of a Championship hill-climb event in Wiltshire
long time sportsbike riders have been searching for bikes that offer the hard-charging thrills we crave without the associated issues 180bhp, a clear road and a lack of self-control can conspire to bring about.We've tried retros and streetbikes
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Road Test: The Chosen Ones - Yamaha YZF-R1
By Warren Pole on 22/04/2008 22:07:14
In homage to Valentino Rossi's Yamaha-mounted world championship win, TWO takes all four generations of R1 to Spain for a right good thrashing and a weekend at the races .
frighteningly fast entry right hander with next-to-no braking markers. A pair of uphill turns later, both of which flatten out on the exit, need a cautious throttle hand, especially with upwards of 138bhp on tap, and also weed out the sorted back ends from
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Road Test: MZ 1000SF
By Warren Pole on 29/04/2008 21:01:23
The East Germans strip off in the name of freedom and liberate a thumping good naked bike from beneath the wraps of their less exciting 1000S
- 113bhp@7500rpm TORQUE - 72lb.ft@7000rpm WEIGHT - 210kg SEAT HEIGHT - 825mm FUEL CAPACITY - 20L TOP SPEED - 140mph 0-60 - n/a TANK RANGE - n/a
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First Ride: 2002-03 Aprilia RSV-R Mille
By Warren Pole on 29/03/2008 19:29:06
What on earth could Aprilia do to improve their already-ace Mille-R? Not an enormous amount as I discovered at the launch of the 2003 bike in Italy.
Granted, said spiel was delivered in a manner that suggested these minor alterations were in fact earth-shattering developments capable of slashing seconds, perhaps even minutes from rider's lap times, and possibly securing world peace into the bargain, but behind the dry ice and...
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Road Test: BMW K1200R
By Warren Pole on 27/04/2008 21:48:52
It's big, it's weird looking and it doesn't have any clothes on. Oh yes, and it's very, very fast. Are BMW about to take the naked bruiser class by storm?
"Cien sesenta y tres caballos?" asks the traffic cop, pointing at the K1200R. Rifling through the mental bin my GCSE Spanish has been in for the last 15 years I try and work out what he's saying. I'm roasting like a boil-in-the-bag meal but just as my brain edges toward meltdown,...
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Living with a 2003 Suzuki SV1000
By Warren Pole on 12/09/2003 14:40:57
Warren Pole gives the Suzuki SV1000 a good threashing and then a good review. That's what you're after, isn't it?
September 2003Luckily for me (although perhaps less luckily for the Suzuki) I found myself in charge of our SV for a fortnight last month, and what a time we had of it because between us we packed in 800 miserable UK motorway miles, several soggy laps of central London, a visit t...
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Living with a 2003 Suzuki GSX-R750 K3
By Warren Pole on 12/10/2003 14:48:11
Warren Pole appeared to have the most number of longterm motorcycles to review here, but seemed to write the least about them. Figure that out?
October 2003"What's your favourite bike then?" is a question I get asked rather a lot. And it is an absolute bastard.I mean ETI Ducati's current 998 BSB bike is the most ludicrously sorted racebike I've ever been near, yet I still have an odd affection for Harley ElectraGlides. A...
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