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Return of the Yamaha Vmax
By Jon Urry & Ben Cope on 26/08/2008 09:25:05
It’s been 12 years in the planning, makes over 197bhp and will set you back nearly £16,000. Welcome back Vmax, you have some big boots to fill
to be perfect. We wanted to make 200bhp but we also wanted to make a bike that would pass the Euro III emissions, and this is hard. So, after years of development we are finally happy that this new Vmax can carry on the great Vmax tradition!”So why did it take
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The Best 600 On The Planet - Crutchlow's Championship winning R6
By Ben Miller on 08/04/2010 14:57:16
NO ARGUMENTS, FOR THESE ARE THE NUMBERS: 140BHP, 158KG, £45,000 and more points than anyone else in the World Supersport championship. Meet Cal Crutchlow’s R6
Tucked-in on a Valencia start/finish straight hazy with heat, the blue and carbon of Cal Crutchlow’s R6 were so tight to the exhausts of Anthony West’s CBR600RR going into the last lap, the two were virtually indistinguishable. The headline battle of the third round of the champi...
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The story behind the revamped 2008 Hayabusa
By John Hogan on 21/06/2010 11:43:44
After nine years waiting, Suzuki unveiled their all-new Hayabusa in 2008. Promising 198bhp and the fastest acceleration of any production superbike, we spoke to the team of people who put it together
How fitting that Suzuki chose Rome as the venue to launch the 2008 Hayabusa - after all, neither were built in a day. Suzuki have made us wait a full nine years for an update on the original 173bhp 194mph heavyweight hypertourer. Time
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2008 Suzuki GSX-R1300 Hayabusa
By John Hogan on 27/03/2008 11:20:21
After nine years waiting , Suzuki finally unveil their all-new Hayabusa. Promising 198bhp and the fastest acceleration of any production superbike, we spoke to the team of people who put it together...
The new 2008 HayabusaHOW fitting Suzuki chose Rome as the venue to launch the 2008 Hayabusa - after all, neither were built in a day. Suzuki have made us wait a full nine years for an update on the original 173bhp 194mph heavyweight hypertourer
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Bike Icon: Yamaha FS1-E
By Benjamin Kubas Cronin on 10/09/2010 13:42:24
It's the bike that was once parked outside chip shops across the land. Here we look at the Fizzie and all of its 4.8bhp. Long live pedal power!
handy if you ran out of fuel!It's hard to imagine there's actually a piston working in the tiny barrel, but there's a full 49cc being put to work. The two-stroke, rotary valve induction engine produced 4.8bhp at 7000 rpm - more than enough to take
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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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Colin McRae at Play
By Visordown on 28/11/2002 16:02:17
What do you do for kicks when your name's Colin McRae and your job is driving a 300bhp rally car over a variety of non-stick surfaces at 130mph? Simple, buy a bike. And not just any bike, a £35,500 British Superbike replica Suzuki GSX-R1000...
restrictive and heavier standard exhaust. Nikki Kennedy then tuned the engine to provide an output of around 175bhp. Getting all that power to the track is the job of the gorgeously sculpted replacement Harris swingarm and Öhlins rear shock.At the front
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Motorcycle Radar: 1990
By Roland Brown on 24/11/2010 15:58:06
1990 was a mixed year for motorcycling. Remember the Laverda Navarro?
of the 851 that had begun the Bologna brand’s eight-valve V-twin line two years earlier. In Rimini Bimota launched the Tuatara, featuring the 140bhp motor from Yamaha’s FZR1000 EXUP in a classy alloy beam-framed chassis. Named after “the world’s fastest
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The rise of the 2002 Yamaha YZF-R1
By Bertie Simmonds on 22/04/2002 15:24:57
After the original 1998 R1, this version had a tough act to follow. So how did they go about developing and improving the previous model
Back in 1996 Kunihiko Miwa was attending the launch of the Yamaha Thunderace. A worthy bike, if a bit porky and uninspiring. At the time Miwa decided he wanted to build a bike with a philosophy of 'no compromise.' This he did, by coming up with the YZF-R1, a bike which was to do ...
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WDW: Hyper Evo Testastretta
By Ben Cope on 07/08/2012 10:17:57
Just one of a few custom bikes at World Ducati Week
's ditched the air-cooled lump for a watercooled motor, making this more like a Monster S4 RS on stilts, but I love it.As well as the beefy engine, the Hyper Evo TS features gas-pressurised forks and Brembo monobloc brakes. Other touches include the custom
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