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What's happened to the VFR1200 tourer?
By Visordown News on 17/02/2011 10:17:32
Honda's missing bike that never was, but has it been replaced? The mystery continues
BACK in 2009 you couldn't move for news and rumours about Honda's forthcoming VFR1200, and the message was clear: three bikes were under development.First up there was the VFR1200F, which duly appeared at the end of the year as a 2010 model
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First Ride: 2006 Moto Morini Corsaro 1200
By Jon Urry on 22/09/2010 14:00:00
With pre-production faults gone will the Corsaro hit or miss in the UK bike pond?
be ironed out on the final production bike.Fast forward a few months and I'm in the midst of my second Corsaro experience - and I wouldn't recommend it for the faint-hearted.After a few miles getting to know the bike I nailed it in first. Rather than
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Adventure bikes, why they are the new cool
By Visordown on 25/10/2010 10:08:22
Forget trying to look cool on your new sportsbike, there is a new craze in town. Adventure bikes are the latest up and coming fashion accessory. You’d be a right Charley to miss out...
under a quarter of all bikes sold in the UK are sportsbikes, whereas naked bikes account for about 20% and adventure bikes 10%. But that isn’t the most significant figure, in a sales climate which is plateauing adventure bike registrations were up 31
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MotoGP Evolution - Race tech to the road
By Gordon Ritchie on 30/03/2006 12:18:23
Four years on from the advent of MotoGP, and with the 800cc formula beckoning, there's just one thing missing: the trickle-down of race tech to street bikes. Why?
generation of hypersports litre bikes largely in the MotoGP kitchen. Then water it down, swap spicy but pricey materials for more durable and affordable roadbike ingredients, and still whip out a most astounding streetbike, with huge performance potential
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Last Ride of the Summer
By Stuart Barker on 28/12/2002 17:02:21
Having been relegated to a ten year-old Ford Escort for the past few months for reasons to dull to go into, I've now realised how much there is to miss when you've not got a bike
for the last few months, I've realised how much there is to miss when you've not got a bike - mostly the ability to cut through traffic. My propensity for road rage is alarmingly high and it was only a matter of time before I assaulted one of the tin box morons
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Sturgis 2007 close miss video
By Tim Skilton on 08/10/2007 14:08:13
Leaping deer jumps moving bike
YouTube VideoERROR: If you can see this, then YouTube is down or you don't have Flash installed.WATCH THIS clip from this year's Sturgis Rally of a deer leaping over a moving biker.Close shave or what?
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Missing quad biker's body found
By Visordown News on 24/04/2010 15:36:19
Female quad biker found 17 days after going missing feared drowned
POLICE IN Scotland have recovered the body of a woman swept away by a fast-flowing river after she fell from her quad bike.The force believes Linda Weir, 58, was swept away by the force of a swollen river, near Thornhill in Dumfries and Galloway
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VIDEO: Trackday near miss x 2
By Visordown News on 16/02/2009 13:50:59
Is this bloke the luckiest trackday rider ever?
NEAR MISSES don't come much closer than in this video sent in by a Visordown reader.Watch this onboard footage as a lucky rider escapes being knocked off TWICE by a crashing rider and then his
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Evel Knievel tribute this Sunday BBC2 9pm
By Visordown News on 22/12/2007 11:12:02
Don't miss it!
DESPITE EARLIER TV classifications having the show down as going out Christmas Day, you can actually see Top Gear's resident host (and genuine bike nut) Richard Hammond interviewing the late, great Evel Knievel at 9pm THIS Sunday on BBC 2.The show
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VIDEO: Biker's near miss with speeding train
By Visordown News on 10/11/2008 11:09:48
Caught on camera: Lucky Chinese biker escapes with his life
leaps to safety at the very last minute.Pity his poor bike didn't get off so lightly.
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