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Retro Cool: Honda CB1300, Yamaha XJR1300, Kawasaki ZRX1100, Suzuki GSX1400
By Jon Urry on 13/09/2010 09:46:20
For the ultimate street cred you need flat bars and a motor with more grunt than a '70s porn star. Time to turn back the clock and discover the best in retro biking
.And that's what these retro bikes are all about. They aren't the best handling bikes around but they hark back to a time when bikes had soul and character and weren't faceless plastic rockets that do everything perfectly. And it's exactly this that makes
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Road Test: CBR900RR vs YZF750 v TL1000s V BMW 635i
By Warren Pole on 20/04/2008 21:43:23
£2,500 gets you a lot of motorbike if you use your noggin these days. We did just that and landed a trio of minto sportsbikes. Then we got a Beemer for the same miserly sum just for comparison's sake
"Like the mag lads," said the bloke to us in the office's local pub, "but why don't you test secondhand bikes? Not all of us can afford the new stuff you're always on about." And he had a point. So in the interests of research I asked him how much
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Used Review: Honda VTR1000 SP-1 & SP-2
By Bertie Simmonds on 05/08/2008 22:16:35
Designed to take on and beat the Ducatis in WSB, the SP-1 and SP-2 did just that. But how does it fare in the more cut-throat world of used sales? Bertie Simmonds finds out.
996. It was cheaper though, being under £10K. It won WSB first time out with Colin Edwards, but on the road this thing had more snatch than a porn library and was almost as hairy if you gave it a handful.Thankfully new injector bodies on the SP-2 gave
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Road Test: RS v Raptor v GPR v CBR v Van Van v DT
By Luke Ponsford on 18/05/2008 22:46:39
You're young, dumb and flush with enough cash to fill your tank. Bike mad teens after a groovy 125 to cut their two-wheeled teeth on are spoiled for choice these days, so which to choose?
popular Cagiva Raptor.Ferret, who only passed his big bike test four months previously, had not enjoyed his time in the Yamaha DT's saddle. "The seat height is a bit of a problem for me," he complained. "It probably doesn't help that I'm new to all this
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Road Test: Kawasaki ZX-12R vs. Suzuki Hayabusa
By Warren Pole on 21/04/2008 22:31:36
For what we are about to recieve may the good Lord make us truly thankful because what we are about to receive is more speed than can possibly be good for you as we hop the channel with Suzuki's Hayabusa and Kawasaki's ZX-12
a hanging offence. Given these circumstances and the fact our roads are that congested even 70mph is ambitious half the time, bikes like this can exist solely for sad lads who need to compensate for their inadequacy between the sheets with a
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Road Test: Tuono v Duke v Brutale v Speed Triple
By Jon Urry on 27/04/2008 21:07:12
In search of naked satisfaction our lads strip down, strip off and head to the seediest street in Europe, Hamburg's Reeperbahn.
into bite-sized sections, a blessing on an unfaired bike. "That seat is so hard on the Triumph," reckoned Alex, "I've done 500km off-road in a day on the Dakar, so my arse is virtually made of leather, but this hurts!"Riding the MV I was also starting
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Road Test: CBR1100XX V ZX-12R V GSX1300R
By Warren Pole on 22/04/2008 19:14:21
Wozza, Gus and Tim head from London to Cannes in time for cocktails, so make it as fast as possible please, by Hayabusa, Blackbird and ZX-12R
got lost in the mountains around Cannes for a couple of days threw up three very different motorcycles. The Hayabusa was a heavy handful, quite frankly. Admittedly with the patchily wet roads and low temperatures (it was snowing at one point) any bike
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