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Best Biking Summer Holiday... France
By Ben Cope on 21/10/2010 11:04:34
Best-ever biking summer holiday to France so you can get some ideas for your own. You don’t have to spend thousands of pounds or be away from work for long
FRANCEName: Ben CopeBike: Honda Hornet 600Miles covered: 1,034Total cost: £620Pros: Glorious French roadsCons: Destroyed my bike!Youth, a Hornet 600 and the Cote D’Azur rally down to Le Mans sounds like the recipe for a memorable cross-Europe trip
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GSX-R series now added to Bike Reviews section
By Ben Cope on 01/02/2008 15:47:42
If you've owned one of the cult GSX-R series, you can review your bike on Visordown
Our bike reviews section has over 400 bikes and 200 reviews and I'm adding bikes daily.The most popular request by far was for the GSX-R series, so now they're in the system and you can review your model.I've got prizes to give away to the best
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Whitham rides the 2009 WSB bikes
By Ben Cope on 10/11/2009 13:00:16
We send Whit to Portimao to put the WSB bikes through their paces. Tough life for our Whit, hey?
- Page 1We sent James Whitham to Portiamo to test out the 2009 World Superbikes for Visordown magazine. Unfortunately, Suzuki didn't provide a bike and a Spanish journo stacked the Aprilia RSV4 before Whit got to sling a leg over it, but he did ride
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Forget the GS: Great adventure bikes for under £3000
By Ben Cope on 09/08/2011 15:27:59
If you want adventure thrills but you don't want to be another GSer, step inside
must start and end with BMW's GS; the bike has featured in so much media coverage, it's become as predictable as a Rolex on a banker's wrist or a footballer's Ferrari. The BMW crowd are a funny bunch at the best of times and it's hard to convince them
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Review: Road bike suspension setup by K-Tech
By Ben Cope on 15/07/2011 15:17:03
Does setting up the stock suspension really make a difference?
I'm a typical biker; I've got a bike that's capable of going fast, probably faster than I can ride it but I want to make it faster still. That's just how it is.With a few clicks on the internet I'm presented with hundreds of different options that I
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Freddie Spencer's '85 Honda NSR500 GP bike gallery
By Ben Cope on 18/06/2009 16:25:51
Honda's legendary GP500 won 8 out of 12 rounds of the World Championship, ridden by fast Freddie Spencer
1985 Honda NSR500 ... click pic to see galleryGP machines don't get much sexier than this Honda NSR500 from 1985.Winner of 8 out of 12 rounds in the 1985 500cc World Championship, the Honda NSR500 won both the Manufacturers' and Riders' Championships. Ridden by Freddie Spencer, t...
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Honda CTX200 vs. Lesotho
By Ben Cope on 19/04/2011 11:50:54
The toughest bike on the planet? Quite possibly.
across this mountainous and hugely under-developed country.The Riders chief mechanic ran us through the bike's main features; namely an engine and some wheels all connected by a robust steel chassis. Crash bars and a sump guard were welded into place
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Unravelling the Ducati Diavel
By Ben Cope on 03/03/2011 14:45:25
Concept sketches that allude to the bike's origins
to cut Ducati some slack because, well, it's Ducati - and they are a bit different.Seeing the bike in the flesh for the first time at the NEC Bike Show, I thought I'd understand it then but I still didn't. Sure, the bike got loads of attention from
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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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Get out and ride! £1000 motorcycles
By Ben Cope on 02/05/2012 18:08:44
Don't find excuses not to ride. Find an excuse to ride with these cheap reliable bikes
You love riding, but you don't want to ruin your pride and joy. So I've put together five bikes for under £1000 that cost peanuts to run, both in terms of fuel, maintenance and insurance. So here's your excuse to squeeze another bike in the garage
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