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First Ride: 2002 Kawasaki ZX-9R
By John Cantlie on 29/03/2008 16:54:04
And so to the 2002 ZX-9R, also tweaked for this year and feeling distinctly healthier for it. The motor feels the same, but the handling (once adjusted) is definitely better...
comfortable on the road, the Kawasaki lumbered confusedly around after the nimble 6R - not what we were expecting at all. Some major tweaking was needed.So we tweaked like buggery, and lo and behold if we didn't get the Big Blue Bus handling pretty damn well
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Indian Takeaway - Enduro India
By John Cantlie on 29/06/2005 12:46:44
If you need a break from the drudgery of working life, if you want to ride a bike in a place where traffic laws are non-existent and you can do pretty much whatever you want, well, you need to go to India
themselves at you seemingly without regard for human life or the most basic of traffic laws. It is perfectly normal to see a car overtaking a taxi overtaking a bus on a single-lane road.U-turns are performed without warning, the use of indicators is deeply
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Living with a 2009 BMW R1200GS Adventure
By John Cantlie on 23/05/2009 11:02:50
John Cantlie's long term impressions of the BMW R1200GS Adventure
’t need anyTOTAL MILEAGE: 3,395MILEAGE THIS MONTH: 1,522COSTS THIS MONTH: £268 of fuelVALUE NOW: £9,495August 2009Great balls of fire – the Battle Bus went wrong this month. In 25,000 miles of Adventure ownership (last year and this year combined) it
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Road Test: KTM 950SM V BMW R1200GS Adventure
By John Cantlie on 13/04/2008 13:42:48
Are these the two best Sportsbikes in the world? KTM’s 950sm and BMW’s seminal R1200GS adventure are ripping up the rule book and re-inventing the way we should ride.
be taking it easy or catching a bus home, thank you very much. It’s no word of a lie that this is the bike pretty much everyone who’s riding a Japanese superbike should really be on, if only they had the courage to make the swap. The SM will actually teach
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