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First Ride: 2006 Ducati GT1000
By Alex Hearn on 22/09/2010 11:10:10
Ducati's Sport Classics are retro cool but about as comfortable as an Indian bus ride. Now, with added comfort, comes the GT1000.
than 70mph with harsh suspension and aggressive clip-ons.So not a bike for a casual ride, then. Oh no. I know, because I was going to hoof mine 500 miles from where I was in France to the Ducati plant in Bologna on some sort of dewey-eyed romantic road
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2011 Triumph 1050 Sprint GT road test review
By Mark Forsyth on 11/08/2010 10:19:29
More powerful (but a bit too revvy), longer wheelbase with single-sided swingarm, very stable, geared more for touring than its predecessor and overall a very decent tour bus
-end is clean you get the sensation when riding it that everything is loaded in the middle to upper reaches of the power curve. This is fine in the leggy top gear (7% taller) when road conditions allow 90-plus riding, but below this you find yourself shifting
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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...
wanted something less mental and more useable on the road.Not to say it ain't fast. The Nine has always topped-out north of 170, and the latest model will be knocking on the door of 180mph in the right conditions. We only got to ride the bike on the track
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What The Press Say: Kawasaki Versys 1000 reviews
By Visordown on 02/12/2011 10:37:15
Kawasaki add to the Versys range with a new 1000cc older brother, here's what the British press made of it
Here's what the British motorcycling press said in their 2012 Kawasaki Versys 1000 reviews:"Unlike the ZX-10R, Z/SX riding experience, though, there was something lacking in terms of the riding experience. I felt. Nothing really stood out as being
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First Ride: Victory Cross Country review
By Andy Stevens on 10/06/2011 10:49:28
A luxurious trip to a café in Dungeness
with this particular model. The screen is low enough so as to give you an uninterrupted view of the road but unfortunately it produces huge amounts of air turbulence. I’ve chosen to put this point to one side though because other than that the Victory Cross Country
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First Ride: Aprilia Shiver SL750
By Kevin Ash on 17/08/2008 21:25:09
At last Aprilia have arrived with a middleweight. Laden with high-tech features and cutting edge styling. Only it's 750cc. And £5600. You have to ask, is this cheating?
Golf then.The biggest pain with riding a prototype was a more pragmatic one: it wasn't road registered, so Aprilia blagged the Fiat group's vast test centre at Bellaco, west of Milan - ideal aside from an understandable car bias manifested as Armco
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First Ride: 2007 Aprilia Shiver
By Kev Ash on 18/03/2008 20:35:12
The spitting image of Donald Sutherland in bad light, Kev Ash reports back on Aprilia's 750cc Shiver
with riding a prototype was a more pragmatic one: it wasn't road registered, so Aprilia blagged the Fiat group's vast test centre at Bellaco, west of Milan - ideal aside from an understandable car bias manifested as Armco lining every metre of road on both
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Road Test: MZ 1000SF
By Warren Pole on 29/04/2008 21:01:23
The East Germans strip off in the name of freedom and liberate a thumping good naked bike from beneath the wraps of their less exciting 1000S
and getting a bus home.Burbling back across London a couple of thoughts struck me. Firstly, this is really a rather good-looking motorcycle, and is certainly a vast improvement on the 1000S it's been hewn from. Secondly, the nosecone is that far away it
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First Ride - Suzuki DR125SM
By Visordown on 07/09/2009 15:56:41
Suzuki’s latest 125 is a street-smart supermoto, ready to do battle with the urban rat race at a sedate pace.
Click to read: Suzuki DR125 SM owners reviews, Suzuki DR125 SM specs and to see the Suzuki DR125 SM image gallery.We older more experienced types should envy those getting their first leg up onto the biking ladder. For them the buzz of it all has
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First Ride: 2007 Triumph Speed Triple
By Jon Urry on 02/04/2008 17:44:21
With £2,000 taken out of the Daytona 675's price tag is Triumph's Street Triple the bargain sportsbike of 2007? Or have the boys from Hinckley cut corners on their new middleweight triple...
I've been waiting to ride Triumph's Street Triple for about two years, ever since the Daytona 675 was launched. When I first saw that bike I emailed the guys at Triumph and asked if I could get one of them, strip its fairing off and fit a set
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