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Countryphiles: Honda CBF600S, Kawasaki ER-6f, Yamaha XJ6 Diversion, Suzuki GSX650F
By John Cantlie on 27/07/2010 11:56:42
The commuter motorcycle has grown up and turned into a proper bike in its own right. We took them out of their natural element of city streets for a damn good thrashing on country roads
Getting from A to B on a bike designed solely to get from A to B as cheaply as possible used to be a rather wretched affair. Such bikes were, quite frankly, built down to a price, plasticky, slow, handled like shopping trollies and looked crap. They would do the job adequately bu...
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Feed the habit: Living with the Ducati 1098R
By John Cantlie on 29/06/2010 10:55:25
Ducati’s hand-made and deliciously savage 1098R is unashamedly brutal, it takes no prisoners and makes no excuses. We lived with the £26k masterpiece for three weeks to find out if you can really live with such excess
-world - a Honda CBF600 is a much better bet day-to-day? To find out, I lived, slept, ate and breathed the 1098R for three weeks, using it as my sole form of transport. This is what is was like.Read on for more on the experience living with the Ducati 1098R
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