The face of motorcycling may be changing, and bikes like Yamaha's TDM900, Suzuki's V-Strom and Triumph's Tiger might - in the near future - be not only useful, usable bikes but also desirable pieces of hardware. So just what is going on in the once

paddock as I tried to put a Kit Kat and a packet of cheese and onion crisps in my rucksack.All self inflicted, I hear you say, except maybe the falling over one, which was definitely due to this particular Bee Emm being the tallest road bike I've ever sat

to the road is that the majority of other road users and pedestrians are looking at you as you pass, mostly with a look of bewilderment. The Vision is a big bike. At nine feet long and 370kgs dry, it’s twice as heavy and a good two feet longer than an R6

been massively popular following its revamp two years ago. In fact so popular that 50,000 have been sold worldwide, more than half of them in Europe. Even so, the standard R1 has itself been revised for 2006, though the only significant changes

Click to read: MV Agusta F4 1000R owners reviews, MV Agusta F4 1000R specs and to see the MV Agusta F4 1000R image gallery.Claudio Castiglioni, big boss of MV Agusta, would like to put everyone's minds at rest regarding the future of MV Agusta. During the Misano launch of the MV ...

and driving licence. I'm scared.Another officer writes something down. It says '60kph', which I assume is the speed limit, '120kph', my speed, and '100 Euros'.I take out the money but the policeman won't accept it. He's pointing down the road and getting

gear changing questioned your masculinity. The Hondamatic failed to appeal to rough tough ’70s bikers who liked their gearboxes full of gears, their gear changes manual and their clutch levers present and correct.Hondamatic fizzled out in 1983, after

Fashions change at a phenomenal rate. Cast an eye over a woman’s magazine (alongside my piles of bike mags I like to keep abreast of things with Closer and Glamour) and what was hot last month is now just polishing rags under the sink. And don

it was called Belgarda Yamaha - it's now called Yamaha Motor Italy - explained that the bike was just as it finished the last race at Magny Cours, except for new Pirelli tyres and the final drive ratio changed (that's changing the sprockets to you and me

flagged by nervous Kawasaki staff wanting to keep their bikes in one piece.So instead the surrounding quiet but challenging roads were where we put the much-changed middleweight Kawasaki through its paces. Waiting for the rain to clear gave me a good