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The End of Trackdays?
By Mike Peake on 18/03/2009 10:49:24
Soaring costs, endless red-tape and now a new peril – an American-style suing culture – are taking their toll on the British motorcyclist’s greatest escape…
on the road,” says Kevin Healy of Focused Events, one of the biggest trackday organisers and with over 10 years in operation. “It can be a dangerous activity and riders choose to put themselves there. You simply can’t have your cake and eat it.”Kevin admits
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Road Test: Kawasaki ZX-12R vs. Suzuki Hayabusa
By Warren Pole on 21/04/2008 22:31:36
For what we are about to recieve may the good Lord make us truly thankful because what we are about to receive is more speed than can possibly be good for you as we hop the channel with Suzuki's Hayabusa and Kawasaki's ZX-12
gear, but bloody hell is it nice to have the option.After all, this is a free country and this pair the best expression of our freedom of choice. So exercise your right. Choose warp-speed travel, choose demolishing vast stretches of open road at three
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First Ride: Honda CBR600RR (2007)
By Niall Mackenzie on 02/04/2008 11:42:59
Yamaha won the supersport 600 sales war in 2006, and Honda is out for revenge. They think the all-new CBR600RR is the tool for the job, and Niall Mackenzie reckons they might be right.
CBR for 2007.But Honda haven't done anything radical, choosing instead to rework the current CBR in to make it the very best on road and track.While sports 600 machines, even standard ones, can lap tracks incredibly quickly, recently the Japanese have
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Learning to ride a motorcycle: Choosing the right bike
By Ben Cope on 28/07/2011 17:46:42
Whether you're after a sports bike, commuter, naked, adventure or scoooter. Find out the best first bike to buy...
luggage carrying capacity and a good turn of speed, in the right hands. What’s more, the Suuzki’s fuel-injected 650cc V-twin engine is one of the sweetest motors Suzuki have ever produced.Honda Deauville 650 £1500 - £4500The Deauville is the perfect first
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Niall's Spin: Honda CBR1100XX Super Blackbird
By Niall Mackenzie on 21/09/2010 12:19:16
Honda's trusty supersports tourer, loved by thousands, but what does Mackenzie make of it?
's slick, polished Blackbird remains the best supersports tourer 10 years after being introduced. And what's more it was so right from the beginning, with only minimal changes to the original spec along the way.The Blackbird takes virtually anything in its
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Mike Scott Column - Jan 2005
By Mike Scott on 01/01/2005 14:26:43
Where did Honda go wrong?
at the top?That Repsol contract. Barros sells petrol in Brazil, and to Honda's lasting cost Repsol has the right to choose the rider.Honda's plan for next year is to put Biaggi on the top bike. But Biaggi against Rossi? That's only ever gone one way
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HRC want Dovizioso at LCR Honda
By Visordown News on 01/09/2011 09:29:39
Final decision to be made in 2-3 weeks
the necessary updates."Reportedly one of the reasons why Honda have overlooked Dovi for a factory bike and chosen SuperSic is that they believe the former has plateaued whereas the hairy-one is still on the rise. Have they made the right decision?
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Tested: Yamaha XT660R
By Andy Stevens on 11/04/2012 14:52:30
Can you really have the best of both worlds?
The grass is always greener right? Or perhaps in the words of my less monogamous mates, “you can have the best of both worlds”.The world of biking is full of compromise and a fair amount of banter and debate is shared between my mates and I because
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Road Test: RS v Raptor v GPR v CBR v Van Van v DT
By Luke Ponsford on 18/05/2008 22:46:39
You're young, dumb and flush with enough cash to fill your tank. Bike mad teens after a groovy 125 to cut their two-wheeled teeth on are spoiled for choice these days, so which to choose?
You're young, dumb and flush with enough cash to fill your tank. Bike mad teens after a groovy 125 to cut their two-wheeled teeth on are spoiled for choice these days, so which to choose? TWO's forever young testers relive the teenage dream on a
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Michelin Power One - Full range report
By Visordown News on 06/04/2009 12:03:10
Rob Hoyles fires back his synopsis of Michelin's latest from Portimao
is arguably the most exciting tyre in the Power One as it features an asymmetric design that means the tyre can be run in either direction. But that’s not the clever bit. The clever bit is that after detailed research into over 30 tracks around the world
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