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First Ride: 2006 Cagiva Raptor 650
By Jon Urry on 22/09/2010 11:00:00
Italian style meets Japanese functionality as Suzuki donates its new SV650 engine to Cagiva's aggressively-styled naked tool.
Click to read: Cagiva Raptor 650 owners reviews, Cagiva Raptor 650 specs and to see the Cagiva Raptor 650 image gallery.TO BE TRUTHFUL I was quite surprised when the phone call came in asking if we wanted to test the Raptor 650. It's not that often you see them on the road and, w...
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First Ride: 2008 Triumph Street Triple R
By Jon Urry on 10/11/2008 11:15:24
The Street Triple is already Triumph's best selling bike ever, but will this hotted-up version cause more sales to flood in?
stands if you try and order one in white or black, the most popular colours, it should arrive sometime in January, perfect timing to enjoy those freezing UK roads while the salt eats away at anything metallic. Want it a bit sooner? Well, if your choice
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First Ride: 2007 Aprilia Tuono Factory
By Jon Urry on 02/04/2008 10:37:47
The original naked bad boy gets some extra bling and even more fire in its belly. Jon Urry braves an Italian hill climb course on the new Tuono Factory.
They say: "For five years we've had a lap timer on Aprilias, and still no one knows how to use them" We say: "Look, it's got a lap timer! How does it work?" Jon Urrybullock, for those who aren't from farming stock, is a cow that has its balls cut
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Road Test: Triumph Speed Triple
By Jon Urry on 27/04/2008 20:16:18
It's the best looking bike of the year bar none. But is Triumph's new Speed Triple all show and no go? Urry heads south to find out.
to get the chance. About 15 of the new bikes are lined up outside our hotel in the south of France the next morning, in a variety of costumes. There are the three colour options, yellow (although it's more of a goldy-yellow), metallic blue and black
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KTM Duke VS Kawasaki ER-6n
By Jon Urry on 21/08/2008 13:16:43
The KTM690 Duke and Kawasaki’s ER-6n have plummeted out of the ugly tree, clattering every branch along the way. is that all?
insane. From the angular RC8 to the mean, yet purposeful, 990 Adventure every bike from the Austrian manufacturer has its own unique style, matched to the clean, yet vibrant choice of colours. Orange or white for show, black for mean and moody. The 690
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First Ride: 2006 Yamaha FJR1300 A-AS
By Jon Urry on 22/09/2010 12:00:00
For once a missing clutch lever doesn't indicate a low speed spill. We ride the FJR1300AS, featuring Yamaha's latest piece of electronic gadgetry.
and ABS as standard, not to mention colour coded panniers, but for £1000 more the AS has the YCC-S shifiting system and heated grips.That aside, what's changed for 2006? The FJR gets a heap more adjustability. The bars have three different positions
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Splitting heirs - Kawasaki ZX-10R V ZX-10R
By Jon Urry on 20/03/2008 15:36:50
It was the maddest 1,000cc superbike in the world, then they tamed it. TWO rides both incarnations of the Kawasaki ZX-10R back to back...
) and Suzuki's GSX-R1000. The old ZX-9R didn't stand a chance against this new breed of 1000s, each boasting in excess of 150bhp, but the ZX-10R was a whole new kettle of sushi. Kawasaki was back, and back with a vivid green coloured beast of a bike
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First Ride: 2006 Aprilia RSV-R
By Jon Urry on 20/09/2010 22:46:53
A re-jig to pass tough emissions tests or significant go-faster modifications? Urry tests the new RSV-R and RSV-R Factory
in gold. Oh yes, the frame is now gold-coloured too. How could I forget that?Fairly high specifications as standard, then. So what's the cost? The RSV-R is £8999 on the road and Factory £10,349. Sounds good value to me, especially when, for the price of a
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Advanced Riding Course: Wet Weather Rain Tips
By Jon Urry on 03/11/2008 13:34:33
Advanced riding tips to help you improve your wet weather motorcycle riding skills
'll find the roughest, grippiest tarmac in the middle of the road where the cars don't wear it down, while slick, shiny stuff is as slippy as ice. Junctions and corners with Shellgrip (the light-coloured tacky stuff) is as grippy as normal tarmac in the dry
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Road test: Aprilia Tuono vs. Triumph Speed Triple
By Jon Urry on 19/12/2008 12:28:04
Last year Aprilia's Tuono and Triumph's Speed Triple topped the street bike sales charts in the UK. What makes these bikes catch rider's imaginations
is where the Japanese struggle.Last year in the UK despite Kawasaki launching the new Z1000, Suzuki the B-King and Yamaha refreshing the look of the FZ1 with more aggressive colours, the top selling street bikes were Triumph’s Speed Triple and Aprilia
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