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First Ride: 2002 Harley-Davidson VRSCA V-Rod review
By Bertie Simmonds on 27/03/2008 21:03:21
Harley-Davidson unleash their most important model for 50 years. With a watercooled, 115bhp, 60¡ V-twin motor straight out of their VR1000 racebike, it marks the start of a new direction for the Milwaukee firm. This is big.
wheel, above which the highly stylized radiator and oil cooler sits...Oh sod it.Continue the Harley-Davidson VRSCA V-Rod review page 2/3
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Road Test: I am not a number
By Bertie Simmonds on 19/04/2008 22:21:20
If only bikes were available on prescription to combat the misery of the Great British Winter
1800 GoldWing and the Harley-Davidson Electra-Glide Ultra Classic.As I slithered home up the wet and uninviting M25 and M1 on the BMW, I was a little alarmed. The front end of just felt so vague. Hit raised white lines, overbanding or the odd rut
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Honda DN-01 first ride review
By Bertie Simmonds on 26/04/2010 11:27:08
Is this what Judge Dredd will ride when he’s given up police work and gone utterly soft in his old age?
to perform too: think Harley-Davidson V-Rod, or Suzuki M1800. Instead Honda gives this aesthetically amazing machine a lump, which lacks character and plain old ‘ooomph’ to be remotely considered ‘performance.’Click next to continue
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Icon: Che Guevara
By Bertie Simmonds on 22/10/2010 16:52:09
A political icon from the Swinging 60s and owner of the second most famous beret in the world (after Frank Spencer's) it's little known that Che was a very keen motorcyclist and biking author. Good on him...
's minister of industry in 1961-65 following Castro's take over of Cuba in 1959. Bored of Government, he left Cuba in 1965 to foster revolution abroad and came unstuck in the jungles of Bolivia in 1967, when he was wounded, captured and then executed
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First Ride: 2001 Honda VTX1800
By Bertie Simmonds on 29/03/2008 13:12:58
There's a low, mean burbling coming from somewhere near my pants as my posterior is pummeled by a searing wave of torque. God, can you believe I've just written such tosh?
Reading it back, It all sounds so pants... but just how do you put into words the following two BIG figures... 1,795cc and 115 ft/lb of torque? Instead, hop on and come for a ride.We're cruising at an altitude of 693mm (all shorties welcome
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Living with a 2001 Honda CBR929RR Fireblade
By Bertie Simmonds on 26/04/2002 10:59:44
Former TWO magazine editor, Bertie Simmonds, talks about his experience of owning a Honda CBR929RR Fireblade
your right hand. It's up to you how hard you twist it, as to which side of the Blade's character you see.So far with more than 2,000 miles showing, I've left the mean side to others, as mad racer John McGuinness et al took my precious Blade to the Isle
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