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First Ride: 2006 BMW R1200R
By Tim Dickson on 01/04/2008 22:26:08
Another new Boxer hits the road. On looks alone this one won't set the world on fire, but surprise, surprise, it's quite good fun.
with a punchier 1200cc (1170cc, actually) motor. And here, completing the set, is the R1200R, replacement for the staid but enduring R1150R.In the non-German bike world, 1200ccs, no bodywork and high bars shouts 'naked'; in BMW's it's a 'roadster
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10 minutes with Steve Linsdell
By Tim Dickson on 20/04/2008 16:57:20
More than 20 years in the bike trade as owner of Flitwick Motorcycles and a veteran TT campaigner on some seriously oddball bikes, Steve Linsdell tells us how it is, was, and still could be
also did a six-hour endurance race, some club races, then we sold it to a despatch rider. The last we saw of it, it had 92,000 miles on the clock.I ran a 955i Daytona in 2002 in the Production TT. It was okay, but with things like GSX-R1000s and R1s out
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Living with a 2005 GSX-R1000 K5
By Tim Dickson on 15/07/2005 12:24:27
The vert thorough Tim Dickson five the mighty GSX-R1000 a year-long review. What's it like to live with?
6-11,000rpm, then gains a couple of bhp at the top with the motor feeling crisper and freer-revving. Baffle out it's ahead from 5000rpm to the limiter, making nearly 10bhp more at the top with a healthy 5bhp boost across the midrange. Nice to have
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Living with a 2004 Yamaha YZF-R6
By Tim Dickson on 15/06/2004 10:18:07
Tim proves that the Yamaha R6 can handle the tracks, the commute and life as a tourer
knew most of that already, but it was fun making sure.January 2005The R6's standard exhaust does the best it can but strangles the motor above 12,500rpm. Power drops off sharply after that, and there's little to be gained revving beyond 13,000 - that
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World In Motion
By Harriet Ridley, Alex Hearn, Tim Dickson on 23/02/2008 15:05:39
Travel by car and you're watching a movie. Travel by bike and you're in the movie. Which is reason enough in our book to hit the road for a touring holiday. The question is, how do you want to do it?
the ST1100 for four years until Honda brought out the linked model with ABS in 1996, so I bought that and ran it until 2002 when I got the new 1300.I tour with different people on different bikes and the truth is you can tour on anything. But bikes like
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