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Chalk & Cheese, Niall & Whit, Triumph Street Triple R & BMW F800R
By Niall Mackenzie on 21/07/2010 15:55:36
Triumph’s riotous Street Triple R is the benchmark middleweight street bike, a bike so alive with character it’s arrival left big street bikes looking a little redundant. How does BMW’s new F800R compare?
Street Triple?Until this test I was one of the few journalists that hadn’t spent a great deal of time with a Street Triple R but I must say I’d only ever heard and read enthusiastic reports. I’m also told that, even if you have the money, they
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Euro Exotica - BMW S1000RR, Ducati 1098 Bayliss, Aprilia RSV4 Factory and MV Agusta F4
By Mark Forsyth on 24/06/2010 16:20:19
A warm, dry Mallory Park Focused Events track day, James Whitham, the four best bikes produced in Europe and a data logger. Let’s get busy…
. Against the MV, Ducati and BMW the gorgeous looking ’Priller has an obvious Achilles heel. No Traction Control. TC may have ruined modern racing but for an enthusiastic nobber like myself, with 180bhp on tap it’s just such a massive safety blanket. It’s a
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Enduro India - What's it all about?
By Simon Bowen on 29/11/2010 11:41:14
After five successful years, is Enduro India finally getting a case of Delhi belly or is it still vindaloo strength?
compensation as there is normally someone or something coming towards you head-on. You soon learn that the only workable system is one based on vehicle size and enthusiastic use of the horn. ‘Might is Right’ forms the content of the Highway Code in India
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The Professionals: Jonathan Palmer
By Visordown on 22/10/2010 11:01:24
Jonathan Palmer owns MotorsportVision and most of the racing circuits in the uk. He's very important in our little world of motorsport
, there’s more of them, they’re more knowledgeable, more opinionated and just so enthusiastic. I really enjoy walking around during an event and chatting to spectators, it’s nice when they know my name and tell me that they like the improvements
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Living with a 2008 Ducati Monster 696
By James Whitham on 23/11/2008 10:37:02
James Whitham's review of the Ducati Monster 696. What's it like to live with?
-stop since my last update, mostly I have to say with my over-suit on in the pissing rain such has been our summer, and a strange thing has happened. Mostly when I get a new bike, or any other toy for that matter, I’m dead enthusiastic about it for a bit
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The Reality of racing – Josh Wainwright
By Josh Wainwright on 18/02/2008 10:58:09
17 year-old Josh Wainwright is racing the hard way. sometimes you have to sacrifice everything in life for the chance of going all the way...
Winnebago, but he sold it this year to buy me an R6. He doesn’t really get anything out of supporting me, he’s just enthusiastic about me racing. Both him and my dad love it. All year they just work, work, work to fund our racing. Then after racing stops
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Bike Icon: Suzuki GSX-R1100
By Stuart Barker on 08/10/2010 13:11:59
Like a nightclub bouncer ripped to the tits on bodybuilding steroids, the big Suzuki was not to be messed with. Unless you were rock hard...
the needs of even the most extreme riders which is why it's still so popular with stunt riders and enthusiasts today.Suzuki had already redefined the 750cc Superbike class with the launch of the GSX-R750 in 1985 but one year later the firm followed the more
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2009 Most Important...Aprilia RSV4 Factory
By Rob Hoyles on 18/10/2009 16:41:53
Few bikes have ever come as close to living up to the ‘Factory’ tag as this Noale nut-job. Expensive, hard to ride slowly, unruly on the road but totally in its element on a track – it’s just got to be the best bike of the year
at the machined top yoke gripping those beautiful Öhlins forks, the needle on the centrally-mounted rev-counter enthusiastically sweeping in time with the deep growl from the large, angular exhaust silencer lets you know something special is happening before you
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2009 Most Important...Triumph Street Triple R
By Rob Hoyles on 18/10/2009 16:48:17
The term ‘all-rounder’ is usually associated with the phrase ‘lose the will to live’. But this machine is very different. That’s because it’s very good
and massive ground clearance just encouraged me to ride faster with every lap.This was much to my mate’s obvious consternation as he hung over the pit wall, wildly gesturing for me to pull in having seen enthusiastic use of the throttle and kerbs once too
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First Ride: 2008 Suzuki GSX650F
By Jon Bentman on 17/02/2008 15:39:35
Just a Bandit with a full fairing? Jon Bentman flies to France and discovers the new GSX650F is a bike that’s much greater than the sum of its parts
it was a case of mission accomplished.It feels more than just a little awkward to be so enthusiastic about the GSX650F. It is, after all, little more than a Bandit 650 with a full fairing and some minor tweaks. And seeing as it’s only making a claimed 85bhp
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