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Half Price Sale: £5k used sportsbikes
By Jon Urry on 13/08/2010 10:49:09
With new litre sportsbikes costing upwards of £10,000 the used market is booming. But at £5k are these bikes half the performance as well as half the price?
At the moment secondhand dealers are crying out for stock and decent used sportsbikes are the most sought after commodity. The astronomical cost of buying a brand new sportsbike, not to mention the fear of being locked into a potentially tricky
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BMW HP2 Sport first ride review
By Jon Urry on 04/05/2010 14:25:42
Is BMW’s HP2 Sport the ultimate Boxer, or just an over-priced showman? We spent a day on the road with the £15,000 BMW that floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee
until that point it won’t allow you access to full power for fear of harming the engine.Click next to continue
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Acquired Taste - tourers test
By Jon Urry on 11/09/2008 17:15:12
A weekend of wine tasting on bikes that represent the more refined side of life. We explore France's Loire Valley from the comfort of three ultimate touring machines
K1200LT.But just 200 miles into France it so nearly all went wrong. Flashing on the GoldWing's LCD display was a warning that strikes fear into any hardened tourer. Three words that spell potential disaster: 'CD Multichange Error'. A wave of panic
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Splitting Heirs: Ducati 998 v 1098
By Jon Urry on 19/01/2011 14:50:02
The Ducati 999 was just a stop-gap between the legendary 916 and the stunning new 1098. So for the first time ever, here are the two stablemates ridden head to head...
and the logo increased in numbers but the bike's silhouette remained identical.Then in 2002 the development reached its peak with what is, for me at least, the ultimate road going 916: the 998R. Only 700 were made worldwide and of that the UK's allocation
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First Ride: 2006 Kawasaki ER-6F
By Jon Urry on 12/05/2008 22:27:11
Less self-consciously 'funky' thank its unfaired sibling - but has Kawasaki's new twin got what it takes to beat Suzuki's SV650S?
WHEN WE TESTED the naked ER-6n a few months ago it proved a real surprise. On paper the parallel twin motor, wilfully odd looks and curious paint combinations seemed unpromising. But, basic though it was, the ER-6n's feisty character charmed
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Road Test: BMW K1200LT vs. H-D FLHTC vs. Goldwing
By Jon Urry on 22/04/2008 22:00:32
A weekend of wine tasting on bikes that represent the more refined side of life. We explore France's Loire Valley from the comfort of three ultimate touring machines.
K1200LT.But just 200 miles into France it so nearly all went wrong. Flashing on the GoldWing's LCD display was a warning that strikes fear into any hardened tourer. Three words that spell potential disaster: 'CD Multichange Error'. A wave of panic
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Best of British
By Jon Urry on 01/03/2007 23:36:25
There are still a few bulldogs out there, bearing their teeth at the foreign hordes. Let's celebrate all things British with a little help from two of our own musical legends. Pip pip and tally ho!
other bike on the road. No, on the Triumph you sit back and enjoy the ride.And it's not a bad ride at all. Yes, the engine is a mite disappointing, but only if you've ridden a modern bike or you want to go fast; for the back-road amble it has more than
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Road Test: Tornado RS V Ducati 999S V MV F4 1000
By Jon Urry, Tim Cummings on 13/04/2008 13:21:13
Once the preserve of the mega rich, these first-generation Italian superbikes can now be snapped up for less than the cost of a new sports 600. Here’s the deal.
Superbike titles on what is essentially a modified road bike wouldn’t mess up in such a catastrophic fashion when it came to a key model. And they didn’t.To ride the 999s is sublime. The bike is incredible slender to sit on, so much so that it feels like
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Road Test: Supersport Superstars
By Jon Urry, Niall Mackenzie, James Whitham on 24/04/2008 18:56:19
How do you split five of the best supersport machines ever made? It's not easy, but using two of the UK's most successful and experienced racers, a Spanish race track and a day's riding on dry mountain roads is certainly a good start...
Sitting in a Spanish bar following two days of testing the new breed of 600s on both the track and road, we still haven't come to a conclusion. There are two pressing questions. First, who is our favourite film star and secondly, which is the best
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