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Derbi GPR 125 first ride review
By John Hogan on 12/04/2010 17:18:33
Two strokes are dead, live with it. We try on the new 125 four-banger from bijou biking kings Derbi
pretenders. Banging down two gears and peeling in for the first turn at Barcelona’s Motorparc circuit, the GPR was doing anything but pretend. Knee deep in tarmac with every single one of the fifteen frothing horses available being strangled to within an inch
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Hogan's Heroes: Track Virgin
By John Hogan on 31/10/2007 14:44:31
Mission 4: Pop track cherry
and using all of the available Tarmac70mph may seem mundane stuck on the M1, but while getting your knee down for the first time it suddenly means a lot more and feels way faster. I popped my track cherry at Cartagena on a novice training school with www
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Hogan's Heroes: Trackday virgin
By John Hogan on 01/06/2006 13:36:35
Mission 4: Pop Track Cherry
all of the available Tarmac70mph may seem mundane stuck on the M1, but while getting your knee down for the first time it suddenly means a lot more and feels way faster.I popped my track cherry at Cartagena on a novice training school with www
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Ducati Desmosedici RR road test
By John Hogan on 12/07/2010 10:09:05
One of the MotoGP gods from the 990 era, the Ducati Desmosedici has been transplanted to a road-going and is now terrifying regular riders
scary. Not like the Ducati. The RR triggers a nervous excitement, like counting down to Christmas. In the run up to D-Day the red menace is, without fail, the first thought that popped into my head.When the big day finally arrives, things get worse
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The Great Field Bike Challenge
By John Hogan on 07/09/2009 16:53:14
For less than £200 you can buy a field bike. Now convince five mates to do the same and have the best afternoon’s racing of your life. Re-discover the reason you got into bikes in the first place for less than the price of a night out in London . .
and Barry’s bikes didn’t bloody work.JOHN HOGANBike: 1992 Kawasaki KH125Price paid: £150Where from: D&KCondition: Not badIt started first kick when I dragged it out of the van. The lads were impressed: I had bagged a real contender, complete with Renthal
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Riding the Weston Beach Race
By John Hogan on 06/01/2007 10:51:36
The Weston Beach Race is gnarly. Always cold and wet, it's three miles of knee-deep sand and 1000 dirt bike loons. For three hours. Hogan the Innocent thought he stood a chance...
down. I sail over the top of Weston's very first dune doing a 20mph star jump. The bike lands on me and we roll to the bottom on the other side.It would seem that Tim bit off more than I could chew when he entered me in the Weston beach race, a three
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V.Far V-Four: 1000 miles on the Honda VFR1200F
By John Hogan on 04/08/2010 15:20:53
We’ve ridden the VFR1200F a thousand miles on typical UK roads in typical UK weather. Snow, rain, freezing fog and temperatures of barely more than zero answer one question. How real-world-good is the new VFR?
. In an ideal world Mark Forsyth’s first eyewitness account of my riding should have happened last year, I would have been on the back wheel of a B-King and he would have been kerbside, nodding his head giving me a cheery wave as I sailed past, he’d have been
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Be a Track Day Instructor
By John Hogan on 21/04/2010 16:57:33
Those that can, do; those that can’t, teach. Except for John Hogan, who just pretends. Can he convince a bunch of track virgins he’s an instructor with the Ron Haslam Race School?
riding but I’m certainly no racer.So if you were to pitch up at a trackday for the first time, looking for somebody to guide you round, the last person you’d expect to see is me. Jesus, the last place I’d expect to find myself on a trackday is welcoming
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2008 Suzuki GSX-R1300 Hayabusa
By John Hogan on 27/03/2008 11:20:21
After nine years waiting , Suzuki finally unveil their all-new Hayabusa. Promising 198bhp and the fastest acceleration of any production superbike, we spoke to the team of people who put it together...
for this model, especially in America. The US market for the Hayabusa has been incredibly strong and in fact last year sales were one and a half times more than that of when we first launched in 1998. Our expectation is that there's an even bigger demand than
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The White Helmets motorcycle display team
By John Hogan on 22/10/2010 11:37:08
The White Helmets display team have been entertaining kids at military tattoos for over 90 years. But in this day of psycho freestylers aren’t they just relics, a total anachronism?
on their motorbikes.20 years have since passed and I’m stood on the side of a windswept runway in Cornwall, watching the Royal Signals White Helmets display team running through a routine. I shouldn’t be impressed, I’ve stood in dinner queues for longer than some
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