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Hogan's Heroes: Motocross
By John Hogan on 29/11/2010 15:21:22
It's been a while since Hogan's been subjected to some proper field discipline. Time to go motocrossing with Avago MX
MotocrossPreconception: motocross is for young extreme athletesReality: motocross is for young extreme athletesWhat I learned: I'm not young any more, or an athleteMotocross: the motor sport of choice for legends and lunatics the world over. The basic principle (I think) is to fi...
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Hogan's Heroes: Flat Track
By John Hogan on 29/11/2009 14:07:55
John Hogan sees if Flat Track really is as cool as it looks. Even if you're rubbish at it
Mission #9 CCM flat track school Preconception: Flat track is coolReality: Flat track is cool What I learned: I'm no Jay SpringsteenWhen it comes to activities that could result in personal injury, I have a fail-safe rule. I get my wife to watch whatever it is for a couple of m...
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First Ride: 2008 BMW HP2 Sport
By John Hogan on 17/02/2008 14:09:52
BMW finally go for the jugular with their most focused sportsbike ever. It looks stunning and sounds glorious, but does it have any teeth?
Nobody is releasing more new models at the minute than BMW. They are making no bones about the fact that they don’t like the image, perceived or otherwise, that BMW owners are older, wiser and usually richer than the average bike buyer. Who can blame them?If you managed to make i...
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First Ride: 2007 Kawasaki Z750
By John Hogan on 02/04/2008 14:18:59
The Z750 quietly got on with being one of the best Kawasakis for years. Is the new model ready to kick more middleweight ass?
sniff though, because as a package the Z750 worked really well.While UK sales figures weren't great, since it's inception the has Z750 dominated roadtests against the competition. It even pushed the odd sports bike nose out of place on TWO's 2005 'King
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First Ride: 2007 Kawasaki Versys
By John Hogan on 02/04/2008 10:58:57
Fancy an ER-6 but find it a bit too small? The Versys offers relief. John Hogan rides Kawasaki's lanky new 'any road' tool.
They say: "Like a surfer on a wave, we make each ride our own" KawasakiWe say: "Look at me mum! I'm doing a launch" John HoganThe Versys is an important bike for Kawasaki in terms of capitalising on the success of the ER-6 and increasing its share
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First Ride: 2007 Derbi Mulhacen
By John Hogan on 01/04/2008 22:39:10
"A Derbi Mull-who-son?" I queried. "It's pronounced Mull-hass-en," said Tim.
The Mulhacen is the result of a styling exercise gone public. Displayed at the 2004 Munich show the bike received a fantastic public reaction and won an award from the Motorcycle Design Association (MDA). This positive feedback was enough for Derbi to push it into production, tur...
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Traffic Light GP - motorcycle launch control
By John Hogan on 07/06/2009 12:26:46
We all do it. Even if we don’t admit it. Traffic light racing. Silly and purile maybe, but when another bikes lines up alongside and the lights turn green, you going to just let him go? How to do it. And the best bikes to do it on...
The traffic lighters...Steve Venables The best drag racer in the UK. Proper, proper quick off the lightsSimon Bowen Old hand at riding anything, quicker than he looks. And olderJohn Hogan Reasonably experienced, though not as quick as his boots suggest
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First ride: Moto Guzzi V7 Classic road test review
By John Hogan on 19/12/2008 10:57:14
The new Moto Guzzi V7 Classic could be the perfect bike if you are looking for a classic but don’t want to get your hands dirty.
The opening scene of the iconic movie the Italian Job has a song called ‘on days like these’ playing over it, and if you could play that song in the background while you read this launch report, that would be perfect.This was the tune I couldn’t shake out of my head as I rode the...
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Living with a 2009 Kawasaki ZX-6R
By John Stevens and Andy Hogan on 23/01/2010 11:07:58
Andy Hogan and John Stevens share a 2009 Kawasaki ZX-6R for a year. Here's their review
small, light and fast they areThe term ‘dead man’s shoes’ springs to mind this month. With John Hogan, our resident funny man and all round nice bloke, leaving Visordown and absconding to Aprilia to manage their press activities, the keys to his ZX-6R
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The story behind the revamped 2008 Hayabusa
By John Hogan on 21/06/2010 11:43:44
After nine years waiting, Suzuki unveiled their all-new Hayabusa in 2008. Promising 198bhp and the fastest acceleration of any production superbike, we spoke to the team of people who put it together
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 that, and so the new model
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