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First Ride: Moto Morini Corsaro
By Roland Brown on 29/04/2008 22:54:13
Shiver my timbers, it's a new Moto Morini. But will this pirate sail the high seas or walk the plank to Davey Jones' locker?
, high-level conical silencers. During the launch on the roads around Bologna there was never any chance of mistaking the Corsaro for a laid-back roadster. This is a mean naked machine that kicks out 90.7lb.ft of torque - well up on rivals such as MV
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First Ride: 2006 Yamaha Midnight Star
By Roland Brown on 13/05/2008 23:21:25
Packing the biggest and most powerful Yamaha cruiser engine yet, plus a bag of styling cues lifted from the 1930s, the Midnight Star is bristling with modern technology. It's even got an EXUP valve.
cruisers will be sold under the Star brand). Whatever the name, it's a cool-looking bike. There's a flavour of old cars like the Chrysler Airflow in the way the headlight flows into the tank with its three chromed lines on each side, and in details
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First Ride: Moto Guzzi Griso
By Roland Brown on 20/09/2010 21:15:07
Better-looking than the concept bike that spawned it, Guzzi's bruiser is sportier than you'd think - so much so that our man nearly had a 'wardrobe malfunction'.
the Swiss border and high enough in the Alpine foothills for the autumn air to be distinctly chilly) I had second thoughts. More to the point, I'd been cranking the big Guzzi through a string of hairpins at a rate I wouldn't have imagined possible before
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First Ride: KTM 950 Adventure
By Roland Brown on 14/09/2010 10:46:49
Light, punchy, fast and capable of genuine off-road excursions, the big new KTM rocks. But there are slight question marks over comfort and vibration
trying to ignore the steep drop waiting on the other side of the fence if I got it wrong. It was no surprise that the Adventure felt good in the nasty stuff. After all, KTM's first roadgoing V-twin is based on the 950 Rally on which Italian ace Fabrizio
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Road Test: MV Agusta Brutale 910
By Roland Brown on 29/04/2008 21:57:58
MV's bonkers Brutale gets a big bore motor, a midrange boost and bags of added usefulness to boot. Roland Brown blags a ride and spills the beans.
't guess that the two models were so different unless you'd ridden them, because visually they're almost identical. This chassis layout is unchanged from that of the 750's, so the steel-and-aluminium frame holds 50mm Marzocchis and the aluminium single-sided
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First ride: Bimota DB7 road test review
By Roland Brown on 19/12/2008 10:27:54
Bimota, sadly now without a UK importer, continue making some of the prettiest bikes in the world. The 1098-powered DB7 is divine...
-molybdenum steel tube with side-plates machined from billet aluminium. There’s no rear subframe; just a self-supporting carbon-fibre seat unit. As with the 1098, the engine is a stressed member of the chassis. The swing-arm uses a similar blend of oval steel tubes
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Motorcycle Radar: 1990
By Roland Brown on 24/11/2010 15:58:06
1990 was a mixed year for motorcycling. Remember the Laverda Navarro?
was obviously serious.This was mind-blowing stuff for anyone who’d witnessed the seemingly terminal decline of the British bike industry. Bloor himself was polite but blunt, explaining his huge investment (bewildering to all of us who’d seen so many high
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First Ride: Yamaha Tricker
By Roland Brown on 29/09/2005 15:47:07
The kids are alright but they ain't buying enough bikes. Yamaha hopes the Tricker will tempt the young tikes onto two wheels
and wheels add to the look of a bike that would be as at home in the local skate park as in the high street.The Tricker's built for city streets, though, so Yamaha held its launch in Amsterdam. The little air-cooled single motor might not make much power
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Motorcycle Radar: 1985
By Roland Brown on 25/11/2010 16:02:24
International roadtester and motorcycling sage Roland Brown looks back at the years that changed motorcycling over the decades…
massive high-side every lap.Next-best In ShowYamaha’s FZ750 would have been a star in almost any other year, with its torquey 20-valve liquid-cooled motor. But the steel-framed Yam didn’t have the Suzuki’s style, or racetrack cred.Just in case the GSX-R750
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