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Road Test: R1200S v. RSV-R v. CBR1000RR v. 955i
By Tim Dickson on 20/05/2008 10:17:35
BMW wants us to know their new R1200S is very much a sports bike. But by whose reckoning? Theirs or ours? Sporting all-sorts go to the Alps to find out. And not a race track in sight...
in time for Desperate Housewives to keep Niall happy.Step forward, then, the all-too obvious choice, Honda's slightly-revised-for-2006 Fireblade, yours for £8899. Neck-and-neck with the GSX-R1000 for all-out litre class sports bike honours, the pin sharp
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Road Test: 2005 1000cc Superbike Review
By Tim Dickson on 27/04/2008 20:26:21
There's a stretch of autoroute south of Clermont Ferrand that is the perfect tonic to the preceding several hundred miles of motorway monotony - if riding four of the world's finest litre bikes can ever be considered monotonous.
south alongside the meandering river Allier just north of Issoire, it snakes left and right in a succession of fast, 140mph kneedown fast, right-left-rights.Riding the luggaged-up Repsol-rep Fireblade I'm first into them, warning the traffic ahead
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Road Test: K1200GT v CBF1000F v KTM990 v GSX-R600
By Tim Dickson on 27/01/2011 14:14:16
Going touring? You need a big bike, panniers and a top box. Or do you? From full-on sports tool to fully laden mile eater, via adventure tourer and slick all-rounder, the choice is yours. Team Visordown packs its bags and heads south.
is KTM's 990 Adventure monster trailie/adventure tourer, and finally Honda's Fireblade engined, soft-edged do-it-all rounder, the new, and bargain priced, CBF1000.Waking up in a foreign land with nothing to do but ride bikes all day is a wonderful feeling
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Excess all areas - June 2005 - 1000's test
By Tim Dickson on 01/06/2005 13:40:06
TWO head to France to test out the Honda CBR1000RR, Kawasaki ZX-10R, Suzuki GSX-R1000 K5 and Yamaha YZF-R1.
, the odd hairpin and all wide, grippy, well-surfaced and largely traffic-free - at least they were on the sunny mid-March Friday afternoon we were there.The bikes. Honda first, then. It is, frankly, remarkable just how easy the mass-centralised Fireblade
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World In Motion
By Harriet Ridley, Alex Hearn, Tim Dickson on 23/02/2008 15:05:39
Travel by car and you're watching a movie. Travel by bike and you're in the movie. Which is reason enough in our book to hit the road for a touring holiday. The question is, how do you want to do it?
1 SPORTSBIKE TOURING - Sportsbike minimalist, Tim DicksonThe world's a big place. And there's a lot of ground to cover quickly Why do you own a bike? For me, it's about actually riding the thing. And while I like to get my sportsbike fix riding
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