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First Ride: 2007 Honda CBF600S
By Jon Urry on 10/04/2008 22:19:58
An easy learner friendly machine, or a bike with about as much soul as a sandbag? Honda’s middleweight goes for function over style...
that gramps had exceeded 100mph, got his knee down and pulled a wheelie. But you know what, I reckon that if they asked me if I had ridden a CBF600S I would struggle to remember. Which is the problem with this new Honda: it’s an instantly forgettable bike
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Road Test: Honda FMX650
By Jon Urry on 27/04/2008 20:53:28
Honda goes for the youth market with the supermoto-styled FMX650. But is it just a re-hashed Dominator for a new generation, and will today's youngsters shell out this much cash when less can buy more?
Honda is keen to stress one thing about the FMX: it is not a supermoto. Which is confusing, as the styling cues suggest it is. So if it isn't a supermoto, what the hell is it?Well, according to Honda people, the FMX is a 'Funmoto.' Now I know what
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First Ride: 2008 Honda CBF600S
By Jon Urry on 17/02/2008 15:27:28
An easy learner friendly machine, or a bike with about as much soul as a sandbag? Honda’s middleweight goes for function over style...
that gramps had exceeded 100mph, got his knee down and pulled a wheelie. But you know what, I reckon that if they asked me if I had ridden a CBF600S I would struggle to remember. Which is the problem with this new Honda: it’s an instantly forgettable bike
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Bloodlust - Honda NR750 vs. Ducati Desmosedici
By Niall Mackenzie and Jon Urry on 19/05/2009 15:30:27
Honda’s NR750 and Ducati’s Desmosedici are two of the most stunning bikes ever built. Each are worth £40,000 and both were developed from pure GP technology. There may be an incredible 16 years between them, but exclusivity this rare is timeless
It may be that puberty was confusing me at the time, but back in 1979 I could never understand why the Honda NR500 thingy was so rubbish compared to Barry Sheene’s Suzuki and Kenny Robert’s Yamaha. So it was only when I grew up a bit that I began
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Class of '89: Honda RC30 V Ducati 851
By Jon Urry on 17/11/2010 11:53:24
It’s 1989. Superbikes are on the cusp of being quite brilliant, and Honda’s RC30 and the 851 Ducati are now leading the charge
racers with lights bolted on and are the fastest things on the road today.Honda’s RC30 and Ducati’s 851 both need little introduction. Since their release in 1987 these engineering masterpieces have revolutionised the way we look at sportsbikes, both
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Honda CB1000R UK road test review
By Jon Urry on 04/03/2010 12:08:42
After years of trying (and failing) to make a decent streetbike has Honda finally got it right?
CB1000R reviewClick to read: Honda CB1000R owners reviews, Honda CB1000R specs and to see the Honda CB1000R image gallery.The Japanese motorcycle manufacturers can be a frustrating bunch. They have all the tools at their fingertips to create
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First Ride: 2006 Honda VFR800 VTEC ABS
By Jon Urry on 22/09/2010 13:10:00
Clever new VTEC knows what you want and paves the way for more variable valve Hondas
Click to read: Honda VFR800 VTEC owners reviews, Honda VFR800 VTEC specs and to see the Honda VFR800 VTEC image gallery.It's taken a while to get round to it but Honda has finally come up with a solution to the issues affecting the VFR800's
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Living with a 2004 Honda Fireblade CBR1000RR
By Jon Urry on 15/08/2004 09:21:25
Urry spends some quality time with a Honda CBR1000RR Fireblade
August 2004Urry takes the Blade for a romantic weekend in Le Mans before a rough thrashing at Oulton ParkRunning a bike in. What's it all about then? Well if you read the feature somewhere about the process it will, I'm sure, explain all the various
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Retro File: 1992 Honda Fireblade CBR900RR
By Jon Urry on 24/09/2010 16:34:51
For too long superbikes were about nothing but power. Then, in 1992, Honda launched the FireBlade and laid down the template for the modern sportsbike. Now the RR-N is a hugely desirable classic performance bike
Click to read: 1992 Honda Fireblade CBR900RR owners reviews, 1992 Honda Fireblade CBR900RR specs and to see the 1992 Honda Fireblade CBR900RR image gallery.In the late 1980s Honda entrusted the development of its new inline four sportsbike to a
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Honda Fireblade History: The Gathering
By Jon Urry on 05/11/2004 11:46:41
There's no bigger name when it comes to big sportsbikes than the FireBlade, and that was all the excuse we needed to line up every model since 1992 for a right good knees up at the wooded and wicked Oulton Park
among the race-replica pigeons like the Honda FireBlade.The big H realised there wasn't a great deal either 'super' or 'sporty' about the supersports class at the beginning of the '90s. The company's own CBR1000F was plenty quick, but about as exciting
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