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Sports Tourer test: Tiger 1050, VFR800, GSX-R1000 K7 and Fazer FZ1
By Jon Urry on 04/03/2010 11:18:20
Just what is a sports-tourer these days? Used to be a middle-for-diddle model with zero sex appeal, but these days it could be anything from a superbike with luggage to a purpose-built mile-muncher...
used to call them naked bikes, but Streetbike is far more contemporary. Off-road style tyres and a large fuel tank? That’s a big Trailie (if you’re very old) or an Enduro if you’re more up to date. Does it have panniers, and how big? Large then it’s a
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Half Price Sale: £5k used sportsbikes
By Jon Urry on 13/08/2010 10:49:09
With new litre sportsbikes costing upwards of £10,000 the used market is booming. But at £5k are these bikes half the performance as well as half the price?
couple of quid in your back pocket. As with any secondhand buy; the mileage, condition and even colour affect the price, but the choice out there is impressive.Honda’s first generation CBR1000RR Fireblade was first on our list. With a Moto
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Road Test: Boring Bikes To Belgium
By Jon Urry on 29/04/2008 21:38:48
Workaday middleweights sprout wings to prove their worth on a potter to Brussels.
crap name for a road test, and Cameroon was just too far away."There is absolutely no way of having fun on that bike," reckoned Rob, pulling up at the ferry port in Dover on the Transalp after the first leg of the journey. "The engine is dull
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First Ride: 2004 Kawasaki KLV1000
By Jon Urry on 30/03/2008 21:21:18
Haven't I seen you before somewhere? Deja-vu strikes as Urry rides Kawasaki's KLV1000.
and is inherent with big trailies. You soon get used to it and learn not to push it too hard, especially in the wet as the long travel suspension and off-road style tyre lack feedback. This is especially noticeable when braking in the wet.The brakes have always
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Second chance: Triumph Daytona 600
By Jon Urry on 18/03/2008 22:32:08
Expensive new but affordable now, Jon Urry has a second look at Triumph's sporting middleweight
Kawasaki unveiled the first of the radically styled ZX-6Rs and Honda unleashed the CBR600RR. Balls.Having learnt its lesson the hard way with the dreadful TT600, Triumph put a lot more effort into the Daytona 600. The styling was radical, the chassis sorted
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First Ride: Ducati ST3 review
By Jon Urry on 14/09/2010 17:05:37
Ducati's newest sports tourer breaks with convention and now comes with a three valve head instead of the usual four
things you understand. These 'launch gifts' usually bear some link to the bike you're about to test, no matter how tenuous, so on finding the tool roll waiting for me in my Barcelona hotel room I wondered exactly what it was the men from Ducati were
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First Ride: 2007 KTM 690 Supermoto
By Jon Urry on 20/09/2010 13:01:53
A user-friendly KTM supermoto with a 150-mile tank range? Jon Urry wonders what the world is coming to.
dedicated supermoto.Fast-forward nine years and the supermoto scene has changed. Where these bastardised off-roaders were once solely the products of specialist off-road manufacturers such as KTM, Husqvarna and CCM, the Japanese have turned the trend
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Splitting heirs - Kawasaki ZX-10R V ZX-10R
By Jon Urry on 20/03/2008 15:36:50
It was the maddest 1,000cc superbike in the world, then they tamed it. TWO rides both incarnations of the Kawasaki ZX-10R back to back...
ZX-6R's was launched, followed quickly by the Z750, then in 2004 Tanaka unleashed the ZX-10R on the world.This was a bike to take on the likes of Honda's RCV-inspired and considerably sharpened Blade, Yamaha's R1 (first underseat pipe model
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First Ride: 2005 Suzuki Bandit 650-650S
By Jon Urry on 31/03/2008 22:37:42
Suzuki's trusty Bandit has swollen in capacity for 2005, but is this enough to put the planet's longest-serving middleweight back in the frame?
like an on/off switch on fast stretches of road. By 9500rpm the power is all but gone though, and you get the 'flogging a dead horse' feeling.Continue the 2005 Suzuki Bandit 650 & 650S Review - 2/2JON SPEAKS TO BANDIT CHIEF ENGINEER TOSHIYUKI ENDOQ: Why
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Not so Super Motos
By Jon Urry on 01/10/2005 16:30:01
It's supermoto-a-go-go as Team Two heads to France on a madcap mission to raise the Pyrenees to the ground. Allez!
, which it is - the LC4 E it's evolved from (that's 'E' for 'Enduro' in case you were confused) is virtually identical but comes with off-road wheels and different suspension. Moving along we get Suzuki's DR-Z400SM, which again is a converted enduro bike
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