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How to Buy the Right Helmet
By Ben Miller on 22/04/2010 09:50:17
Notoriously fragile, your head’s worth protecting. Follow these four steps to hard-hat happiness
, not commuting.”2. Features and budgetNow that you know what style of helmet you’re looking for, you need to consider your budget. Regardless of the Sharp rating system – the flawed DFT-backed initiative designed to help people choose helmets – what your mates
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The lazy biker's guide to cleaning
By Sachin Rao on 03/04/2013 10:53:00
Can the dreaded weekly (ok, monthly) chore be made quick and easy?
.Many cleaning products promise to solve your dilemmas with a spray-on, wipe or wash-off swipe of their magic wands. Do these really work? How little equipment do you need to be able to clean your bike to a good standard? How quickly and easily can you be done
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TESTED: Sub £60 All-weather gloves
By Christopher Dodd on 05/02/2013 11:22:56
The ultimate budget gloves test
Not so long ago, we set out to discover whether or not it is possible to buy a decent pair of winter gloves for under £100.We concluded that it is, but just how little can you spend to get a good pair of all-weather gloves?We selected 10 pairs
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Tested: Best motorcycle rucksacks
By Sachin Rao on 17/04/2013 10:03:00
We put 10 rucksacks to the test, Visordown style. We've got your back...
FOR our latest product test, we’ve taken a good, hard look at motorcycling rucksacks to see how they cope with life’s burdens. We selected ten rucksacks that fulfilled three base criteria: a nod to wearer comfort in the form of multi-point harnesses
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Five safest motorcycle helmets for under £150
By Robin Goodwin on 20/06/2011 11:28:29
Five budget lids that garner five star ratings from SHARP
.SHARP Helmet testing evaluates the protection offered by a helmet by analysing the impact levels across its surface. According to SHARP they carry out their test 'on each model using seven individual helmets across a range of sizes – assessing how well each
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Slice of life
By Visordown on 22/02/2013 15:26:00
In Their Shoes: Domino's Pizza delivery rider
THE NEXT time you call in a pizza, spare a thought for the bloke who delivers it. He’s been out all evening delivering dozens of similar orders, come rain or snow or shine. How does he comfortably put all those miles on? We swung by our friendly
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Pirelli Angel GT tyre review
By Ben Cope on 18/04/2013 20:47:00
We test Pirelli's new touring tyre on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier and at the Nardo test track. Can a pure touring tyre really deal with an R1 on track?
to see just how close to the edge I had been. The R1, with its bundles of torque, loves to torture a rear tyre.Picking my way through tourers that were grinding out panniers on their way through a corner. Running rings around gutless flat-twins sparking
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