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First Ride: Husqvarna 510SMR & 610SM
By John Cantlie on 22/09/2010 14:50:23
With BMW money now behind them and their financial future assured, Husqvarna are keen to blow away the bad memories of the past
Click to read: Husqvarna 510SMR owners reviews, Husqvarna 510SMR specs and to see the Husqvarna 510SMR image gallery.FIFTEEN YEARS AGO Husky was at the sharp end of exotic off-road machinery. Very expensive, very fast and equipped with top
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First Ride: Husqvarna Nuda 900
By mark forsyth on 28/10/2011 10:22:27
BMW makes Husky road bike
degree of fore and aft weight pitch but use it to the tyre's advantage and it's a very satisfying bike to ride hard, up and down twisty roads. I found the on-off, small throttle opening fuelling quite savage - enough for me to feather the clutch a bit
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First Ride: Husqvarna Nuda 900R
By mark forsyth on 28/10/2011 12:42:24
Knobs, bells and whistles for £9,295
With a race track that's neither fully wet, nor fully dry all we can test in the first of the three sessions on the 900R is tooth grinding and breath holding. The R runs different mapping to the standard Nuda and a tooth off the gearbox sprocket
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First Ride: 2011 Husqvarna SMR630 review
By Ben Cope on 24/11/2011 12:39:37
It could be the saviour of motorcycling
and slightly anti-social. It'll remind you why you got into motorcycling in the first place.Husqvarna SMR630 price: £5925.00Husqvarna SMR630 price as tested with Arrow exhausts: £6650
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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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2009 BMW G450X first ride review
By John Cantlie on 27/04/2010 16:18:33
They’ve flirted with it for years, but now BMW finally get stuck into the business of serious off-roading with their new enduro tool
people who ride off-road wouldn’t even know what EU-III means the 450X is easily de-restricted for full-bore performance. All you do is complete a circuit with a £5 plug and the BMW goes instantly from 41bhp to 52bhp.It may only be a 450cc four
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First Ride: 2008 KX Range
By Jon Bentman on 02/04/2008 18:08:14
Kawasaki have been cleaning up in motocross this season. And their '08 range are direct descendants of their world beaters. You man enough to ride one?
test was very short, but with first impressions, that's how it felt.What was really cool for this launch was the presence of two-strokes. When was the last time you saw a new stroker outside of a Learner 50 or 125 catalogue?The KX125 is positively
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First Ride - BMW G450X
By John Cantlie on 07/09/2009 14:54:23
They’ve flirted with it for years, but now BMW finally get stuck into the business of serious off-roading with their new enduro tool
people who ride off-road wouldn’t even know what EU-III means the 450X is easily de-restricted for full-bore performance. All you do is complete a circuit with a £5 plug and the BMW goes instantly from 41bhp to 52bhp. It may only be a 450cc four
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