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Three And A Half Grand Secondhand Steel
By Jon Urry on 14/10/2007 15:22:12
With the unlikely premise of £3500 fast burning holes in their pockets, four TWO teamsters are buying second-hand steel. It's head v hearts all the way
even he'd sweat the transaction. Urry would have to hock one of his LCs and then finance the rest. But for Hogan and JB, now sprogged-up, this is a fantasy exercise. To do this for real they'd need to get a real job with real money - and it'd still
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Living with a 2006 Honda CBF1000
By Grant Leonard & Jon Bentman on 12/08/2006 16:54:56
Two men fall in love with the Honda CBF1000
adjective 'bland' but countering that the bikes were just so damn good that they liked them anyway. Riding the CBF, I knew exactly what they meant.Actually, life for the CBF has been a bit pacey recently, relatively speaking. John Hogan launched a set of Leo
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2008 Suzuki GSX-R1300 Hayabusa
By John Hogan on 27/03/2008 11:20:21
After nine years waiting , Suzuki finally unveil their all-new Hayabusa. Promising 198bhp and the fastest acceleration of any production superbike, we spoke to the team of people who put it together...
The new 2008 HayabusaHOW fitting Suzuki chose Rome as the venue to launch the 2008 Hayabusa - after all, neither were built in a day. Suzuki have made us wait a full nine years for an update on the original 173bhp 194mph heavyweight hypertourer. Time, and the official test launch...
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First Person: Michael Collins the 140mph biker
By John Hogan on 20/11/2008 10:22:22
First published in TWO, Michael was followed by an unmarked police biker as he rode at speeds of well over 100mph.
I’m 22 years old and I’m a criminal.I did my bike test when I was 17 but my licence started getting fragile, so I went racing. I spent three years winning races at MRO level, set some lap records and broke some bones. I enjoyed it but it got too expensive. I didn’t want to go bac...
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First Ride: 2007 Triumph Rocket III Touring
By John Hogan on 10/04/2008 23:08:01
As American as the English language, this Hinckley super-tourer is all set to give the US cruiser market a good old taste of British spunk.
The Rocket III is a fairly scary bike, face it. Trying to unleash 143bhp while sitting in a position similair to the one that labouring women use isn’t exactly the most relaxing way to begin a mid-life crisis. Sales have been strong but not as strong as expected in the US. The Am...
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Luke Williams, the serial bike buyer
By John Hogan on 29/03/2010 14:30:32
Luke williams is a serial bike buyer. what he doesn’t know about motorbikes isn’t worth knowing. Problem is, he hasn’t quite got round to passing his test yet...
Bikes entered my life when I was about 10. My dad had a mint Z900 and we used to go everywhere on it together. He bought me an old motocross bike and I was hooked. I enjoyed riding it, but as much as riding it, I just enjoyed owning a bike. I raced a bit of schoolboy motocross, d...
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V.Far V-Four: 1000 miles on the Honda VFR1200F
By John Hogan on 04/08/2010 15:20:53
We’ve ridden the VFR1200F a thousand miles on typical UK roads in typical UK weather. Snow, rain, freezing fog and temperatures of barely more than zero answer one question. How real-world-good is the new VFR?
The plan is brilliant in its simplicity. Fuel up the VFR and ride it, somewhere, anywhere. Repeating as necessary until the above question answers itself. How hard can it be? My journey begins on the driveway of one of my childhood idols. In an ideal world Mark Forsyth’s first ey...
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Samurai Type 5 first ride road test
By John Hogan on 12/07/2010 10:09:11
It is arguably that you cannot put a price on coolness, but could the £27k Samurai Type 5 cruiser be the answer
Can you buy cool? It’s a valid question. Every time I try to be cool I mess it up. I trip over my own feet, blow smoke in my eyes or dribble beer down my chin. Don’t get me wrong, I’m no geek, but if you have to try then you’ll never really nail the whole Fonzie thing. The Samura...
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Honda Ron Haslam Racing Academy Review
By John Hogan on 20/10/2010 10:59:51
We check out the Honda Ron Haslam race school and see if it's value for money
Preconception: I hope the Haslams like my tribute sideys What I learned: Sideys don't mean squat when you've just crashed in front of two generations of racing leg-endWhen I was 11, I could strip and re-assemble an AK47 in under a minute. Blindfolded. At 13 I could map-read like ...
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The White Helmets motorcycle display team
By John Hogan on 22/10/2010 11:37:08
The White Helmets display team have been entertaining kids at military tattoos for over 90 years. But in this day of psycho freestylers aren’t they just relics, a total anachronism?
It’s April 1988. Aswad are number one in the charts, everybody wants a Peugeot 205, Davide Tardozzi has just won some race called World Superbikes and a litre of unleaded costs 37 pence. Being just eight years-old I had different priorities, like Streethawk, doing skids on my BMX...
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