mean 95bhp and 73ft lbs in a bike with a claimeddry weight of just 169kg. The suspension felt firm but not annoyingly so.The brakes a little lifeless unless you were braking from high speeds. Itsonly when you ride the 1100 out of town and up the pace

spent the day riding it at the fantastic Motorparc test facility just outside Barcelona. At just over four km’s long and with huge elevation changes I thought that the GPR would be way out of its comfort zone, but it proved to be a bit of a tool once

They say:  "Like a surfer on a wave, we make each ride our own" KawasakiWe say: "Look at me mum! I'm doing a launch" John HoganThe Versys is an important bike for Kawasaki in terms of capitalising on the success of the ER-6 and increasing its share

on the balls of your feet.The digital clocks look tiny at first but you soon adjust to the size and layout. You can also select from eight different levels of backlight brightness to illuminate the dash with a clinical white glowThe riding experience is a mix

Click to read: BMW K1300S owner reviews, BMW K1300S specs and to see the BMW K1300S image gallery.The K1300S doesn’t need to cover as many bases as the R model to succeed in the market it’s intended for. Competition in the hypertourer league is limited to the Suzuki Hayabusa and ...

me wrong, two-up with a weekend’s worth of kit for two, this bike will shine. But, after belting along fast A-roads like it can, the GT puts you in a sporty riding frame of mind, which if you try and apply to more demanding roads will result

’m doing a reasonable impression of what I might have looked like had I been allowed a ride on this bike 13 years ago, when I was 16 and 125s were all that mattered. How wrong was I.Apparently from the pit wall I looked as stupid as all the other lardy old

. They have also fitted the bike with similair mirrors to the sportsbikes, although these ones give you a view of the road rather than your elbows.The basic premise of the original Monster was a sports bike without a fairing, and that hasn’t changed

of Bikes' test.When updated models and new bikes such as Suzuki's GSR600 came looking, the Zed kept its guard up and defended the title. On the naked middleweight block, the Z750 was very much the Daddy.Visually the mostly all-new Z750 is a nice evolution

alloy feels like one of the biggest improvements. It only equates to a saving of 1kg of unsprung weight, but it transforms the feel of the front end. Where the old one felt wayward, cumbersome and inconsistent when riding fast roads, the new version