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Launch Report: Derbi GPR125 and 125-SM
By John Hogan on 22/05/2009 12:09:41
TWO's John Hogan reports back from the launch of Derbi's new 125s in Barcelona
Derbi GPRI’ve just got back from the launch of two new Derbi 125’s. The first, the GPR, is a little cracker. It’s only fifteen bhp, but definitely looks the part. From twenty metres away it reminded me of a Honda CBR600F. Derbi take the 50 and 125cc
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First ride review: Aprilia RSV4-R launch report
By Rob Hoyles on 29/10/2009 11:29:25
Rob Hoyles reports back from the launch of Aprilia's RSV4-R. How does it compare to the super-trick Factory version
Click to read: Aprilia RSV4-R owners reviews, Aprilia RSV4-R specs and to see the Aprilia RSV4-R image gallery.IF YOU WERE as surprised as we were that Aprilia could not only get their V4 project right first time, but then offer it to us fully laden
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Launch Report: Buell 1125CR road test
By Visordown News on 03/10/2008 18:14:56
Bertie Simmonds reports back from the launch of Buell's 1125CR
to have had a major effect on, as has the new calibration of the Rotax-designed Helicon motor.Suspension again is improved: the test team spent a week working out a basic setting for the 1125CR, which works for all riders across all road surfaces. Much
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2009 Ducati Monster 1100 launch test review
By John Hogan on 19/04/2010 14:56:06
The 696 gets a new big brother. look out sportsbikes, there’s a new monster waiting in the wings to leap out and scare you clean off the road
After the grandiose launch of the all new 696 Monster in Barcelona a few months ago, it was a relief to find just a small welcoming committee from Ducati in Cannes, France, for the launch of the 1100 version. I have to admit to having some doubts
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2010 Yamaha Super Ténéré launch test review
By Kevin Ash on 22/06/2010 11:17:24
Built to rival BMW’s über-selling GS, but missing the mark in many areas, not least price. Not Yamaha’s best Super Ten
are. On our mostly gentle ride from Madrid to Lisbon, on motorways, up mountains and down sinuous country lanes, the big 23-litre tank demanded a refill only a little way short of 200 miles, though that does mean 42mpg where the GS would be getting 48
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2010 Honda VFR1200 European launch road test
By Tim Skilton on 11/06/2010 09:12:17
Honda has a lot riding on this one. With dwindling 1000cc supersports sales and an increase in the sports-tourer market, the VFR1200F is arguably the company’s most important new bike for a decade
for engine reliability and performance.Rain pain in SpainSo, here we are in not-so-sunny Southern Spain for the European launch of the VFR1200F. Honda has planned a 200-mile route for us to test the new machine: 60 miles of motorway, around 80 miles of fast A-roads
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2010 Honda VFR1200F world launch test
By Mark Forsyth on 04/06/2010 12:34:57
One of motorcycling’s worst kept secrets - Honda’s top-secret VFR1200F. Visordown were among the chosen few to ride it at the Sugo circuit in Japan
of those embarrassing falling-in-over-in-petrol-forecourt incidents. And because the heavily sculpted tank swoops around your knees, when you’re on the bike it really does feel like you’re in it – part of it. Our track and road test ride was dry but you
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Honda CBR600RR C-ABS launch test review
By German Ooms on 06/09/2010 11:47:01
Honda’s mostly-under-the-skin revised CBR600RR has one very significant addition for 2009 - an ABS braking system. But can ABS really sit comfortably on a supersport bike?
of motorsports at the moment, but it’ll soon be written in there. In capital letters. Before the CBR, I - and every sportsbike rider with me – considered ABS as inadequate and totally unnecessary. This test will soon prove me wrong.First of all, there’s a guy
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First Ride: Triumph Tiger Explorer 1200 review
By Mark Forsyth on 27/02/2012 08:53:59
Launch report
' new.Having ridden the rival’s offerings first it was clear to the Triumph design team from the offset that it wasn’t going to be possible to pluck an engine from the existing range and adapt it for use in the new adventure bike. Torque and power
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2010 Kawasaki Versys launch test review
By Mark Forsyth on 02/08/2010 10:50:20
Dependable do-it-all gets a facelift and a suspension twaeak. Mark Forsyth rode the new version to bring you chapter and verse
who want a do-it-all runabout. The Versys snared a lot of sports bikes types fed up with dodging speeding convictions and even trail bike riders who, when they were honest with themselves, never actually used their bikes off-road at all. Practical
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