, wouldn’t they?As well as the suits, a new range of jackets has been launched. After a couple of years of fairly staid leather jacket designs, it’s good to see Dainese back on form with some absolutely stunning new colours and designs such as the Freddie

Great for bashing your way thru any city jamSPECIALIST aluminium fabricators Alpos have moved into the motorcycle market with a range of polished aluminium luggage cases.Available exclusively from Bykebitz Accessories, Alpos are a Slovenian company normally specialising in the ma...

IT'S MISERABLE here today! Started off with bright sunshine, then the heavens opened. Oh well. We’ve just been riding the smaller Hypermotard on the road, no track action today. Probably just as well given the weather. Engine’s great, much punchier than the 696 which is a bit gut...

AA Pothole Assist is a new service following in the footsteps of AA Fuel Assist and AA Battery Assist. As part of AA Pothole Assist, AA patrols will be tasked with filling in any potholes they come across when travelling between breakdown jobs.AA patrols will be using revolutiona...

JUST hours after we broke the news that Piaggio was planning to rebrand the Gilera GP800 as an Aprilia and give it an RSV4-style facelift the firm has released a single image of the bike.And, well, it's just what we said it would be. Underneath it's got all the same mechanical bi...

LEXMOTO'S stylish new commuter/learner bike, the ZSX 125, is now available to buy.Priced at £1,499 RRP, the ZSX is £1,000 cheaper than the current segment leaders, Honda's CBF125 and Yamaha's YBR125. It comes with a one-year warranty - but some Lexmoto dealers are offering five-y...

TODAY sees the release of pictures of Benelli's new BN600 – an inline-four-cylinder naked due for its unveiling at next week's Milan show. But it seems somewhat familiar.That familiarity is probably thanks to the fact it's virtually identical to the Generic GRS600 revealed in Col...

Just got back in after our first track session on the new 2012 Fireblade.Portimao has had quite  lot of rain recently and even though it's dry now there's very little grip which is a bit tricky bearing in mind we've got some new Bridgestone S20 tyres to test as well. The scrape m...

You can hardly accuse Triumph of rushing into the big adventure bike market. They’ve been incubating and hatching the 1200 Tiger Explorer since July 2006. Yes, since before the World went into financial freefall.But the gestation wasn’t helped by the fact that they had to design ...