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Zero To 180mph In A Day
By Tim Dickson on 01/08/2005 19:17:36
Can a bona fide biking novice learn to ride in the morning and do flat-out speed runs on a litre sportsbike by teatime? Your CBT was never like this
one key factor in his favour: he had never ridden a motorcycle before. Ever. He was brilliantly and spectacularly clueless about the whole thing. Perfect. The plan was beautiful in its simplicity. Take one total novice (Speccy) to a big, long piece
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First Ride: 2007 Buell 1125R
By Bertie Simmonds on 29/03/2008 09:55:29
25 years in the making and Erik Buell finally makes the bike he always dreamed of: a liquid-cooled V-twin with plenty of poke and handling to die for. So has junking the Harley engines given Buell a new edge?
. First impressions are good, thanks to that new motor, which was developed jointly between Rotax and Buell. Erik has long been a fan of V-twins thanks to their flexibility and it's this that hits home on your first ride of the 1125R. There's a beautifully
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2008 Honda Fireblade launch - riding impressions
By Tim Skilton on 22/12/2007 14:12:27
Tim Skilton gives us his thoughts on Honda's new flagship
Skilton finds new Blade still sharp but forgivingLOSAIL GP circuit is a tricky track to learn. The 3.4-mile venue, which will host the first ever nightime MotoGP race next year, consists of a kilometre-long straight, a couple of left-right flicks
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First Ride: 2008 Yamaha YZF-R6
By James Whitham on 10/04/2008 23:14:59
James Whitham used to be a bit tasty on an R6 in World Supersport, so he’s uniquely placed to give the ‘08 bike a proper seeing-to...
after gear at the little rocket as it sings its way straight past the 16,500rpm red-line and on towards the 16,700rpm limiter. It’s absolutely mental, and you forget how addictive it is riding bikes this rampant. It’s difficult to say without doing a
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Living with a 2008 Yamaha YZF-R6
By Andy Stevens on 16/06/2008 11:51:11
Andy loved his R6 and rolled around on it like a cut-price Rossi. Here's his review
’t quite as good and one of the two bikes went down on the test. Lucky for me that it wasn’t mine.It’ll be worth experiementing with some new rubber when the hot weather arrives, but to be honest I’m no racer and can’t ride anything hard enough to tell
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Living with a 2009 Kawasaki GTR1400
By Ben Miller on 23/02/2009 10:39:09
Ben Miller sends some time with the GTR1400 and finds ten reasons to love and hate it
the other way. I’ve always been a fan of electric screens, they serve a purpose for when you want to cruise (fully up) and when you need to get somewhere in a hurry (fully down and crouch). The standard screen on the big Kawasaki is a little small for me – I
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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
buy cars - oh, and those of us who have just been told "we're having a baby", of course.And quite probably the one way to make the transaction even more stressful is to buy second-hand. With new bikes there's the comfort of a two-year warranty
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Made In Britain
By Gordon Ritchie on 01/09/2005 20:25:31
Britain can be considered, in many regards, as an epicentre of world racing. Come again?
brilliant at racing; names like Duke, Surtees, Hailwood, Read and Sheene making us still one of the best in the all-time lists of racing winners.It's been a long time since we had a World Champion in GPs, but in Superbike we've had far greater success. Four
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Fatal Attraction
By ddgurman on 16/11/2005 16:08:38
A tale about women, bikes and accidents.There are lessons to be learned..
; you can even bung in horse shit and, one I encountered personally, mint sauce slicks if you like. The reality is you expect the unexpected and as long as you're on the ball, you're safe. But what happens when you're distracted? This brings me
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Living with a 2005 Suzuki DR-Z400SM
By Jon Urry on 16/02/2006 15:27:50
Urry loons around on the supermoto DR-Z400
commuting the Yellow Peril does around 80 miles to reserve, which invariably happens when you are overtaking a car, making the reach down to turn the tap to reserve an interesting manoeuvre. I've not run it dry yet, but it's only a matter of time, planned
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