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BMW's Big bikes for little people
By Michaela Irwin on 16/01/2009 16:11:48
BMW are now offering a large proportion of their bigger models with lowered saddles and shocks for those of a shorter stature. TWO sent a tiny person to investigate
with the finest of German efficiency. If it brings you to motorcycles and experiences otherwise out of your reach, then that can only be a good thing. I for one have my world map open, and have started dreaming about ditching the day job and beginning my intrepid
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First Ride: 2008 Honda CBR1000RR Fireblade
By Niall Mackenzie on 07/11/2008 12:08:31
Honda doesn’t do quirky on its sportsbikes without a very good reason. Niall puts Honda's new superbike through its paces
the likes of traction control, variable intake systems and a choice of engine maps, but Honda has chosen to keep things simple by revisiting and improving on their original concept. Its main focus has been on weight loss, mass centralisation and cleaner
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Buell 1125CR - Road test review
By Ben Cope on 12/10/2009 17:00:50
If we bought motorbikes using our head alone, Buell would be out of business. Will the 1125CR help Buell onwards and upwards?
is a touch jerky when you’re trying to dial in precise and small amounts of low-end revs, but slipping the clutch softens up the slight harshness of the new fuel map.Buell have changed the final drive of the 1125CR to 8% lower than the 1125R, so
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Living with a 2004 Victory King Pin
By Mark Shippey on 15/10/2005 11:24:04
Mark Shippey reviews Victory's Kingpin cruiser over the course of a year
. The kit consists of new mufflers, vented airbox cover, K&N filter plus a fuelling re-map and ignition timing change for around £550. What a revelation. The open pipes are ear-splitting, so no creeping home in the wee small hours for me anymore. I knew
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Living with a 2006 Yamaha FZ1 Fazer
By Tim Dickson on 16/07/2006 09:57:24
Tim Dickson likes his Fazer FZ1 dirty
.That aside, the PCIII has yielded impressive results. Increased power and torque everywhere, with an extra 6bhp at the top end, is the kind of boost you'd expect from a £1000-plus full system, not a fuel injection re-map costing a third of that. Best bit
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Living with a 2008 KTM 990SM
By Barry Tavner on 16/12/2008 11:13:13
Barry Tavner's track record with bikes is dismal. Did this KTM ever make it through the year without being written off or stolen? Find out..
carburretor or fuel injection settings, therefore no fuelling changes are necessary. However they do advise you to optimize the stock settings by using the aftermarket jet kits or EFI-mapping.I’d been advised to drop the bike down at a garage to have
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Living with a 2009 Suzuki GSX-R1000
By Rob Hoyles on 23/06/2009 11:12:08
Hoyles finds his youth again with Suzuki's mental GSX-R1000
bashing myself about being this month’s fairly obvious low. But on the Suzuki side of the garage, things are going pretty well, if a little slowly for my liking.Frank Wrathall at Dynojet UK came up trumps with a Power Commander V to get the mapping sorted
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MV Agusta RR.. R.. R.. Ah.. Aahh.. Aaaahhh
By Visordown News on 11/05/2011 07:45:53
201bhp. Oh yes.
as well as two maps for the engine, and everything is now easily managed through the new controls that have been placed on the left handlebar.CHASSIS: LIGHT AND PRECISEThe frame and swingarm are common with those of the already excellent F4, but the desire
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Longest Test: Harley-Davidson XR1200
By Ian Stewart on 02/01/2009 10:41:11
Large, simple and underdeveloped. But enough about our intern, Ian Stewart, Whit’s XR1200 proves that it’s as much fun as its owner
not being able to find France on a map, its perhaps understandable Harley didn’t envisage their bike being used for this kind of trip, but to be this inappropriate surely takes some doing. I’m being buffeted so much my head is bobbing about more than
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First Ride: 2013 Honda CBR600RR C-ABS review
By Ben Cope on 26/03/2013 13:45:50
At a freezing-cold Donington where even the mighty Ron Haslam struggled to get heat in the tyres, we ride Honda's revised Supersport offering. In between mugs of hot tea.
.The fuel injection mapping has been tweaked along with the Direct Air Induction System (ram-air) to offer marginal improvements to fuel efficiency and performance. That’s your new 2013 CBR600RR.Once the snow had passed, it was time for action. Of sorts. Ron
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