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Living with a 2006 Honda CBF1000
By Grant Leonard & Jon Bentman on 12/08/2006 16:54:56
Two men fall in love with the Honda CBF1000
tortoise. That's how you get it off. So began the slow and inevitable piece-by-piece destruction of my long-termer.Next, it's roped into a group touring test, our cover story. I'm loathe to let it go, but I'm in a corner. It's the cover story. 1500 miles
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Heavy Water - Tourers Test
By Grant Leonard, Tony Middlehurst & James Whitham on 19/10/2010 10:12:34
Three middle-aged men in various states of mid-life crisis explore the Lake District on three very silly motorcycles...
stereo systems; ridiculous weight; enormous 1500+cc engines (two V-twins and a fl at six); gobsmacking road presence.The destination was for fun and scenery, the journey there and back a real test of these bikes’ capabilities. James Whitham and his good
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Used Review: Yamaha Fazer 600
By Bertie Simmonds on 05/04/2008 16:03:24
Cheaper than chips and more versatile than a Swiss Army knife, the Yamaha Fazer is one of the few bikes that really can be (nearly) all things to all men - and all for under two grand
value.No matter how they went about it, the men from Iwata had turned base metals into gold: the Fazer was a knockout bike. It performed better than it should, proving to be so much greater than the sum of its parts. So good was it, people looked
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Second Chance - Honda CBR600 2001-2006
By Jon Urry on 28/03/2008 15:44:45
Want it all? You're not alone. The CBR600F is Britain's best-selling motorbike of all time and not without good reason: it really is all things to all men (and women)
the case. But the fact is that most of us spend the majority of our time riding on the road where crippling riding positions and incredibly revvy engines are just plain annoying - even if we pretend that's not the case on the day. Fortunately Honda kept
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Road Test: Beaujolais Or Bust
By Warren Pole, Colin Goodwin, Adam Harvey, Martin Heath on 22/04/2008 22:24:08
Four men, four bikes, one quest - to bring home the firstbottle of Beaujolais Nouveau 2004 to British shores. The question isn't 'Why?', it's 'Why not?' Allez!
of Mutley aboard Yamaha's Fazer 1000, while snapper Martin Heath would ride the ZZ-R1200 as Peter Perfect.As mentioned earlier, it would seem I begun the deceit that permeated this road trip, but in fact it was someone more powerful who did this
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Woodstock - Big BMWs offroad: 450 X, F800 GS & R1200 GS
By John Cantlie on 28/07/2010 09:36:23
For the average trail rider in the UK, a full-on enduro bike is overkill. Surely, a road bike with some big knobbly tyres for green-laning is enough? We put three grumpy old men haggard on a trio of BMWs to find out
and I can drive directly at London buses when filtering through traffic to make them stop so I can make a gap. People notice the big Beemer, it casts a gigantic footprint in every way, and sometimes I even venture off-road on it. If you manhandle
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Second Chance - Honda CBR600F
By Visordown on 24/05/2010 10:19:02
The last of the versatile 600 supersport bikes, a biography of the CBR600F the best selling bike in Britain
Want it all? You're not alone. The CBR600F is Britain's best-selling motorbike of all time and not without good reason: it really is all things to all men (and women). Plenty of people overlook it in favour of its racy stable-mate, the newer 'double
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First Ride: 2005 Ducati 999
By Jon Urry on 30/03/2008 21:50:04
Ducati's flagship sportsbike gets a new look as well as a whole load more power for 2005. Jon Urry samples the delights of the new 999
received an invitation to the launch of an unspecified 999 at Mugello in Italy, which the Ducati men were keeping tight lipped about.Assuming it was a European spec 999R I was more than a little surprised when, sat in a pit garage at the track, a curtain
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Supersport Superstars - 2005 600cc test
By Jon Urry on 01/03/2005 12:09:13
How do you split five of the best supersport machines ever made? It's not easy, but using two of the UK's most successful and experienced racers, a Spanish race track and a day's riding on dry mountain roads is certainly a good start...
Sitting in a Spanish bar following two days of testing the new breed of 600s on both the track and road, we still haven't come to a conclusion. There are two pressing questions. First, who is our favourite film star and secondly, which is the best
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Kings of the Hill
By Warren Pole on 22/06/2009 10:45:41
Ducati's Hypermotard goes toe-to-toe with KTM and Buell through the vicious twists and turns of a Championship hill-climb event in Wiltshire
"Are you the blokes coming from the bike magazine?" asked the guy next to us as we parked up in the paddock. Damn. He'd seen straight through our clueless expressions, our brand new road legal bikes masquerading as hill-climb racers and our bungling
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