in Bethnal Green in the East End of London. We’d spend more time taking them apart and fixing them than we would actually riding the things.Motorbikes didn’t go like they do now, they broke down every two minutes. Back then you used to have to wait about 20

motorbike.Critics said it added little and caused a jolt in the power delivery as it cut in, plus it made valve servicing prohibitively expensive. As a result, the VTEC has never had quite the following of the  earlier Fi model VFRs but the flip side

that both the cars and motorbikes world championships are held at the same facility annually. We are very proud of becoming the United States international facility for motorsports.”Construction of Circuit of the Americas is progressing well and is scheduled

. A motorbike as a relaxing way to travel?Surely some mistake?The Slim starts at £14,695 in flat black and the foot-thick Candy metalflake paint adds another three hundred sheets.All pics by www.doublered.co.ukHave you got a Harley-Davidson? Review

seen anyone put more than forty quid’s worth of fuel in a motorbike, before.It’s why you can do over three hundred miles without stopping for fuel. It’s not massively economical – I managed an average of just under 40mpg – but the volume of fuel

GP. Top-level racing requires mental and physical extremes that men are just better suited to by design. KitchYou don't see women win many GPs, do you? I hear women out-compete men at power boating so maybe that could happen on motorbikes too if enough

on a motorbike, is about the same thing. Of course unless you're actually psychotic you're unlikely to try to fuck yourself up, but it's funny how things turn out. A moment's distraction at the wrong time and you can find yourself in the world

the Bandit of many of its faults, in doing so making the new model the bargain bike of this year.Going from the tiny Yamaha to the Suzuki it does make the Bandit feel like a big barge, but others would say it just feels like a real motorbike and although

parts and so much more sporty – truly sporty – and individual than the rest of the herd that it’s well ahead of the game. So I posed a question in the office the other day: is riding a motorbike on the road a sport? The answers were varied

and have a 'bad attitude' to women bikers in general. Which is probably all true. But it doesn't appear that these particular WIMA members are enjoying their bikes that much. They just seem to have something to prove. 'Look at us! We're women! On motorbikes