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The Odd Couple: James May motorbike review
By James May & Colin Goodwin on 28/01/2011 10:04:06
Top Gear's James May and Autocar Magazine's Colin Goodwin team up with Yamaha and Harley-Davidson in a quest for the alternative to scary sports bikes.
Dipping in to the archive when James May did a review for the magazine. EnjoyJames May is 'not the short one' on BBC2's Top Gear. Unlike Clarkson, who famously hates motorcycles (despite the fact he once bought his wife a Ducati), May is a serious bike fan who's had some fairly u...
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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?
, humans would have evolved to suit his handlebar design, but as yet, we haven’t.So in town, the 1125CR scores some good points, so I pointed it in the direction of Dorset and clicked up a 150-mile blast to Lyme Regis to see what it thought of the fast A-roads
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Heavy Metal
By John Cantlie on 28/03/2008 14:33:20
BMW K1200R, Harley-Davidson FLSTCI Heritage Softail, Triumph Rocket III - Three massive motorbikes that can go toe-to-toe with a tank
If you'd given me the option in 1939 of which side I'd have fought on during the war, it would have had to be Germany. It's a terrible admission, I know, and one that my family would be mortified by (we come from a long line of jingoistic, flag-waving duffers who furthered Britai...
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2009 KTM 990SMT first ride review
By John Cantlie on 09/04/2010 09:21:43
It’s taken Austrian dirt bike peddlers KTM a decade, but the orange House of Madness has finally produced a sensible motorbike. Except it isn’t, not really…
Click to read: KTM 990 SMT owners reviews, KTM 990 SMT specs or to see the KTM 990 SMT image gallery.The launch of a new motorcycle used to be a terribly messy, often Bacchanalian affair. In the mid-1990s when the average testosterone-charged tester was 27 years old and the bike ...
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First Ride: 2004 BMW K1200S
By Jon Urry on 30/03/2008 20:39:18
Heralded as the sportiest BMW motorbike ever, can the K 1200 S really rival the current hyper-sports bikes? Jon Urry travels to Munich to sample the delights of the German Autobahn and Austrian curves
to say I was really looking forward to riding the new bike, and where better to launch a hyper-sports bike than Germany with its unrestricted speed limits and neighbouring Austria with its twisty Alpine roads?After the traditional dull German presentation
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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: CBR900RR vs YZF750 v TL1000s V BMW 635i
By Warren Pole on 20/04/2008 21:43:23
£2,500 gets you a lot of motorbike if you use your noggin these days. We did just that and landed a trio of minto sportsbikes. Then we got a Beemer for the same miserly sum just for comparison's sake
"Like the mag lads," said the bloke to us in the office's local pub, "but why don't you test secondhand bikes? Not all of us can afford the new stuff you're always on about." And he had a point. So in the interests of research I asked him how much
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First Ride: 2007 Aprilia Mana
By Roland Brown on 10/04/2008 21:51:31
Aprilia’s Mana puts a fully-automatic transmission into a conventional motorbike, creating the last word in practical biking. So is the Mana a fantastic scooter for grown-ups, or the worst of both worlds..?
that setting to provide very little engine braking, which meant I had to use the bike’s stoppers more than normal – hardly ideal on slippery roads. Toggling between the Sport and Touring modes made little difference in town, though Sport gives some extra zip
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First Ride: 2002 Suzuki GSX1400 review
By Niall Mackenzie on 20/09/2010 12:36:30
Just another member of the Bandit family? Not quite. Suzuki delve back into the history books to bring you a genuine muscle bike with all the trimmings. Niall Mackenzie finds it's not quite what he expected
's not a frantic or frenzied assault on the senses - just a crest of midrange power that you surf down the road. And it's really responsive low-down. In low gears it was a pussy cat, any throttle position, any rpm, it just pulls.Once you get your head
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KTM RC8R vs. Corby Glen
By Ben Cope on 04/11/2010 11:46:22
Highway to Heaven: Six bikes, six roads, six twats, six stories. Ben Cope knows the score. But not even the supreme skills of ace lensman Paul Bryant could make this internet millionaire look any good
Click to read: KTM RC8R owners reviews, KTM RC8R specs and to see the KTM RC8R image gallery.The trouble with asking people for their favourite road is that it’s a bit like asking a kid exactly what he’d buy with a crisp £50 at the local pic ’n’ mix
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