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Road Test: Ducati 999 vs. 998
By John Cantlie on 21/04/2008 22:00:18
Of course, what every 998 owner really wants to know is whether they have to sell their bike immediately and get another loan for a new 999. Or are they - infact - better off with their undoubted modern classic?
on a motorcycle. At my age? What am I thinking of?It's not a regular occurrence, granted. Riding - as we do - motorcycles day in and day out during the week, sometimes (if I'm completely honest with you) the very last thing I want to see at the weekend
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First Ride: Honda XL700 Transalp
By John Cantlie on 10/04/2008 22:59:27
Older than the hills themselves, Honda’s original Adventure bike just got itself a total makeover for 2008. And a whole new lease of life...
-on-year. It would appear that UK riders are finally following in the footsteps of our European chums, eschewing one million bhp in favour of decent tank ranges, Ewan and Charlie styling and easier everyday riding. It had to happen at some stage. As motorcycling
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Living with a 2009 BMW R1200GS Adventure
By John Cantlie on 23/05/2009 11:02:50
John Cantlie's long term impressions of the BMW R1200GS Adventure
.And so it is that when the selections were being made for our 2009 longterm test fleet, when I could have asked for any number of amazing motorcycles from any number of manufacturers, I opted to have exactly the same bike as last year: a BMW R1200GS
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First Ride: 2007 Kawasaki GTR1400
By John Cantlie on 28/03/2008 11:13:10
Kawasaki enter the super-tourer class with their blistering GTR1400. Well-appointed and refined, this top-end tourer also comes with a strong helping of brutish Kawasaki performance
, they are to be saluted. Sometimes they make rather heavy bikes, sometimes they haven't gone round corners very well, but Kawasakis always make lots of horsepower and go extremely fast. And that is, after all, what motorcycles are supposed to do. So when they launched
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