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First Ride: 2007 Buell 1125R
By Bertie Simmonds on 02/04/2008 17:59:37
25 years in the making and Erik Buell finally makes the bike he always dreamed of: a liquid-cooled V-twin with plenty of poke and handling to die for. So has junking the Harley engines given Buell a new edge?
motor and around an unfamiliar track like Laguna it cossets you, as your gear selection needn't be spot-on.Buell claims 146bhp @ 10,000rpm at the crank, but I reckon the 1125R will be pushing out more like 115 on the dyno. The bike is so tractable
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First Ride: 2007 Buell 1125R
By Bertie Simmonds on 29/03/2008 09:55:29
25 years in the making and Erik Buell finally makes the bike he always dreamed of: a liquid-cooled V-twin with plenty of poke and handling to die for. So has junking the Harley engines given Buell a new edge?
cast aluminium items.SPECS TYPE - SUPERSPORTSPRODUCTION DATE - 2007PRICE NEW - £8495ENGINE CAPACITY - 1125ccPOWER - 146bhp@9800rpmTORQUE - 82lb.ft@8000rpmWEIGHT - 179kgSEAT HEIGHT - 775mmFUEL CAPACITY - 21.2LTOP SPEED - 150mph0-60 - n/aTANK RANGE - N/A
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First Ride: 2002 Harley-Davidson VRSCA V-Rod review
By Bertie Simmonds on 27/03/2008 21:03:21
Harley-Davidson unleash their most important model for 50 years. With a watercooled, 115bhp, 60¡ V-twin motor straight out of their VR1000 racebike, it marks the start of a new direction for the Milwaukee firm. This is big.
, nothing could prepare me for the bike I saw. This is the boldest move for Harley-Davidson in recent history and this is the VRSCA V-Rod.V is for V-twin, R is for racing, S is for street, C is for custom and A means this is the first of a new breed
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First Ride: Ducati Multistrada 1000
By Bertie Simmonds on 14/09/2010 10:16:47
The new 2003 Multistrada. It's a practical, useful alternative to a sportsbike, but it can tour, commute and still cut it in the twisties as it was born on the mountain roads
Click to read: Ducati Multistrada 1000 owners reviews, Ducati Multistrada 1000 specs and to see the Ducati Multistrada 1000 image gallery.There's a gap ahead of around four or five bike lengths. Even on these beautiful Sardinian twisty mountain
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First Ride: Buell XB9S (2002-03)
By Bertie Simmonds on 29/03/2008 23:55:41
"So, gentlemen, as you can see, the new XB9S Lightning is the latest generation in the street-inspired Buell family and a different take on the Buell XB series."
DATE - 2002PRICE NEW - £7345ENGINE CAPACITY - 894ccPOWER - 84.2bhp@7400rpmTORQUE - 68lb.ft@5500WEIGHT - 175kgSEAT HEIGHT - n/a FUEL CAPACITY - 14L TOP SPEED - 130mph 0-60 - n/aTANK RANGE - N/A
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First Ride: 2002 Triumph Speed Four
By Bertie Simmonds on 29/03/2008 19:11:57
Picture the scene if you will. It's 2006, we're in the middle of a recession and another Government still ignores the benefits of motorcycles to the detriment of UK road users everywhere.
like the new Speed Four could be our saviours. Fun, on road, furious on track, but without the associated and inflated costs.In all honesty, initially I thought the Speed Four looked like something Ainsley Harriot had made on Ready Steady Cook
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First Ride: Buell XB9S
By Bertie Simmonds on 13/09/2010 11:49:56
Buell's naked, promises big kicks from its punchy motor but with a wheelbase smaller than a gnat's wheelbarrow, sharp handling too
over that stable, yet wicked set of geometry figures. As a reminder, they are 21-degrees of rake and 83mm of trail - the kind of figures normally only seen on Marco Melandri's Aprilia 250 GP bike.Wheelbase is also identical to the Bolt at 1,320mm and 45
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Honda DN-01 first ride review
By Bertie Simmonds on 26/04/2010 11:27:08
Is this what Judge Dredd will ride when he’s given up police work and gone utterly soft in his old age?
with other machines in the Honda range, perhaps like the Pan European or Gold Wing.In fact, there is so much to like and admire about the DN-01. It’s Honda’s take on a brave-new motorcycling world, and I can truly embrace that. Also, like premium quality
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First Ride: Aprilla RSV-R Mille Factory review
By Bertie Simmonds on 14/09/2010 14:30:43
The Mille R is dead. It's replacement, the Mille Factory, has moved Bert to proclaim the machine to be the best Italian V-twin sportsbike on the market
into top and heading towards the 300, 200 and 100 metre boards beyond which sits the inviting, greedy gravel trap. In a lap of the Gods, Ducati's MotoGP man Loris Capirossi was hitting 204mph down the straight before whacking on the anchors about 150 metres
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