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First Ride: 2007 BMW K1200R Sport
By Tim Dickson on 02/04/2008 12:50:25
Have the crazy Germans come up trumps with an entertaining, oddball parts bin special? BMW's K1200R Sport has arrived
It's barely spring and BMW has had a busy year already. First a new family of funky single-cylinder 650s - the G-series - and now, at the other end of the performance scale, we get this, the K1200R Sport. BMW's latest K-series inline four
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First Ride: 2008 Suzuki GSX650F
By Jon Bentman on 17/02/2008 15:39:35
Just a Bandit with a full fairing? Jon Bentman flies to France and discovers the new GSX650F is a bike that’s much greater than the sum of its parts
days slipstreaming our mates on LCs, essentially flashbacks to our first sport biking experiences. All of which must have been happily observed by the Suzuki personnel. This new GSX650F – Suzuki call it an ‘all day sports bike’ (a hint of Little Chef
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2009 Kawasaki ER-6n first ride review
By Tim Cummings on 14/04/2010 09:32:07
The budget twin designed to look like a traditional Japanese theatre mask gets a useful update and manages to be more than the sum of its parts
. It applies to bikes too. a learner machine will always be too dull to get an expert rider’s juices flowing. Or so we used to think, but when a group of us riding Kawasaki’s revised for 2009 ER-6n on a twisty coast road spotted another two wheeled gaggle
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First Ride: 2004 Moto Guzzi Nevada Classic 750
By Roland Brown on 30/03/2008 20:03:31
The Nevada name has been part of the Moto Guzzi catalogue for more than a decade now, but this year it's a 90% new bike.
, easy to ride, flexible, smooth and would leave almost all its rivals for dead on a twisty road. The Guzzi is also competitively priced at £5399 on the road. Neat instrumentation and a small grab-rail come as standard, while optional extras include a
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First Ride: 2007 Suzuki GSX650F
By Jon Bentman on 10/04/2008 22:51:37
Just a Bandit with a full fairing? TWO flies to France and discovers the new GSX650F is a bike that’s much greater than the sum of its parts.
and it didn’t buzz either, unlike CBF types. And so it turns what is a decent upper-middleweight do-all into a properly handy distance machine. Riding on these smooth fast roads inland of Beziers I couldn’t help but imagine how useful this bike would be for a
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2008 Kawasaki Ninja 250R first ride review
By Michaela Irwin on 28/04/2010 14:31:07
Kawasaki’s baby Ninja has already sold out in the UK and offers serious style for first-timers and commuters who want to look the part. We sent a total beginner to the world launch in Barcelona
given section of road. And in oh-so many ways, Kawasaki’s new Ninja 250R delivers just that. This small green thing made me wish I was 19 years-old, made me want to take a step back and learn to ride all over again. Except this time on a bike that could
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KTM 690 Duke R vs. Yorkshire Dales
By James Whitham on 04/11/2010 15:26:20
Highway to Heaven: Six bikes, six roads, six twats, six stories. Ben Bardon was forced to take photos of someone called James Whitham. Perhaps, more worryingly, he also had to listen to him for the best part of a Thursday afternoon
and five point harnesses and roll cages they feel dead safe. On the KTM Duke, on a bit of road like this you’re getting the same buzz as you would riding your R1 on smooth A-roads, only at half the speed.For its part the KTM Duke, with aggressive super
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First Ride: 2003 Honda Rune review
By Dirck Edge on 14/09/2010 15:14:34
Honda doesn't build £17,000 'custom' motorcycles. Honda doesn't create a design study and work 'backwards' towards a production machine. Of course, all of this was true before the Rune
Click to read: Honda Rune owners reviews, Honda Rune specs and to see the Honda Rune image gallery.Manufacturing motorcycles isn't entirely about making money on products that sell in large numbers - part of it is about building a brand image
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Niall's Spin: Triumph Thruxton
By Niall Mackenzie on 20/09/2010 14:09:52
The Thruxton is one of those models you have to get your hands on but there's more to this beauty than the eye can see...
Click to read: Triumph Thruxton owners reviews, Triumph Thruxton specs and to see the Triumph Thruxton image gallery.I LUSTED AFTER a Thruxton when I first glimpsed one at the NEC a few years back, picturing myself in cut-off denims and an open
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First Ride: 2007 KTM 690 Supermoto
By Jon Urry on 20/09/2010 13:01:53
A user-friendly KTM supermoto with a 150-mile tank range? Jon Urry wonders what the world is coming to.
IN 1998 KTM launched what it claims was the first production supermoto, the 620SM. It wasn't a revolutionary bike - the supermoto scene had been gaining strength in Europe for quite a while - but this was the first time a manufacturer had unveiled a
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