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First Ride: 2004 Victory Kingpin
By Mark Shippey on 30/03/2008 19:38:09
Victory hopes to attract a younger generation by producing a versatile, powerful cruiser. Can Victory pin down the kings for the full count?
A Cruiser can be customised, adapted, chopped and changed beyond all recognition - even more so than a sportsbike. There are the obvious choices on the market, namely Harley-Davidson, Triumph's Rocket III (when it finally hits the shops), or a retro
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First Ride: 2006 Yamaha Midnight Star
By Visordown on 13/05/2008 23:21:25
Packing the biggest and most powerful Yamaha cruiser engine yet, plus a bag of styling cues lifted from the 1930s, the Midnight Star is bristling with modern technology. It's even got an EXUP valve.
When Yamaha's Californian design team set out to create a new cruiser, their first plan was to style it traditionally and to make it big. Real big.But they found the prototype too tall and heavy-handling, so took the bold decision to scrap it
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First Ride: 2004 BMW R1200C Montauk
By Mark Shippey on 05/11/2003 11:49:08
Named after a town in New York State, the new R1200 C Montauk boasts more chrome and retro styling than a fifties diner. But it's also BMW's most successful foray into the cruiser market to date
on the head. Although the other models are fully capable bikes, none of them has really struck me as being a full-on cruiser. Until now. The new bars are wider and set slightly lower, the seat is more plush and comfy and the whole riding position a lot more
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First Ride: 2003 Yamaha XV1700 Road Star
By Kev Ash on 04/07/2003 10:33:43
Welcome to the slightly different world of the great big cruiser with Yamaha's latest (and larger) incarnation of its 1600 Wild Star. Big and shiny it certainly is, but is it any good?
with its looks, it's a cruiser's feel that determines rider satisfaction. And as any FireBlade owner knows, a fine handling bike feels really good even when you're using it gently. The new XV1700 Road Star shows that Yamaha has taken this view on board
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First Ride: 2007 Yamaha Midnight Star 1300
By Visordown on 02/04/2008 12:12:15
Yamaha's latest Star is an exercise in big-small.
despite the blustery wind.Max power is 73bhp at 5500rpm, and there's a plenty of low-rev grunt, provided you're not expecting giant-cruiser performance. Once in top I rarely needed the five-speed box's heel-and-toe lever, as the Yamaha stretched my jacket
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First Ride: Ducati Diavel Carbon review
By Ben Cope on 07/02/2011 12:11:18
The Diavel is in the details. So is it any good?
“So, ah. How do you like ah cruising in Bolognese sauce?” says Ducati’s Marketing Director to me as we sit down for a coffee having tackled the amazingly twisty and sun-drenched Ronda road in Spain.And that's the thing, the Diavel is hard
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First Ride: 2007 Triumph Rocket III Touring
By John Hogan on 10/04/2008 23:08:01
As American as the English language, this Hinckley super-tourer is all set to give the US cruiser market a good old taste of British spunk.
into different styles of cruiser. A laid-back bike with no screen or anything in the way of storage such as the Rocket has to be placed in the ‘power cruiser’ sector and can’t compete for sales in the other cruiser sectors of the market, which account for 50
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First Ride: Kawasaki VN1600 Classic review
By Mark Shippey on 14/09/2010 12:50:31
A hazy April afternoon cruising through the long, winding roads of the Northamptonshire countryside. Mark Shippey bonds with Kawasaki's VN1600 Classic
, stomp her into first and head for the sunset. The exhaust note on the standard pipes is loud enough to compliment the thumping 1552cc's, and idling through town a little blip of the throttle will give that classic note all cruiser riders love to hear
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Road Test: Victory Hammer
By Mark Shippey on 27/04/2008 20:20:42
A new engine, an overdrive and the fattest rear tyre in biking-dom. Will Victory's Hammer be able to wrestle the performance cruiser crown from our home-grown Rocket III?
.Fumbling for the ignition (it's on the left-hand side of the engine), I pulled out onto Dublin Boulevard heading towards the Interstate for the Hammer's first real test. Admittedly not a particularly fair test as cruisers aren't designed for high-speed motorway work, but a
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First Ride: 2007 Harley-Davidson Range
By Grant Leonard on 02/04/2008 18:31:31
It's 2007 already for Harley-Davidson. Grant Leonard rides the new big cruiser range, from stripped Street Bob to full-dress FLHTCU. Eh?
in 883 and 1200cc capacities and the giant 1584cc (96 cubic inch) cruiser engine. The latter is what we're testing here, the same motor powering the four model families.The engine has been given a thorough revision with an all-new drive-train featuring a
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