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Half Price Sale: £5k used sportsbikes
By Jon Urry on 13/08/2010 10:49:09
With new litre sportsbikes costing upwards of £10,000 the used market is booming. But at £5k are these bikes half the performance as well as half the price?
couple of quid in your back pocket. As with any secondhand buy; the mileage, condition and even colour affect the price, but the choice out there is impressive.Honda’s first generation CBR1000RR Fireblade was first on our list. With a Moto
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First Ride: 2006 Bimota DB6 Delirio
By Alistair Walker on 22/09/2010 15:35:00
A beautiful symbiosis of man-made and machine-manufactured? Or an over-priced, over-sexed, under-powered and over-here Italian?
the bike, to try all the combinations, analyse the results and assess the feeling the bike gives you in motion."Out on the roads around Rimini, Bimota's manufacturing base, we put some of that to the test on a myriad of road surfaces.In a nutshell, I
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First Ride: 2006 Yamaha FZ1 Fazer
By Tim Dickson on 30/04/2006 16:12:21
Why build one bike when you can have two at twice the price? Yamaha's new FZ1 naked and half-faired FZ1 Fazer emerge into the cold light of day
in some bumps and ripples and there's a harshness to the damping. Both front and rear lose feedback and control on bumpy roads and skip about rather than absorbing bumps, but I'll wager the rear at least will behave better with a pillion on board. Ground
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First Ride: 2007 Triumph Street Triple
By Jon Urry on 28/03/2008 14:22:19
With £2,000 taken out of the Daytona 675's price tag is Triumph's Street Triple the bargain sportsbike of 2007, or have the boys from Hinckley cut corners on their new middleweight triple?
. And it shows. On the twisty roads around Lake Garda in Italy, where Triumph chose to launch the bike, the Street Triple was brilliant. The chassis is, as you would expect, perfectly balanced and flicking it from left to right the Street Triple's lack of bulk
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Road Test: VFR800 VTEC vs. ZZ-R1200 vs. FAZER 600
By Bertie Simmonds, Gus Scott, Simon Bowen, Daryll Young on 21/04/2008 21:49:21
Three different bikes, three different prices and three different ways to sports, tour and commute. These bikes are living proof that in the world of motorcycling, you can indeed have your cake, take it to the South of France and eat it...
, but the post '93 models are much better put together, as well as having a twin-ram-air snout which made them the fastest things on the road until the advent of Honda's Blackbird in '97.For 2002, Kawasaki moved the ZZ-R away from their own ZX-12R and made
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Road Test: R1100S v VTR v ZRX1200S v Bandit 1250S
By Jon Urry on 26/05/2008 15:41:21
With a price tag of £5549 Suzuki's new Bandit 1250 comes with a huge motor and tons of all-round potential. But is it better than a lightly-used big bore bargain?
rolling countryside awaited to test their swagger as well as their stomp.Continue the Road Test - 2/3
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Buyer Guide: KTM 990 Adventure
By Visordown on 26/11/2010 10:13:06
While a brand new 990 Adventure’s a nice idea, the subtle nature of KTM’s update means the previous model is far from obsolete. And with prices now at 600 supersport money, the most versatile machine on the planet is within reach.
1. Old vs. NewThe 2009 R model may be all-new but it’s not a replacement for the standard bike, more a hardcore alternative with more of an off-road bias. The previous Adventure has lower suspension than the R, making it easier to manage physically
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Samurai Type 5 first ride road test
By John Hogan on 12/07/2010 10:09:11
It is arguably that you cannot put a price on coolness, but could the £27k Samurai Type 5 cruiser be the answer
, nothing rattles.This thing hasn’t been built, it’s been crafted. Getting off the kerb and onto the road is the first reality check; a steering lock shocker. I push and pull like the bike’s a Bowman’s saw just to get it nearly pointing in the right
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Living with a 2008 Yamaha YZF-R6
By Andy Stevens on 16/06/2008 11:51:11
Andy loved his R6 and rolled around on it like a cut-price Rossi. Here's his review
. Clever!The R6 was taken on the 600 road test this month and while the bike was away I was terrified that it would come back smashed up. The CBR and R6 are both on Dunlops as standard and the ZXR and GSX-R are on Bridgestone’s. Apparently the Dunlops aren
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Used Test: Yamaha Fazer 1000
By Bertie Simmonds on 16/08/2008 21:50:12
Eagerly anticipated but horrendously expensive on its launch, the Fazer needed a price cut before gaining the popularity it deserved. But what about a used one?
When it was launched back in 2001, the Fazer 1000 was being touted as a sports bike alternative. In reality it was very close to a sports bike, but mainly on price: a whopping £8100, or nearly £1900 dearer than the Bandit 1200! An R1 was only a
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