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The Undertones - Hornet 900, 955i and ZX-9R
By Jon Urry on 15/01/2009 15:59:09
Sometimes bikes are launched that fail to excite and slip under the biking radar for one reason or another. We find three of the best.
wrong. Either way the bike doesn’t sell, slips out of magazine tests and becomes almost invisible to the average, mainstream, buyer.Which is where we now pick them up. Armed with a budget of £4,000 we took a long, hard, look into the second-hand bike
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First Ride: Moto Guzzi Breva V750IE
By Jon Urry on 14/09/2010 11:38:13
Two years after being taken over by Aprilia the eagle is once again flying over the Moto Guzzi factory at Mandello del Lario. So, wossit like then?
look.To ride, the Breva delivers exactly what it promises to do. The 750cc motor sticks with Guzzi's traditional transverse V-twin configuration and despite looking very similar to the old 750 Nevada motor is actually all-new with fuel injection
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Road Test: Ducati Sport 1000 vs. Triumph Thruxton
By Jon Urry on 13/05/2008 22:59:52
New dogs, old tricks. Does a factory retro sit well in the modern garage?
.Continue reading Road Test: Ducati Sport 1000 vs. Triumph Thruxton
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Living with a 2005 Suzuki DR-Z400SM
By Jon Urry on 16/02/2006 15:27:50
Urry loons around on the supermoto DR-Z400
on (07973) 759222.Engine aside the DR-Z has had a tough month. After taking it to France for the supermoto test in last month's mag I then left it in the office lockup. It subsequently had two weeks as the office hack while I was away. When I came back I
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Living with a 2006 Suzuki GSX-R600 K6
By Jon Urry on 16/07/2006 09:52:38
Urry struggles with paranoia thanks to the GSX-R600
been on holiday to the south of France, which I'm sure it enjoyed as it came back relatively unscathed. Something it didn't enjoy quite as much was the 0-100-0 test that it was involved with. There will be more on this in next month's mag, but basically
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King of Bikes
By Jon Urry on 27/03/2008 14:37:23
Eight bikes, each a winner in its class, slug it out in the ultimate test. BMW R1200GS, Harley-Davidson VRSCA V-ROD, Honda CBR600RR, Kawasaki Z750, Kawasaki ZRX1200R, Suzuki GSX-R1000K5, Triumph Speed Triple, Triumph Sprint ST.
calculator working out which would cost the most to own. With points awarded for each discipline, the coronation ceremony would be for the bike that scored the highest. This is possibly the biggest road test TWO has ever done. The winner surprised some
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Road Test: Middleweight Test
By Jon Urry on 22/04/2008 20:52:45
We put seven of the best naked middleweights through our toughest test ever...
to bring you the biggest and hardest group test TWO has ever done just to split these bikes. We tested seven of the best naked middleweights - three of them brand new for 2004 - from six different manufacturers on the road, track and city streets, as well
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Bloodlust - Honda NR750 vs. Ducati Desmosedici
By Niall Mackenzie and Jon Urry on 19/05/2009 15:30:27
Honda’s NR750 and Ducati’s Desmosedici are two of the most stunning bikes ever built. Each are worth £40,000 and both were developed from pure GP technology. There may be an incredible 16 years between them, but exclusivity this rare is timeless
the Desmosedici RR. The Italian company was going to do what the Japanese never have the balls to - build a MotoGP replica for the road. Four years later Ducati has lived up to its promise and sold all 1,500 Desmosdici RRs. It’s not as exclusive as the NR750
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