Ride articles by jon urry in road tests - Page 7

Keywords:
Sort by:

61 to 70 of 188 results

Page:

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
+10
Last


	First Ride: 2007 Suzuki Bandit 650 By Jon Urry on 02/04/2008 14:49:15 Old faithful returns with a new jacket, starched braces and a spanking new motor I remember the first time I saw my dad wearing jeans. He just looked wrong. Dad's from a generation of slack-wearers, not denim, and him in Levi's finest looked as out of place as a Casio watch in a Ben-Hur film.But progress and the passing of time catch up with us all, and in 20...

	First Ride: 2006 Triumph Tiger 1050 By Jon Urry on 02/04/2008 18:53:05 Triumph's Tiger sheds the big trailie looks, sharpens its claws and goes for a more road-inspired image. Is this the right direction for Hinckley's big cat? raining until we left.And that means this is less of a comprehensive first test and more of a first impression.Sorry, but the weather really was that bad and I wouldn't like to even pretend I pushed things that hard. At all.So what are those first

	First Ride: 2007 Bimota DB6 Delirio By Jon Urry on 18/03/2008 20:46:37 Who the hell let Urry out on a bike that expensive? He'll bring down Lloyds of London if he falls off. Over £13,000 sits between Urry's clenched arse cheeksSOMEONE once described Bimotas to me as 'a collection of quality parts bolted together with cheese'. Which certainly used to be the case. Bimotas were revered not only for their sweet handling

	First Ride: 2007 Bimota DB6 Delirio By Jon Urry on 02/04/2008 15:36:24 Who the hell let Urry out on a bike that expensive? He'll bring down Lloyds of London if he falls off. road bike motor. It's not the fastest by a long shot but Ducati has concentrated on giving the 1100 a wide spread of torque as well as a very slick gearbox. In first gear the instant punch is enough to lift the front wheel without trying and at all

	First Ride: 2004 Ducati 749R By Jon Urry on 30/03/2008 20:50:17 Following its launch at a soggy Valencia, we try Ducati's beautiful 749R in the dry at Donington. There are some lessons in life that you learn the hard way. Accidentally urinating on an electric fence is one of them, drinking too much cheap cider is another and trying to out-brake Niall Mackenzie is one that I learnt while riding Ducati's 749R

	First Ride: 2008 Triumph Speed Triple By Jon Urry on 10/04/2008 21:43:07 It’s Triumph best selling bike, a style icon, movie star and it’s still only 14 years old. Life is anything but dull with the Speed Triple as Jon Urry finds out on the roads of Lanzarote. quite a lot of time riding all of the current large naked bikes I’ve developed quite a soft spot for the Speed Triple. It’s not the best handling bike in its class, that award goes to the 990 Super Duke, but it’s got the best road manners of the bunch

	First Ride: 2008 Triumph Street Triple R By Jon Urry on 10/11/2008 11:15:24 The Street Triple is already Triumph's best selling bike ever, but will this hotted-up version cause more sales to flood in? stands if you try and order one in white or black, the most popular colours, it should arrive sometime in January, perfect timing to enjoy those freezing UK roads while the salt eats away at anything metallic. Want it a bit sooner? Well, if your choice

	First Ride: KTM 990SMT ABS By Jon Urry on 27/01/2011 16:56:44 KTM add ABS to their all-rounder, so, the big question: is it any good? ) which is very impressive, but most importantly of all it works very well.On the wet Spanish roads we had more than enough opportunity to test the ABS and it was hard to fault. To me an ideal ABS system is one that you have no idea is fitted until you

	First Ride: 2010 Harley-Davidson Range By Jon Urry on 19/10/2010 09:14:01 For the launch of its new 2010 models Harley-Davidson decided to give the assembled journalists the ‘full Harley experience.’ So they took them to Sturgis… by launching the bikes in the local area and organising a route that involved the twisting roads of the Black Hills before culminating in us being dumped right in the centre of all the action – Sturgis’ Main Street.The logic behind this decision was not only

	First Ride: 2007 BMW HP2 Megamoto By Jon Urry on 28/03/2008 11:03:01 With only 30 in the country and a stratospheric price tag of £12,595, the Megamoto is as exclusive as it is rampant. Get ready to spend your city bonus. irksome, although the rich city lads who buy this bike won't care. It is, after all, about short, furious rides kicking the hell out of sportsbikes on smaller roads.If you live in the UK this is probably one of the most aspiratonal bikes around