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	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 from the pictures Suzuki has avoided messing with the Bandit's look, as it generally has for the last 12 years! Aesthetically the 2007 bike's hard to split from its predecessor. The fairing, forks, swingarm and frame all look the same at a glance

	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? 's inherent lumpiness we're often left with a dull, characterless engine (think Honda Varadero). Triumph's 1050 triple motor manages to provide bags of torque while still retaining loads of character.And with a claimed 113bhp and 74lb.ft of torque the Tiger

	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. rpmTORQUE - 75.9lb.ft@4750rpmWEIGHT - 177kg SEAT HEIGHT - 820mmFUEL CAPACITY - 16LTOP SPEED - 120mph0-60 - n/aTANK RANGE - N/A

	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. appreciation and exclusivity.VERDICT 4/5 Expensive, exclusive and a (steadily) moving work of art. SPECS TYPE - STREETBIKEPRODUCTION DATE - 2007PRICE NEW - £13,249ENGINE CAPACITY - 1078ccPOWER - 95bhp@7750rpmTORQUE - 75.9lb.ft@4750rpmWEIGHT - 177kg SEAT HEIGHT

	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. cracking motor.Ducati 999S: £13,950. Bigger, but not as trick.2004 Ducati 749R SpecsTYPE - SUPERSPORTS PRODUCTION DATE - 2004 PRICE NEW - £13,595 ENGINE CAPACITY - 749cc POWER - 118bhp@10,250rpm TORQUE - 60lb.ft@8250rpm WEIGHT - 192kg SEAT HEIGHT - 810

	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. sold 1,100 bikes, which represented 16% of its total sales. A few years later (1997) the Triple gained its now iconic twin headlight setup and flat bars before remaining visually fairly similar (barring some vomit-inducing paint schemes) until 2005 when

	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? backlog? Well, the Street Triple’s success caught Triumph on the hop. Sure, they expected it to sell well, but it’s actually the fastest selling Hinckley Triumph ever. This year they sold 7,500 Street Triples globally, with 1,100 of those staying put

	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? ?The Bosch 9M+ is, KTM claim, the most advanced ABS system on the market and is actually a generation ahead of BMW’s S1000RR’s brakes. Adding it to the SMT has only increased the bike’s weight by 1kg (530g is the modulator pump, the rest is additional hoses

	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… .Continue the 2010 Harley-Davidson launch from the Sturgis RallySturgis in NumbersThe record attendance in 2000 was 633,000 Tad Wolf - Tattoo artist who has worked the last 13 consecutive Rallies: “During the Sturgis Rally we run 12 full time tattoo artists

	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. POWER - 113bhp@7500rpmTORQUE - 85lb.ft@6000rpmWEIGHT - 179kgSEAT HEIGHT - 860mmFUEL CAPACITY - 13LTOP SPEED - 137mph0-60 - n/aTANK RANGE - N/A