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	First Ride: 2001 Ducati 620ie Monster By Jon Urry on 27/03/2008 21:20:35 Jon Urry tests out the Ducati 620ie Monster , so despite being Italian, subtlety is the by-word here.The frame is still a steel-tubed trellis, but now derived from the liquid-cooled S4 Monster. Rear suspension now comes from Ducati's superbike family with the S getting a ride height adjuster

	First Ride: 2004 BMW K1200S By Jon Urry on 30/03/2008 20:39:18 Heralded as the sportiest BMW motorbike ever, can the K 1200 S really rival the current hyper-sports bikes? Jon Urry travels to Munich to sample the delights of the German Autobahn and Austrian curves to say I was really looking forward to riding the new bike, and where better to launch a hyper-sports bike than Germany with its unrestricted speed limits and neighbouring Austria with its twisty Alpine roads?After the traditional dull German presentation

	First Ride: 2005 Yamaha MT-01 By Jon Urry on 31/03/2008 20:28:22 It's big and bold, but is Yamaha's design-leading naked bike any good or just the product of an overactive imagination?Jon Urry travels to South Africa in search of answers. !Personally I have never experienced Kodo (not knowingly, anyway) so I can't tell you if the MT-01 has it or not, but what I can tell you is that riding this new naked bruiser from Yamaha is a completely different experience to that of other naked bikes

	First Ride: 2007 Kawasaki ZX-6R By Jon Urry on 02/04/2008 12:27:37 Harder, sharper and more track focused than ever before. The new ZX-6R challenges you to a fight down at your local race track. He who reaches his limit first, loses. to the forks and raised the rear ride height 2mm. Sorry, no heated grips, best only on touring bikes." Brilliant!Okay, hands up, I'm out of my depth here. But sod it, I'm enjoying the ride so I'm going to live the fantasy. You see for the launch of the 2007

	First Ride: 2006 Kawasaki ER-6F By Jon Urry on 12/05/2008 22:27:11 Less self-consciously 'funky' thank its unfaired sibling - but has Kawasaki's new twin got what it takes to beat Suzuki's SV650S? , February '06), the SV actually weighs less - but on the road the ER feels lighter.Although in a straight head-to-head the SV's chassis offers a sportier ride, through tight corners the ER requires virtually no effort to get it to change direction, aided

	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? I've been waiting to ride Triumph's Street Triple for about two years, ever since the Daytona 675 was launched. When I first saw that bike I emailed the guys at Triumph and asked if I could get one of them, strip its fairing off and fit a set

	First Ride: 2007 Triumph Speed Triple By Jon Urry on 02/04/2008 17:44:21 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... I've been waiting to ride Triumph's Street Triple for about two years, ever since the Daytona 675 was launched. When I first saw that bike I emailed the guys at Triumph and asked if I could get one of them, strip its fairing off and fit a set

	First Ride: 2004 Ducati 999R By Jon Urry on 30/03/2008 22:03:19 When the going gets tough, Ducati brings out a new model to beat the opposition. Cheating? No, just bending the rules... .Fortunately, the lightweight (181kg dry) Ducati's radial Brembos were predictably sharp, as was the rest of its chassis. Set up racy with extra rear ride height, plus its steering at the steeper, 23.5° angle, the R was deliciously flickable, even through the gut

	First Ride: 2006 Moto Morini Corsaro 1200 By Jon Urry on 22/09/2010 14:00:00 With pre-production faults gone will the Corsaro hit or miss in the UK bike pond? . It's hard work to ride and very aggressive, but if you like that sort of thing it isn't badly priced, looks well built and is rare enough to be a talking point. For a gentle day-to-day bike go for the Speed Triple, or a big retro such as the CB1300

	First Ride: Ducati 749S review By Jon Urry on 14/09/2010 16:50:28 Ducati's tweaked baby supersport twin gets a new kick in the pants and better suspension for 2004 .But the Ducati 749S makes this kind of behaviour almost compulsory, it is just so easy and confidence inspiring to ride on a track. And it also leans over further than any bike has a right to do on standard tyres.So what's the secret behind it? Well it's four