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First UK Ride: 2012 Yamaha YZF-R1 review
By Ben Cope on 05/12/2011 21:04:59
We're granted exclusive first UK ride. Yamaha enters the traction control club, revising its flagship sportsbike for 2012. Does it move the game on?
of smoke from the smoke machine and then the covers are whipped off. Ta daa! It's er, the new R1. Is it?Ok, so I made the first paragraph up but it's fair to say its release didn't cause much of a stir on Visordown and I guess it's because the new-for-2012
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Buyer's Guide Review: Kawasaki ZX-7R
By Visordown on 24/01/2012 09:52:10
The ultimate buyer’s guide for the Kawasaki ZX-7R from the people that ride them
is the noise. The airbox snarl sounds like it will rip your face off, while a freer-breathing pipe not only does wonders for weight loss and power gains, but it also helps the motor sound even better.Tuneability? Race teams, club racers, drag tuners and street
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Road Test: Tornado RS V Ducati 999S V MV F4 1000
By Jon Urry, Tim Cummings on 13/04/2008 13:21:13
Once the preserve of the mega rich, these first-generation Italian superbikes can now be snapped up for less than the cost of a new sports 600. Here’s the deal.
in comparison to modern triples. It doesn’t really feel very fast, either. Well not fast in a ‘rip your arms off’ way like the MV. Although not as slow as twins, triples always feel slightly ponderous when compared to inline fours. In a lot of ways this is part
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Road Test: RSV-R Factory v. 999S v. F4 1000R
By Niall Mackenzie on 26/05/2008 13:10:44
Sometimes you've just got to kick back and let rip. Niall Mackenzie blows away the cobwebs at Oulton Park with a fiery threesome of desirable Italian exotica.
here at TWO. But flick back through the last year's worth or so of magazines and you'll find Niall has been starved of track time. The old trout has been off on the odd circuit-based launch, but race track group tests have fallen out of favour of late
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Road Test: Tuono v Duke v Brutale v Speed Triple
By Jon Urry on 27/04/2008 21:07:12
In search of naked satisfaction our lads strip down, strip off and head to the seediest street in Europe, Hamburg's Reeperbahn.
simply ripped a fairing off a sportsbike, fitted flat bars and then covered over the ugly bits on the engine with cheap carbon fibre panels. While the other bikes have a stylish, sculptured look about them, the Tuono is raw and backstreet. It's a true
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An introduction to bike racing. The first race.
By Slenver on 05/06/2006 17:51:23
Right, we've got a bike now, it's time to get on track
. Mine was from the 70s and had spiders living in it but nevertheless provided a tantalising proposition after endless hours in traffic, especially as I'd been off work with man-flu and had come straight from my deathbed to be there. Once set up, we
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Living with a 2008 Suzuki GSX-R750
By Niall Mackenzie on 16/01/2009 12:55:14
Niall Mackenzie reviews the 2008 Suzuki GSX-R750 throughout a year of abuse
before she was ripped from my arms and sent on some European mission where she suffered abuse I don’t even want to talk about.Thankfully she is now back in my arms and after much Muc Off and Motul Shine and Go (I’m addicted to the Satsuma odour) (and
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First Ride: Suzuki GSX1300R Hayabusa
By Jon Urry on 02/04/2008 18:24:39
With a tyre-shredding 194bhp on tap and a fully revised chassis the original Hypersports bike is refusing to grow old gracefully. Hold on tight, because the 'Busa is back and is meaner than ever...
before, meaning you can now actually read the clocks without ducking behind it, and offers a decent amount of wind protection. Even at supersonic speeds you don't have to stoop so low that your chin hits the tank just to prevent your head getting ripped
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Double Ton - cracking the 200mph barrier
By John Hogan on 17/06/2008 14:51:06
Six riders attempt to crack the illusive 200mph barrier at Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground
like I was going to take off. I took a peek at the rev counter and saw that I was doing 11,000rpm in top. This change of focus caused my eyes to blur, and I can remember swearing into my helmet as I approached the braking marker. It felt much faster
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Road Test: Beaujolais Or Bust
By Warren Pole, Colin Goodwin, Adam Harvey, Martin Heath on 22/04/2008 22:24:08
Four men, four bikes, one quest - to bring home the firstbottle of Beaujolais Nouveau 2004 to British shores. The question isn't 'Why?', it's 'Why not?' Allez!
range, and more worried about whether my arms will go the distance - the Multistrada's wide bars may make perfect sense in town and down the backroads, but for extended motorway miles you'd better beef up. Mine are being ripped out of their sockets as I
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