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First Ride: 2004 BMW R1100S Boxer Cup Replika
By Niall Mackenzie on 30/03/2008 21:37:30
BMW's take on 'race bike for the road' makes a refreshing change from the usual Jap fare.
miles under my belt in the hope I'd acclimatise myself to the big Bee Emm before racing one at the British GP round of the BoxerCup race series. But I got more than I bargained for. In the space of a few days I experienced my biggest ever 'Oh shit
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Pleasure Island - 2003 TT Test
By Jon Urry on 05/11/2003 12:14:13
We took the four road-going versions from 2003's TT winning bikes together with two TT specialists, back to the home of road racing
.McGuinness was the first rider on the scene and quite how he managed to carry on racing that week let alone win a TT race having seen the body of one of his best friends lying in the road demonstrates the mental toughness needed to compete at the TT.Joining TWO
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First Ride: 2006 Yamaha YZF-R6 review
By Jon Urry on 20/09/2010 22:11:15
The R6 is reborn with a competition-bred 'no compromise' attitude. But is all this race-ready technology a step too far for the road?
compromise' with the R6 (and it's still called the R6, not the R6R, as was rumoured). Yamaha wants it to win races, loads of them, so it has allowed its engineers to design the bike with race wins in mind as well as full access to MotoGP technology. Once
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Ready to Race with Triumph's Speed Triple
By Jon Urry on 15/04/2010 13:52:24
Triumph’s Street Triple beats the competition on the road, but how about on the track? We enter a completely bog stock street triple into a national race to find out
the scene last year the Street Triple has beaten the hell out of all the other streetbike middleweights when it comes to group tests on the road. I freely admit to loving the bike and was intrigued to see how it, and myself, would do in a proper race
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First Ride: CCM 404DS
By Niall Mackenzie on 05/11/2003 11:41:49
Our Niall has a bit of history with off-road specialists CCM - they gave him a break into racing, and he's owned one of their bikes. Before they knew it he was riding their new 404DS
plucked me from obscurity and for four years allowed me to hone my racing skills on their carbon fibre racers. After winning four British Championships, I jumped ship toHRC in 1987 and soon after they reverted back to their original name and off-road roots
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Road Test: Over the top
By Warren Pole on 20/09/2010 11:11:08
Welcome to the Road Racing Capital of the World. They cancelled the 2001 Isle of Man TT races, so we decided to have our very own production TT Test. GSX-R1000, Yamaha R1, FireBlade and Kawasaki ZX-9R thrashed around the 37-mile course.
the ulltimate test of the ultimate motorcycles. David Jefferies, Ian Lougher, Jim Hodson and John McGuiness were to race an R1, GSX-R1000, ZX-9R and FireBlade respectively at the TT this year.When the races were cancelled due to the hand to mouth crisis
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Supersport Superstars - 2005 600cc test
By Jon Urry on 01/03/2005 12:09:13
How do you split five of the best supersport machines ever made? It's not easy, but using two of the UK's most successful and experienced racers, a Spanish race track and a day's riding on dry mountain roads is certainly a good start...
Sitting in a Spanish bar following two days of testing the new breed of 600s on both the track and road, we still haven't come to a conclusion. There are two pressing questions. First, who is our favourite film star and secondly, which is the best
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Road Test: Supersport Superstars
By Jon Urry, Niall Mackenzie, James Whitham on 24/04/2008 18:56:19
How do you split five of the best supersport machines ever made? It's not easy, but using two of the UK's most successful and experienced racers, a Spanish race track and a day's riding on dry mountain roads is certainly a good start...
Sitting in a Spanish bar following two days of testing the new breed of 600s on both the track and road, we still haven't come to a conclusion. There are two pressing questions. First, who is our favourite film star and secondly, which is the best
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First Ride: 2006 Honda Fireblade
By Niall Mackenzie on 20/09/2010 22:47:05
It wasn't broken but Honda fixed it anyway. Niall plays 'spot the difference' with a freshly honed 2006 Fireblade
Yamaha launched its original R1 in 1997 we congratulated it on giving us the most exciting road bike ever. Over the next four years it gradually sedated this fine tool before finally re-fitting excitement and character for '04. Since '02 Suzuki has been
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First Ride: 2002-03 Aprilia RSV-R Mille
By Warren Pole on 29/03/2008 19:29:06
What on earth could Aprilia do to improve their already-ace Mille-R? Not an enormous amount as I discovered at the launch of the 2003 bike in Italy.
, and generally getting into the swing of things.All I could say was that the bike felt more softly-sprung than the 2002 R I'd raced at Oulton Park the weekend before but then as we'd spent a full day beforehand setting that one up while the launch bike was pretty
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