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Half Price Sale: £5k used sportsbikes
By Jon Urry on 13/08/2010 10:49:09
With new litre sportsbikes costing upwards of £10,000 the used market is booming. But at £5k are these bikes half the performance as well as half the price?
At the moment secondhand dealers are crying out for stock and decent used sportsbikes are the most sought after commodity. The astronomical cost of buying a brand new sportsbike, not to mention the fear of being locked into a potentially tricky finance package when jobs are less ...
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Road test: Aprilia Tuono vs. Triumph Speed Triple
By Jon Urry on 19/12/2008 12:28:04
Last year Aprilia's Tuono and Triumph's Speed Triple topped the street bike sales charts in the UK. What makes these bikes catch rider's imaginations
For all their might and development budgets there’s something the Japanese manufacturers are unable to pump into their bikes at will, and that’s soul.It doesn’t matter if it has toe-curling bhp, suspension that can be adjusted in a multitude of directions or mind-bending futurist...
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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
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First Ride: Honda CBR600RR (2007)
By Niall Mackenzie on 02/04/2008 11:42:59
Yamaha won the supersport 600 sales war in 2006, and Honda is out for revenge. They think the all-new CBR600RR is the tool for the job, and Niall Mackenzie reckons they might be right.
. The parallels continue...In 2006, for the first time in the 600RR's five-year history, Honda failed to top the European sales charts. Yamaha's new R6 did that, and if it hadn't been for a bizarre lack of concentration from Kevin Curtain at last round
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Used Review: Honda VTR1000 SP-1 & SP-2
By Bertie Simmonds on 05/08/2008 22:16:35
Designed to take on and beat the Ducatis in WSB, the SP-1 and SP-2 did just that. But how does it fare in the more cut-throat world of used sales? Bertie Simmonds finds out.
996. It was cheaper though, being under £10K. It won WSB first time out with Colin Edwards, but on the road this thing had more snatch than a porn library and was almost as hairy if you gave it a handful.Thankfully new injector bodies on the SP-2 gave
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Road Test: Tuono R v Z1000 v Duke v Speed Triple
By Jon Urry on 26/05/2008 13:27:27
Although sportsbikes continue to dominate the UK's bike sales market their success is starting to decline.
Compared to last year sportsbike sales are down 4% year on year and there is a definite shift away from race reps to alternative styles. And which style of bike is currently going through the biggest revival? The naked bike.According to official
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Road Test: Real World 600s
By Jon Urry on 03/06/2003 14:54:52
If pound notes are more important than lap times these 600s offer the best compromise of race replica handling with real world practicality. New and secondhand these still top the sales podium
together these five bikes together in one place for us to ride, and the problems we had getting them gives a very good indication of which are the big sellers, but are the big sellers also the best machines?Continue the real world 600s road test
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2010 Honda VFR1200 European launch road test
By Tim Skilton on 11/06/2010 09:12:17
Honda has a lot riding on this one. With dwindling 1000cc supersports sales and an increase in the sports-tourer market, the VFR1200F is arguably the company’s most important new bike for a decade
for engine reliability and performance.Rain pain in SpainSo, here we are in not-so-sunny Southern Spain for the European launch of the VFR1200F. Honda has planned a 200-mile route for us to test the new machine: 60 miles of motorway, around 80 miles of fast A-roads
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Ducati 848 vs. Brands Hatch. Brands wins
By Barry Tavner on 04/11/2010 14:25:24
Highway to Heaven: Six bikes, six roads, six twats, six stories. The ruin of a potentially perfect day at his favourite piece of tarmac in South East England by Mr Barry Tavner
Click to read: Ducati 848 owners reviews, Ducati 848 specs and to see the Ducati 848 image gallery.I picked the 848 for two reasons. It is absolutely, unashamedly beautiful in plain, flat white – simple, uncluttered and pure. If aesthetics is one reason, the second is less shallo...
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First Ride: 2003 Ducati Monster S4R
By Ben Cope on 14/09/2010 11:57:19
With 130,000 sold since 1993, the Monster has been (ahem) a monster success for Ducati. Now here's the sportiest version ever - the S4R
Click to read: Ducati Monster S4R owners reviews, Ducati Monster S4R specs and to see the Ducati Monster S4R image gallery.For me at least, the name Monster has always been a bit of a misnomer, but now I can get a bit fired up about riding a Monster, 'cos there's a new version br...
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