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Real World Superbikes: Honda CB1000R v Kawasaki Z1000
By John Hogan on 11/08/2010 14:45:17
Stick your Alstare Suzuki and your Ten Kate Honda up your jacksy. When the sun’s shining and you’re up for it, there can be few better seats to slide over for a good buzz than Big K’s Z1000 and Honda’s CB1000R
Click to read: Honda CB1000R owners reviewsClick to read: Kawasaki Z1000 owners reviewsI think it’d be wrong to open this test by trying to justify why having either one of these two bikes is a more sensible decision than purchasing their fairing clad forebears. After all, everyb...
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Hogan's Heroes: Track Virgin
By John Hogan on 31/10/2007 14:44:31
Mission 4: Pop track cherry
(lift your arse, move across the seat then place it back down rather than sliding across). Track sessions run in 20-minute blocks which may not sound like much, but when you consider that over the time I was there I racked up around 320 miles on track
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Hogan's Heroes: Trackday virgin
By John Hogan on 01/06/2006 13:36:35
Mission 4: Pop Track Cherry
(lift your arse, move across the seat then place it back down rather than sliding across). Track sessions run in 20-minute blocks which may not sound like much, but when you consider that over the time I was there I racked up around 320 miles on track
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Hogan's Heroes: Flat Track
By John Hogan on 29/11/2009 14:07:55
John Hogan sees if Flat Track really is as cool as it looks. Even if you're rubbish at it
about. I was happy.Once everyone had mastered this we moved to a larger area to get a feel for accelerating out of corners while holding a slide. This was where we had to start applying a bit of technique - if you don't have your right elbow up there isn
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First Ride: Harley-Davidson FXDB Street Bob
By John Hogan on 02/04/2008 16:06:20
Meet Bob he's the biking experience you never knew you wanted.
'Peg darkies' for those of you who don't know, are the result of leaning a bike over and grinding away the end of a rubber footpeg, leaving a long dark line as you go. Not quite as impressive as Toseland power-sliding everywhere like he does
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First Ride: 2008 Harley-Davidson FXDB Street Bob
By John Hogan on 27/05/2008 23:02:54
Meet Bob he's the biking experience you never knew you wanted.
'Peg darkies' for those of you who don't know, are the result of leaning a bike over and grinding away the end of a rubber footpeg, leaving a long dark line as you go. Not quite as impressive as Toseland power-sliding everywhere like he does
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V.Far V-Four: 1000 miles on the Honda VFR1200F
By John Hogan on 04/08/2010 15:20:53
We’ve ridden the VFR1200F a thousand miles on typical UK roads in typical UK weather. Snow, rain, freezing fog and temperatures of barely more than zero answer one question. How real-world-good is the new VFR?
impressed and no messin’.Instead he gets to see me after a 154-day lay-off from riding, on a fully fuelled 285kg super tourer in three inches of snow, sliding gracelessly and squeaking like a girl toward him. Picture an un-oiled Tin Man entering Dancing
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The White Helmets motorcycle display team
By John Hogan on 22/10/2010 11:37:08
The White Helmets display team have been entertaining kids at military tattoos for over 90 years. But in this day of psycho freestylers aren’t they just relics, a total anachronism?
then progress to learning a couple of simple stunts, such as wheelies and slides. To finish the course riders take part in a small demonstration of their new-found abilities, but even after that it isn’t a given that they will have a place on the team. Personal
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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
have found it hard not to be a little giddy with the achievement!" Lucy cracked 200mph - Hogan didn'tTHE FORMER PROJAMES WHITHAMAGE: 40PROFESSION: MOTORCYCLE COMMENTATOR, FORMER RACERHIGHEST PREVIOUS TOP SPEED: 198MPHAMBITION: 8/10CONFIDENCE: 10/10TOP
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