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CCM RM30, KTM 520EXC, KTM Duke II, VOR 503SM
By Stuart Barker on 19/04/2008 22:10:19
Chris Walker's used to sliding bikes but this is out of control. As he flashes into view, out of the forest behind, there's a violent, rasping bark from his KTM's carbon can as the bike slews sideways.
roads when the last Panda car was decommissioned.Continue the wild supermoto test
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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
clad forebears. After all, everybody knows the only people that buy new litre sportsbikes nowadays don’t need to bother with magazine road tests. They already know all there is to know about bikes, right?Every time I try and ride a modern sportsbike
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Road Test: CBR1000RR v ZX-10R v GSX-R1000K6 v R1
By Jon Urry on 18/05/2008 16:53:33
1000cc sports bikes go ballistic to Majorca. Does the water taste like what it oughta?
the road. A schoolboy braking error on a very wet motorway locked the front wheel, precipitating a long and graceless slide. Considering the, um, speed at which all this occured - or at least began - the Fireblade came out well. When James Whitham himself
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First Ride: Benelli Tornado Tre
By Jon Urry on 13/09/2010 14:07:35
Benelli boss Andrea Merloni describes the Tornado as his 'crazy project'. After four years in development this bike will either make or break his company.
the chassis owes all of its development to the World Superbike team.While on television it may have looked like the Tornado was struggling and off the pace Benelli was actually using all the track testing time and race data to perfect the chassis of the road
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First Ride: Husqvarna Nuda 900R
By mark forsyth on 28/10/2011 12:42:24
Knobs, bells and whistles for £9,295
With a race track that's neither fully wet, nor fully dry all we can test in the first of the three sessions on the 900R is tooth grinding and breath holding. The R runs different mapping to the standard Nuda and a tooth off the gearbox sprocket
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First Ride: Ducati Sport 1000S
By Jon Urry on 02/04/2008 12:18:52
Achingly beautiful, plain aching to ride. Another classic stunner from Italy.
adopt a Paul Smart-esque race crouch that is, and slide back in the seat, rest your chin on the tank and get right under that monstrous slice of retro perspex.Click here for the Ducati Sport 1000S review page 2 of 2.
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First Ride: 2007 Yamaha FZ6 Fazer S2
By Tim Dickson on 02/04/2008 12:43:08
Yamaha's breezy, breathless middleweight gets some minor updates and a slightly longer name. A dash of midrange would be nice, too. Will it be enough to rule the morning dash to work?
calipers seen on the original FZS Fazer but curiously replaced on previous FZ6s with less-effective sliding pin calipers. ABS is now an option too, but not on the bike tested here.The half-faired Fazer S2's riding position is slightly different with a
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First Ride: Kawasaki Z750S
By Jon Urry on 27/04/2008 22:45:57
Kawasaki sticks a fairing on the excellent Z750 in an effort to appeal to the more practically minded rider. Has it worked?
There's something not quite right here. It feels like a rather intimate part of my body is being crushed. Yep, that's it. I'm gradually sliding forward over my spuds. How is this happening?Riding along the A3 I'm in a certain amount of distress
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First Ride: Harley-Davidson Electra Glide
By Warren Pole on 13/01/2011 22:59:21
... and watch the world glide by. Sometimes getting somewhere slowly is more important than going nowhere fast. Harley-Davidson has the answer.
and the same vastly comfortable riding slouch to slide into.And then there's the stereo. Oh Lordy is it good now. Crisp and clear up to 85mph, with an auto volume control which adjusts with speed meaning no more arriving at traffic lights and deafening anyone
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House of Fun - 750cc Sports bikes
By Warren Pole on 05/10/2003 10:29:16
Overlooked by fashion, out-classed on the racetrack, is there any point in a modern day 750? Wozza and co thrash the cream of the crop to find out
for the annual 750s group test in ever-more-sophisticated company to collect yet another wooden spoon.But that was then. With the slide of the 750 class as a whole we can take a more indulgent look at the ZX, taking it on face value for what it is, rather than
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