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How to ruin a Ducati Monster 1100
By Visordown News on 06/07/2009 14:50:16
French fashion design guru Christian Audigier turns his hand to Ducati's Monster with questionable results
the awful graphics, the spec isn't too bad, it features a single-sided swingarm, Ohlins front suspension, Ohlins TTX rear suspension, BST carbon fibre wheels, Rizoma controls, magnesium engine cases, performance cam shafts, an STM slipper clutch and a full
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The clever bits of the new Honda VFR1200
By Mark Forsyth on 07/06/2010 14:31:05
...and some of the (maybe) too clever bits, like the ABS. Whatever happened to a front brake lever that gives you all the front brake?
Cat than being big for big’s sake. Like that on Aprilia’s RSV4 and the new Harleys, it features a servo-operated flap to kill the decibels at low revs5. Clutch and transmissionThe manual VFR gets a mechanical slipper clutch and four drive-train dampers
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Bridgestone BT-002 review
By Jon Urry on 15/10/2006 10:17:52
Bridgestone launches its new Racing Street tyres - road-legal rubber aimed predominantly at track day riders in search of serious grip
in them, and certainly enough for a few more track days.For fast track riding and very occasional road use the Racing Streets are certainly worth trying.BT-002 Racing Streets are available in 120/70-17 fronts and 180/55-17, 190/50-17 and, later in the year
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What’s MotoGP ever done for us?
By Bertie Simmonds on 30/04/2010 12:21:11
How comparable is a £3 million MotoGP weapon to your sportsbike? Since 2002 technology has filtered down from the best teams in the world, more so than you might imagine
to Loris Capirossi about the feeling he got from the front-end of a road bike on BT-016s. He said that the carcass felt so similar, and his experience on the Bridgestone GP slicks is immense. And where have slipper clutches come from? We’ve also got radial
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Tracing the Crosstourer's V4 DNA
By mark forsyth on 23/02/2012 10:19:43
Part One: Ninety degree Vee
over the back tyre and down I went at the first turn. The shortest race debut for any factory bike, I think.The power started at about 12,500rpm and finished at 17,500. Although it’d rev to 22,500rpm, there was no point because it was all over by 17,500
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One Fine Day
By Jon Urry on 28/03/2008 17:49:37
To discover the best 10-mile stretch of road anywhere in the UK you have to go to Loch Leven in Scotland. But it's worth the ride. We whipped the brand new Street Triple, the manic KTM690SM and the glorious GSX-R750K7 into a frenzy
/ATOP SPEED - N/A0-60 - n/aTANK RANGE - N/ASuzuki TYPE - SUPERSPORTSPRODUCTION DATE - 2007PRICE NEW - £7949ENGINE CAPACITY - 749ccPOWER - 133.2bhp@11,500rpmTORQUE - 66.5lb.ft@8700rpmWEIGHT - 163kgSEAT HEIGHT - 810mmFUEL CAPACITY - N/ATOP SPEED - N/A0-60 - n
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Field of Dreams
By Stuart Barker on 22/10/2007 15:24:09
An empty field and a beaten-up moped. It's how most of us first began our love affair with biking and a rite of passage we will never forget. TWO celebrates the cult of the fieldbike
one would you?The Raleigh Wisp - another first time bike for many - actually started life as a pushbike. Dubbed the RSW16 before Raleigh had the genius idea in 1967 of installing an engine, it only had 1.4bhp on tap and a top speed of 30mph. However
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