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First Ride: 2007 BMW HP2 Megamoto
By Jon Urry on 28/03/2008 11:03:01
With only 30 in the country and a stratospheric price tag of £12,595, the Megamoto is as exclusive as it is rampant. Get ready to spend your city bonus.
-lb of torque thanks to a tweaked and wonderfully revvy Boxer engine. Hand-built and balanced by BMW's special projects department at their Munich factory, the HP2 designers have specifically designed it for maximum responsiveness. This is a BMW brimming
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First Ride: BMW HP2 Megamoto
By Jon Urry on 02/04/2008 17:26:41
BMW launch their most radical, stripped-down bike ever. With only 30 in the country and a stratospheric price tag of £12,595, the Megamoto is as exclusive as it is rampant. Get ready to spend your city bonus.
and wonderfully revvy Boxer engine. Hand-built and balanced by BMW's special projects department at their Munich factory, the HP2 designers have specifically designed it for maximum responsiveness. This is a BMW brimming with character, technical know
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Compression ratios explained
By Tim Dickson on 22/10/2007 15:47:18
Fuels rush in, then they get squashed into a tiny space and ignited. The mysteries of compression ratios investigated and unravelled
fuel to run safely. STATIC V DYNAMIC COMPRESSION RATIOSThings are never as simple as they first appear. The compression ratio quoted in technical specification panels is only part of the story. That compression ratio figure is actually what is referred
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First Ride: 2006 Yamaha FZ-1
By RobHoyles on 31/07/2004 23:32:02
Rob Hoyles rides the all-new FZ-1 in South Africa
bike go like? The replacement for the popular FZS1000 Fazer, the new machine boasts specifications that were once the sole preserve of out-and-out sports bikes. The chassis has been brought bang up to date, using the same CF die-casting techniques
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Road Test: Harley-Davidson Street Rod v. Yamaha R1
By Jon Urry on 26/05/2008 13:39:21
One man's floor is another man's ceiling. The words 'sports bike' can mean very different things, so we compare two contrasting takes takes on a common theme.
-been seeking easy going type with GSOH and reasonable sporting ability.'The purpose of combining a Yamaha R1 and Harley Street Rod on the same pages is not to put them through pointless rigorous testing, as you only need to look at the technical specifications
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First Ride: 2008 Kawasaki ZX-10R
By Simon Bowen on 10/04/2008 22:30:57
Jim Bowen managed to completely spanner a ZX-10R the last time we put him on one. He has never been to the Qatar MotoGP circuit. So, who better to make a complete arse of himself...
. No such problems here as the bikes are fitted with Pirelli Diablo Super Corsa’s on the first day and a softer version developed specifically for this circuit on day two. So, what have Kawasaki done to address the criticisms of the 2006 model? Well, there seems
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Jamie Whitham Column - Sep 2001
By Jamie Whitham on 01/09/2001 14:20:08
GPs are going to lose two-strokes and Foggy celebrates his 36th (40th!) birthday
of you." So she brought out all these sweets, one for each of us specifically, even though she didn't know any of us from Adam the day before. It were dead weird. The food was absolutely fantastic but I just couldn't move for two whole days afterwards
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Obsession: Full Factory Fetish
By Mark Forsyth on 30/07/2010 09:26:42
Libraries normally smell of dusty, musty books. Not Chris Wilson’s. His has an envy inducing collection of factory race bikes
to work on Jaguars with the specific intent to, “to get some money – which I pissed away.”Then after a short stint back at Stansted he moved on to Africa and South America to work as a ‘flying spanner’ on 707s for nine years. A short spell at Gatwick ‘the
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2010 MV Agusta F4 1000 Mallory Park track test
By Mark Forsyth on 24/06/2010 12:07:49
Categorically better than its predecessor and properly in contention in the exalted company of the other European exotics. It filled Whit with confidence – and that is quite some recommendation
cramped for the very tallRating: 4/5Return to Euro Exotica2010 MV Agusta F4 1000 SpecificationsPrice £14,250Top speed 185mph Engine 998cc, 16-valve, liquid-cooled inline four Bore x stroke 76mm x 55mm Compression ratio 13.1:1Power 186bhp at 12,900rpm
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MV Agusta Brutale 675 revealed
By Visordown News on 04/11/2011 12:13:24
Only £7999. For an MV.
and the clean lines that are fundamental on a naked bike. Brutale 675, the most powerful Italian three cylinder ever.ELECTRONICSThe most advanced electronic engine control system ever seen on a middle-weight naked has been designed specifically
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