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Living with excess: 2006 Kawasaki ZZR1400
By Tim Dickson on 28/03/2010 10:11:42
Special excess: a claimed 197bhp
is usable and massively entertaining. Add to that everything else it does so well and excess never seemed so appealing.Friday 28 July, 2006. Take ZZR1400 back to Kawasaki. "Er, can I maybe keep it just a bit longer..?"Kawasaki Kawasaki ZZR1400 Specifications
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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?
Not an exotic, far-flung track launch of a long awaited sports tool, this. Sorry. Instead we've got a minor update to the nice, sensible sort of bike your mother would want you to ride. This here is the slightly different Yamaha FZ6 Fazer S2. The oft maligned FZ6 Fazer has taken ...
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First Ride: 2007 BMW K1200R Sport
By Tim Dickson on 02/04/2008 12:50:25
Have the crazy Germans come up trumps with an entertaining, oddball parts bin special? BMW's K1200R Sport has arrived
It's barely spring and BMW has had a busy year already. First a new family of funky single-cylinder 650s - the G-series - and now, at the other end of the performance scale, we get this, the K1200R Sport. BMW's latest K-series inline four is refreshingly indefinable. Is it a nake...
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First Ride: 2005 Ducati S2R
By Tim Dickson on 30/03/2008 22:24:27
Ducati's latest take on the Monster theme is a refreshing mix of old and new, with up-to-the-minute styling married to a simple, effective air-cooled motor. And it's bang on the money
are too stiff. Specifically, they feel way overdamped. The springs don't seem to be to blame as there's adequate sag at a standstill, and on smooth roads there's no problem at all, but the front end struggles to cope with road imperfections. Bumps
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Road Test: Aprilia Pegaso 650 Strada
By Tim Dickson on 27/04/2008 21:42:41
Aprilia's Pegaso is re-born for a new generation of style-conscious funky stunters, and it's not half bad for the rest of us, either. The road-ready supermoto just got practical
Supermoto S2 title in 2004.Motive power actually comes from Yamaha, specifically the Italian-built XT lump. There isn't quite the punch you might expect from tickover, and it needs 3000rpm showing to really start to move. Give too much of a handful below
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Road Test: Honda Goldwing vs. Triumph Rocket III
By Tim Dickson on 26/05/2008 20:54:31
It's a monster mash touring bash on the mightiest mile-eaters motorcycling can muster. Wallflowers need not apply.
Way down in the south of France there's a secret village up on a hill, overlooking a secluded cape where the President of France has a hidden holiday home next to a concealed beach. The village itself is all steep, narrow streets, hanging baskets, pastel walls and terracotta roof...
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Road Test: R1200S v. RSV-R v. CBR1000RR v. 955i
By Tim Dickson on 20/05/2008 10:17:35
BMW wants us to know their new R1200S is very much a sports bike. But by whose reckoning? Theirs or ours? Sporting all-sorts go to the Alps to find out. And not a race track in sight...
it first when the bike arrived at the office. Everyone was asking: "What's it like?" And it's like... a BMW. More specifically, it's like a Boxer BMW. That means you have the combination of flat twin power and the weirdly un-involving sensations delivered
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Road Test: XB12R vs. VTR1000 vs. SV1000
By Tim Dickson on 07/05/2008 20:42:35
Would ewe believe it? You can get a 1000cc twin for less than seven grand. Should we flock to buy them or are we baa-king up the wrong tree? We go to Wales to find out.
"Are they still making these, then?" We're standing on a bright, mid-Wales hilltop and Niall is kicking the VTR1000's tyres with a puzzled look on his face. Yes, they are.It's a beautiful day to be pondering bikes - the FireStorm, a Buell XB12R Firebolt and Suzuki's SV1000SZ - an...
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Road Test: K1200GT v CBF1000F v KTM990 v GSX-R600
By Tim Dickson on 27/01/2011 14:14:16
Going touring? You need a big bike, panniers and a top box. Or do you? From full-on sports tool to fully laden mile eater, via adventure tourer and slick all-rounder, the choice is yours. Team Visordown packs its bags and heads south.
Go somewhere, go anywhere, get away, just get on your bike and get lost. You can go touring on anything - it just depends on how far you want to go and what you want to do when you get there. Does 'touring' mean heading somewhere to see sights and views and places? Or seeking out...
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Road Test: 2005 1000cc Superbike Review
By Tim Dickson on 27/04/2008 20:26:21
There's a stretch of autoroute south of Clermont Ferrand that is the perfect tonic to the preceding several hundred miles of motorway monotony - if riding four of the world's finest litre bikes can ever be considered monotonous.
There's a stretch of autoroute south of Clermont Ferrand that is the perfect tonic to the preceding several hundred miles of motorway monotony - if riding four of the world's finest litre bikes can ever be considered monotonous. As the A75 runs south alongside the meandering rive...
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