Comfort and speed, with a dash of great handling are some of the ingredients that make up the perfect sports orientated tourer. Today's Top 10 is a breakdown of the best sports tourers that you can buy.Sports-tourer buying advice.With buyers of new

Having already added the capable RoadAttack all-season sport-touring tyre to head the existing ContiForce model range, the low profile German manufacturer is out to prove they can now mix it with the more glamorous names in rubber. But they'll have

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APART FROM THE absence of a fairing, the most obvious difference between the Sport and the LE is the unfaired bike's cheaper, less adjustable suspension. Dry weight is down by two kilos to 179kg, no doubt thanks to the lack of fairing. Since both

Click to read: BMW HP2 Sport owners reviews, BMW HP2 Sport specs and to see the BMW HP2 Sport image gallery.Flicking the ignition on the impossibly trick 2D digital display glows into life while an array of LED lights illuminate the inside

.June 2006I'VE BEEN QUITE busy with my Sport 1000 - polishing, poking and mainly looking. At weekends I spend a lot of time slipping out to the shed with a cuppa and simply gazing at it.I've broken out the tool kit too (against better judgement) and with my

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

if your hands and feet are made of lead, you will be able to perform risk-free emergency stops on polished ice without coming to grief. Very, very clever.The combined braking system overcomes the weight pitching issue of a sports bike under heavy braking

Just what is a sports-tourer these days? Used to be a middle-for-diddle model with zero sex appeal, but these days it could be anything from a superbike with luggage to a purpose-built mile-muncher...There was a time when motorcycles were grouped

that the MotoGP rule-makers don't. What is more likely to be a new lower-cc sports bike adopting the styling of the Austrian firm's Moto3 racer and sticking in a 350cc single-cylinder lump - harking back to the GP-inspired 250cc two-strokes that were lusted over