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	Half Price Sale: £5k used sportsbikes By Jon Urry on 13/08/2010 10:49:09 With new litre sportsbikes costing upwards of £10,000 the used market is booming. But at £5k are these bikes half the performance as well as half the price? At the moment secondhand dealers are crying out for stock and decent used sportsbikes are the most sought after commodity. The astronomical cost of buying a brand new sportsbike, not to mention the fear of being locked into a potentially tricky

	Road Test: 2004 600cc sportsbike review By Jon Urry, James Whitham on 22/04/2008 19:48:20 Take the best 600 sportsbikes in the world to a circuit for three days, put them on identical tyres, add thirteen journalists from ten different countries and you have the most comprehensive test ever The Supertest began as an idea last year between Spanish magazines Solo Moto and el Periodico, Portuguese mag Motojornal, Italian magazine La Moto and Visordown. The idea of the test was to put all of the very best sportsbikes head-to-head on track

	Road Test: Tuono R v Z1000 v Duke v Speed Triple By Jon Urry on 26/05/2008 13:27:27 Although sportsbikes continue to dominate the UK's bike sales market their success is starting to decline. Compared to last year sportsbike sales are down 4% year on year and there is a definite shift away from race reps to alternative styles. And which style of bike is currently going through the biggest revival? The naked bike.According to official

	To Hell and Back - Derbi GPR50, Aprilia SXV, Quadzilla By Andy Stevens, Jon Urry, Jon Bentman on 30/03/2010 09:27:22 A journey of pain, suffering and 573 miles to Cornwall on a temperamental supermoto, a 50cc sportsbike and an unstable quad. The village of Helland sits in the middle of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall and is home to just 103 people. Apart from a bridge, an old arboretum and a posh manor house called Pencarrow which showcases a magnificent collection of antique dolls, there isn't much going on here. There's no...

	First Ride: 2005 Ducati 999 By Jon Urry on 30/03/2008 21:50:04 Ducati's flagship sportsbike gets a new look as well as a whole load more power for 2005. Jon Urry samples the delights of the new 999 Ducati's 999 hasn't exactly set the world on fire since its launch in late 2002. While its predecessor, the 916, caused queues in dealers when it was launched in 1994, public reaction to Pierre Terreblanche's development of Massimo Tamburini's classic has been cool.Despite the 99...

	First Ride: 2007 Triumph Street Triple By Jon Urry on 28/03/2008 14:22:19 With £2,000 taken out of the Daytona 675's price tag is Triumph's Street Triple the bargain sportsbike of 2007, or have the boys from Hinckley cut corners on their new middleweight triple? stripped to the bone Daytona 675. Why is this amazing? Well, despite costing nearly £2,000 less than the Daytona at £5,349 the Street Triple shares nearly all of the sportsbike's major components. The chassis, engine, wheels and dash are straight off

	First Ride: 2007 Triumph Speed Triple By Jon Urry on 02/04/2008 17:44:21 With £2,000 taken out of the Daytona 675's price tag is Triumph's Street Triple the bargain sportsbike of 2007? Or have the boys from Hinckley cut corners on their new middleweight triple... stripped to the bone Daytona 675. Why is this amazing? Well, despite costing nearly £2,000 less than the Daytona at £5,349 the Street Triple shares nearly all of the sportsbike's major components. The chassis, engine, wheels and dash are straight off

	Road Test: 2004 Supersports Test - 1000'S By Jon Urry, James Whitham on 22/04/2008 20:22:26 Take sixteen of the best sportsbikes in the world to a circuit for three days, put them on identical tyres, add thirteen journalists from ten different countries and you have the most comprehensive test ever. The Supertest began as an idea last year between Spanish magazines Solo Moto and el Periodico, Portuguese mag Motojornal, Italian magazine La Moto and Two Wheels Only. The idea of the test was to put all of the very best sportsbikes head

	Retro File: 1992 Honda Fireblade CBR900RR By Jon Urry on 24/09/2010 16:34:51 For too long superbikes were about nothing but power. Then, in 1992, Honda launched the FireBlade and laid down the template for the modern sportsbike. Now the RR-N is a hugely desirable classic performance bike Click to read: 1992 Honda Fireblade CBR900RR owners reviews, 1992 Honda Fireblade CBR900RR specs and to see the 1992 Honda Fireblade CBR900RR image gallery.In the late 1980s Honda entrusted the development of its new inline four sportsbike to a

	Honda Fireblade History: The Gathering By Jon Urry on 05/11/2004 11:46:41 There's no bigger name when it comes to big sportsbikes than the FireBlade, and that was all the excuse we needed to line up every model since 1992 for a right good knees up at the wooded and wicked Oulton Park Big sportsbikes are separated into two eras. Pre-Blade and post-Blade. You see, some big sports machines may have won more races, plenty have cost an awful lot more and, at times, others have bested the 'Blade, but no bike has set the sporting cat