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First Ride: 2008 Triumph Speed Triple
By Jon Urry on 10/04/2008 21:43:07
It’s Triumph best selling bike, a style icon, movie star and it’s still only 14 years old. Life is anything but dull with the Speed Triple as Jon Urry finds out on the roads of Lanzarote.
top end power, just constant drive. So what if it ‘only’ makes 131bhp (or 117bhp in reality at the rear wheel) how many times do you really want to go over 100mph on a street bike? Not many I’d wager. Street bikes are ridden at lower speeds
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Best of British
By Jon Urry on 01/03/2007 23:36:25
There are still a few bulldogs out there, bearing their teeth at the foreign hordes. Let's celebrate all things British with a little help from two of our own musical legends. Pip pip and tally ho!
. The single cylinder lump revs quickly and smoothly and has near perfect throttle response thanks to it still using a single carb rather than fuel injection. It may not be that quick at the top end - I reckon you'd struggle to top 90mph - but would you really
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Fatal Attraction
By ddgurman on 16/11/2005 16:08:38
A tale about women, bikes and accidents.There are lessons to be learned..
.Actually that's not fair either. She may have been aware of how beautiful she was (she'd have had to have been pretty daft to have missed it!); but, as she crossed the street between two grey blocks, she couldn't have known that the sun as it blazed through her
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Kings of the Hill
By Warren Pole on 18/03/2008 22:58:28
Ducati's Hypermotard goes toe-to-toe with KTM and Buell through the vicious twists and turns of a Championship hill-climb event in Wiltshire
cc singles, and top the lot off with enough useful practicality to make daily riding a genuine possibility.All of which answers the hill-climb question. We took the Buell, KTM and Duke to a hill-climb race because a banzai charge up a one
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Road Test: XB12 v Ducati Hypermotard v KTM 950
By Warren Pole on 28/05/2008 23:02:31
Ducati's Hypermotard goes toe-to-toe with KTM and Buell through the vicious twists and turns of a Championship hill-climb event in Wiltshire.
beyond the end of the drive.But now for the first time there could be an answer as these three bikes grab the supermoto handling and styling ethos, sling in 1,000cc V-twins instead of 450cc singles, and top the lot off with enough useful practicality
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Daily Mirror man criticises colleague over Wootton Bassett poke
By Visordown News on 16/03/2010 11:57:47
Graham Brough sets the record straight for misguided Mirror journalist
. And something that isn't so public and... well.... so annoying?'Hughes continues:'It's amusing that the good people of WB can't possibly object to having their high street clogged up by hairy biker types because it's all in a good cause. Mainly because I don
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James Whitham Column - Jun 08
By James Whitham on 01/06/2008 13:55:32
Accepting the challenge to re-take his bike test James makes a confession: He’s never passed a solo bike test in his life! Why doesn’t this surprise us?
through. The law said you could ride any capacity machine on L-plates as long as it had a sidecar fitted! It also said that riders of “combination” machines would continue to only do the old, single part test. The silly bit was that if you passed the test
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KTM 690 Duke R vs. Yorkshire Dales
By James Whitham on 04/11/2010 15:26:20
Highway to Heaven: Six bikes, six roads, six twats, six stories. Ben Bardon was forced to take photos of someone called James Whitham. Perhaps, more worryingly, he also had to listen to him for the best part of a Thursday afternoon
. For track riding or going for a blast with your mates on wide, fast open roads any of the modern one-litre or 600cc sports bikes would be the go. For dodging about locally and everyday A-B riding through traffic something like a Street Triple would be good
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First 2012 Harleys revealed
By Visordown News on 30/06/2011 11:47:49
More to come later this year
the 6-Speed Cruise Drive transmission, 41.3 mm telescopic front forks, air-adjustable rear shocks and an Isolated Drive System for smooth power delivery. The Harley-Davidson Touring chassis has a single-spar, rigid backbone frame and two-piece swingarm
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First Ride: Husqvarna Nuda 900
By mark forsyth on 28/10/2011 10:22:27
BMW makes Husky road bike
These people, I think you'll find, are about to 'mistreat the street' as this is the launch slogan of the new Husqvarna Nuda 900. Make of that what you will. That is the R version on the right - more on that here. The heart of the matter
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