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First Ride: 2007 Kawasaki GTR1400
By John Cantlie on 28/03/2008 11:13:10
Kawasaki enter the super-tourer class with their blistering GTR1400. Well-appointed and refined, this top-end tourer also comes with a strong helping of brutish Kawasaki performance
underway the GTR is completely manageable. For about 70% of the riding time during the launch the roads were deluged with water and for really fast riding on some of the awful German routes we crossed into, you were aware of the weight as the front and rear
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Ring Cycles
By Colin Goodwin on 01/07/2005 14:09:10
Poking death with a stick then running away scared, our four intrepid testers take on the Nurburgring armed with four sports tourers, BMW R1200 ST, Ducati ST3, Honda VFR800 and Triumph Sprint ST
in places and the traffic around the city a bit snotted up, but we zapped that in no time. We dropped down through Liege, blasted past the Spa GP circuit and turned left into the Eifel mountains and onto the superb riding roads that lead to Nurburg village
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Big V-twins
By Warren Pole on 26/03/2008 15:55:50
Aprilia Mille Factory, Ducati 999 and Honda SP-2 hurtle across Europe in search of sun, speed, a track day at Imola and a big day out at Italy's largest rock festival. Groovy!
.Edwards and his SP-2 may have taken Ducati and Aprilia to the cleaners at Imola on that roasting WSB afternoon back in 2002 but can the roadbike repeat the feat in this very different test? Early indications suggested it could. On the road it was the easiest
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Colditz
By Jon Urry on 01/11/2005 16:41:47
It's every officer's duty to escape. So our four battle-weary soldiers slipped the confines of Blighty for the freedom of Germany's autobahns to stretch the legs of four very fast bikes
of Schloss Colditz. Located in, unsurprisingly, Colditz village, our route to the castle from Chemnitx was a lovely twisty road through rural Germany that went on for about 30 miles. Ample opportunity to test the handling of the bikes, but not before we very
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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!
other bike on the road. No, on the Triumph you sit back and enjoy the ride.And it's not a bad ride at all. Yes, the engine is a mite disappointing, but only if you've ridden a modern bike or you want to go fast; for the back-road amble it has more than
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Living with a 2008 Suzuki GSX-R750
By Niall Mackenzie on 16/01/2009 12:55:14
Niall Mackenzie reviews the 2008 Suzuki GSX-R750 throughout a year of abuse
August 2008A few years ago the biking world was shocked to hear that James Whitham had spent his own hard earned cash on a brand new road bike; a GSX-R750. As you get no greater seal of approval, since that day I’ve been really keen to see what all
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Not so Super Motos
By Jon Urry on 01/10/2005 16:30:01
It's supermoto-a-go-go as Team Two heads to France on a madcap mission to raise the Pyrenees to the ground. Allez!
, which it is - the LC4 E it's evolved from (that's 'E' for 'Enduro' in case you were confused) is virtually identical but comes with off-road wheels and different suspension. Moving along we get Suzuki's DR-Z400SM, which again is a converted enduro bike
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First Ride: Ducati 848
By Jon Urry on 10/04/2008 22:12:19
It’s just like the 1098 but smaller, right? Er no, actually it isn’t. Ducati has taken a completely new change of tack with its 848.
such as ‘best balance between road and track’ and ‘entry level superbike.’ Hmm, this didn’t sound like what I was expecting. I wanted to hear lightweight, rev-hungry, supersport, phrases that would hint at a bike you could really throw around (or up) a track. A
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Living with a 2008 KTM 990SM
By Barry Tavner on 16/12/2008 11:13:13
Barry Tavner's track record with bikes is dismal. Did this KTM ever make it through the year without being written off or stolen? Find out..
June 2008When Urry threw me the keys to the 990SM following a test in the April issue I was secretly hoping that if we kept it long enough that the chaps at KTM UK would eventually just say ‘hell yeh, it’s all yours.’ The weeks passed and we were
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First ride: Suzuki GSR750 ABS review
By Ben Cope on 05/07/2012 12:37:14
GSR750 versus life. Put through its paces on the commute, endless A-roads and twisty country lanes - how does Suzuki's middleweight stack up on UK roads?
and take the edge of rain-soaked city roads.Our test model, in Black, looks sharp on its own, but when parked up with other bikes it blends in and disappears under the radar, hopefully meaning it'll be less likely to be pinched.vs. Long BlastsThe A303 isn
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