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2010 Kawasaki Versys launch test review
By Mark Forsyth on 02/08/2010 10:50:20
Dependable do-it-all gets a facelift and a suspension twaeak. Mark Forsyth rode the new version to bring you chapter and verse
who want a do-it-all runabout. The Versys snared a lot of sports bikes types fed up with dodging speeding convictions and even trail bike riders who, when they were honest with themselves, never actually used their bikes off-road at all. Practical
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Ducati 1098 Bayliss Mallory Park track test
By Mark Forsyth on 24/06/2010 14:45:43
Angry, stiff, unforgiving and verging on the unmanageable in inexperienced hands. BUT with a super-strong engine, amazing brakes and a soundtrack to savour. Hard work
EngineNuts is the first adjective that springs to mind when I recall what the Ducati 1098 Bayliss engine is like. It produces a barely controllable explosion of power. Everywhere. Subtlety is not its ace card.And while it may not trump the BMW in terms of outright power it trounc...
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2010 Honda VFR1200F world launch test
By Mark Forsyth on 04/06/2010 12:34:57
One of motorcycling’s worst kept secrets - Honda’s top-secret VFR1200F. Visordown were among the chosen few to ride it at the Sugo circuit in Japan
of those embarrassing falling-in-over-in-petrol-forecourt incidents. And because the heavily sculpted tank swoops around your knees, when you’re on the bike it really does feel like you’re in it – part of it. Our track and road test ride was dry but you
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2011 Triumph 1050 Sprint GT road test review
By Mark Forsyth on 11/08/2010 10:19:29
More powerful (but a bit too revvy), longer wheelbase with single-sided swingarm, very stable, geared more for touring than its predecessor and overall a very decent tour bus
? In this market the emphasis can lie clearly at either end of the sports tourer spectrum. We tested both these extremes last issue and, for us, the niftier handling VFR won it for us.Triumph’s new Sprint GT is a tourer-fied version of the existing Sprint
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2010 BMW S1000RR Mallory Park track test
By Mark Forsyth on 24/06/2010 15:50:52
Technically superior to the opposition, kind and considerate to all grades of rider and ridiculously fast. A bike so well-behaved it makes ultra-scary speeds things of joy
the strongest of the lot, especially at the top. As you fire out onto the straight and the revs build, it just keeps pulling and pulling. I’m fairly sure it had the best top speed of the bikes on test, but because the chassis is so settled and stable
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2010 MV Agusta F4 1000 Mallory Park track test
By Mark Forsyth on 24/06/2010 12:07:49
Categorically better than its predecessor and properly in contention in the exalted company of the other European exotics. It filled Whit with confidence – and that is quite some recommendation
into form as it screams towards peak torque at 10,000rpm and peak power at 11,000. The Magneti Marelli fuel injection system is nicely mapped. On a wet, greasy pot-hole infested public road this is as noticeable as at the apex of Gerards, just when you
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2010 Aprilia RSV4 Factory Mallory Park track test
By Mark Forsyth on 24/06/2010 15:17:54
Small, feisty and peaky, but raw, basic and flawed in some respects. Aside from all that, a beautiful creation and a most lusted after machine. And very, very fast too
turns. To get round this I ended up making more of an effort to blip the throttle on the down shifts and feather the clutch a bit so the rear wheel could keep up with the road, just like we had to do in the good old days!“An experienced racer who can
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Rizla GSX-R1000: Visordown test
By Mark Forsyth on 25/01/2007 12:47:14
Ex-PB Editor Mark Forsyth rides the Rizla BSB bike
, many club races and club titles (1802). I am, however, very race rusty having spent the past four years testing stuff with four wheels. Thing is, I got the call up to ride a Rizla GSX-R1000 Superbike last week and, today, I gone done it - a genuine
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Four. Three. Two. One. Cylinders test
By Mark Forsyth on 13/08/2010 14:29:45
For many riders pure sports bikes are becoming less and less relevant. But what are the options in the middleweight class? That depends how you like to ride and how many cylinders you want…
-blade-like 675 Daytona is totally focused around the front tyre, insanely fast corner entry and mid-turn velocity, the Street Triple is far more road and real world oriented. Just bouncing up and down on the seat with both your hands on the back of the tank
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2010 MV Agusta F4 1000 UK test and review
By Mark Forsyth on 26/02/2010 09:55:11
MF rides the new MV Agusta F4 in ‘proper’ British weather
Click to read: 2010 MV Agusta F4 1000 owners reviews, 2010 MV Agusta F4 1000 specs and to see the 2010 MV Agusta F4 1000 image gallery.Rockingham’s National circuit is not the grippiest out there, even on a good day. In February, with 4 degrees of ambient temperature, thick mist...
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