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Simon Daukes buys a naked motorcycle
By Jon Urry on 01/01/2007 17:20:21
Here at Visordown HQ we have no idea who Simon Daukes is. But we're guessing he's some sort of marketing cheese from the Haymarket days. Here he is, buying a motorcycle. Allegedly
and the potential penalties - ban, prison, losing the wife off the back at 140mph - are starting to out weigh the benefits. Then there is the problem with theft, insurance costs and all the various evils that go with owning a sportsbike.But not all riders want
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How my stolen 'Blade ended up on the WSB grid
By Jon Urry on 24/06/2010 10:28:00
In 2004 I had a Honda Fireblade, and very nice it was too. Then some lowlife scum decided to relieve me of it. Now, years later, the police have recovered the bike. What happened in between?
location that made the theft easy. Gangs use spotters or lower-order gang members to find bikes. Kids will break a steering lock by hand then wheel the bike about half a mile away from where it was parked and leave it to see if the police turn up. When
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Living with a 2007 Triumph Tiger 1050
By Jon Urry on 16/05/2007 13:45:58
Urry swaps the speed of sports bike for the sedate Tiger 1050 to experience the sense of adventure
.Reality hit home: my commute is through London traffic; I need to take a pillion every now and then; despite my best intentions I only managed one track day last year on my GSX-R600. All that, and the constant threat of theft, has all combined to put a very
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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.
the benefits. Then there is the problem with theft, insurance costs and all the various evils that go with owning a sportsbike.But not all riders want to abandon the benefits that come with a sportsbike, namely a powerful engine, quality suspension and decent
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Split the Difference
By James Whitham , Rob Hoyles , Jon Urry on 07/09/2009 16:28:52
Despite being brilliant to ride, to many riders bikes are little more than an efficient form of transport.
will come from abuse, neglect or theft.When TWO explained that I had £5,000 to spend at DK I got excited. Then they told me that I needed to buy not one, but two bikes before ruining the whole thing by telling me that the five grand was hypothetical
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Road Test: SXV5.5 v. ZZR1400 v. GSX-R750 v. Rocket
By Niall Mackenzie, Tim Dickson, John Hogan, Jon Urry on 20/05/2008 10:30:19
Motorcycling with the mostest and living with extremes: Kawasaki ZZR1400, Triumph Rocket III, Suzuki GSX-R750 and an Aprilia SXV5.5. Can too much ever be enough?
, but the GSX-R750 is one of the purest forms of motorcycling ever created.Aprilia SXV5.5Special excess: race bike on the road Lived with: Jon UrryI've been riding the Aprilia for less than 20 yards, in fact I haven't even made it out of the office car park
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