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Road Test: Real World 600s
By Jon Urry on 03/06/2003 14:54:52
If pound notes are more important than lap times these 600s offer the best compromise of race replica handling with real world practicality. New and secondhand these still top the sales podium
together these five bikes together in one place for us to ride, and the problems we had getting them gives a very good indication of which are the big sellers, but are the big sellers also the best machines?Continue the real world 600s road test
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Unchanged Melodies
By Jon Urry on 15/01/2009 10:54:11
Once upon a time they built unassuming bikes that were so good from the word ‘go’ that they didn’t change once during their production run
test. Together Kawasaki’s ZZR600, Yamaha’s Thundercat, Ducati’s 900 Monster and Suzuki’s Bandit 1200 have pooled over 20 years of virtually unchanged glory. Which makes them fantastic secondhand buys. No matter what your budget is, one of these bikes
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Used Review: Honda CB600F Hornet
By Bertie Simmonds on 05/04/2008 21:49:32
Born in 1998's naked middleweight boom, the Honda Hornet has evolved into a more capable, practical machine than the tiny-tanked original model.
. Meanwhile, the Fazer had awesome anchors (from the R1), a torquey motor from the Thundercat and a fair degree more practicality with a half fairing. The Hornet got better brakes and a half fairing in '00.Honda has done its best over the years to address
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Used Review: Yamaha Fazer 600
By Bertie Simmonds on 05/04/2008 16:03:24
Cheaper than chips and more versatile than a Swiss Army knife, the Yamaha Fazer is one of the few bikes that really can be (nearly) all things to all men - and all for under two grand
at it as a budget VFR.It was more flexible and versatile than the Hornet and Bandit it was up against, and more of a man's bike than the SV650. Despite having less power than the Hornet, the midrange torque of the more flexible Thundercat motor made it feel
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Used Review: Yamaha YZF-R6
By Bertie Simmonds on 05/04/2008 16:08:21
Yamaha's feisty little R6 has deservedly gained a cult status amongst its fans, as a rev-happy, sharp-edged alternative to Honda's more easy-going CBR600.
THE YZF-R6 was Yamaha's hard-edged answer to the dominance of Honda's CBR600.It re-visited what Yamaha 600s had been doing best up until the launch of the Thundercat in 1996. The R6 was edgy, raw, uncompromising, revvy and fast, where the lap
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Buyer Guide: Yamaha Fazer 600
By Visordown on 13/10/2010 15:15:35
The ultimate buying guide to the Fazer 600 written by the people who actually own the bike...
for a sensible price. Yamaha’s FSZ600 Fazer took the biking world by storm when it appeared in 1998. It was a well known formula – take an established engine (from the YZF600 Thundercat) and put it in a basic upright chassis. But this time the result
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Road Test: Yamaha FZS600 V FZS1000
By Chris Moss on 19/04/2008 21:52:25
Looking at buying either a 600 or 1000 Fazer but can't make your mind up? Do the running and retail costs of the 1000 put it in a different league to its little budget brother? All that and more inside. Lovely.
so much riding appeal once you get it going, the 1980s bodywork becomes less of an issue.Continue the Fazer road test
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Road Test: VFR800 VTEC vs. ZZ-R1200 vs. FAZER 600
By Bertie Simmonds, Gus Scott, Simon Bowen, Daryll Young on 21/04/2008 21:49:21
Three different bikes, three different prices and three different ways to sports, tour and commute. These bikes are living proof that in the world of motorcycling, you can indeed have your cake, take it to the South of France and eat it...
'd expect to see on a bigger machine - two trips, fuel gauge, clock, underseat storage, a proper pillion perch, unburstable (ex-Thundercat) motor with near perfect carburation and decent build quality.So good was the original back in '98 that the only
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First Ride: 2004 Yamaha FZ6 Fazer
By Jon Urry on 05/11/2003 11:23:19
Having resisted the urge to tear down the hotel curtains and make them into a set of lederhosen, Jon Urry braves rain and ice-rink-like Austrian roads to put Yamaha's new emissions-friendly Fazer to the test
is brought forward and as the Fazer is aimed at being an all-road, all-weather bike a wet test isn't such a bad thing. Well, that was what I kept telling myself as the cold mountain rain was soaking through my jeans to my pants.But at least I wasn't alone
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Road Test: 2007 Z750 v FZ6 v GSR v Hornet
By Jon Urry on 28/05/2008 22:13:52
Welcome to a world of high tea, cucumber sandwiches, and screaming petrol engines as the naked middleweights tear into...
emissions laws forced Yamaha to stop using the old Thundercat engine and to re-tune the R6 motor instead for the new underseat piped Fazers. Which, in my opinion, is where most of the FZ6's problem come from.Continue the 750cc naked test - 2/2
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