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First Ride: 2011 Kawasaki Z750R
By Ben Cope on 10/12/2010 17:37:13
Visordown heads to Spain to see if the new Kawasaki Z750R can live up to the hype and beat its way to the top of the naked middleweight class
that - when the going got fast - struggled to keep up. But that was one of its charms; you really felt you were riding it on the edge at speeds that weren’t really edgy at all.Now, 7 years on from the original Z750’s launch, the market has moved
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Road Test: Street Rod vs. MT-01
By Colin Goodwin & James May on 29/04/2008 21:05:40
Top Gear's James May and Autocar Magazine's Colin Goodwin team up with Yamaha and Harley-Davidson in a quest for the alternative to scary sports bikes.
James May is 'not the short one' on BBC2's Top Gear. Unlike Clarkson, who famously hates motorcycles (despite the fact he once bought his wife a Ducati), May is a serious bike fan who's had some fairly useful machinery clutter up his garage. He
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Road Test: CB600F Hornet
By Daryll Young on 24/04/2008 20:57:32
We put the new and improved Hornet 600 through its paces. But will it still offer up the vibey ride and shonky tank range of its top-selling predecessor?
Since its launch in 1998 the CB600F Hornet has been a massive success story for Honda. In Europe it topped the two-wheeler sales charts in 2001 and finishing runner-up to the SH150 in 2002 and 2003. During this time minor changes and updates have
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Classic Scrap - Class of 1990 - KR-1S V RGV250
By Simon Bowen on 19/04/2010 16:24:51
The Japanese locked horns in a techno crazed 250 shoot-out. Kawasaki upped the stakes with their new KR-1S in a bid to oust Suzuki’s glorious RGV from the 2-stroke top spot
Click to read: Kawasaki KR-1S owners reviewsClick to read: Suzuki RGV250 owners reviewsIt’s not a difficult year to remember, as I was busy screaming from pillar to post in a frenzied quarter-litre rampage, oblivious to the rights of fellow road users as I was practising the art ...
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New section on Visordown: Motorcycle Top 10s
By Ben Cope on 19/04/2010 16:56:18
We've launched a new section, packed with quality editorial. And some gratuitous pictures of barely slothed women, too.
of everything in motorcycling. Written by the industry's best writers. Some of it is as voted by you. All of it up for discussion.Let's start off with our current list of Top 10 articles: Top 10 Sexiest Motorcycles of All TimeTop 10 unsung yet iconic motorcyclesTop
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Europe's top five bikes for 2009
By Visordown News on 05/08/2009 07:36:18
Triumph Street Triple rated as a favourite for 2009 by bike-mad Frenchies
HERE ARE the top-five motorcycles for 2009, according to a recent poll taken by French mag Motorevue.As expected, top notch sportsbikes, like the new Aprilia RSV4 and Ducati 1198, feature in the line-up but it's good to see three nakeds also
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Used: Cold Killers top
By Ben Cope on 14/01/2013 14:24:00
Nearly as old as Ben, holding up a lot better
’ outside. I wear this top over a T-shirt and then my jacket over the top and that’s that. The fabric features hundreds of tiny raised squares that serve to trap air and keep you warm. Whatever the science behind it, it works. The top zips to halfway up my
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Honda top 2011 Q1 sales Chart
By Nathan Clark on 26/05/2011 12:11:09
Sales figures for 2011 Q1 reveal Honda, Yamaha and Triumph in the top three
THE motorcycle sales figures for the first quarter of 2011 have been released by the Motorcycle Industry Association.Honda heads up the chart selling 3913 units in the opening quarter, followed by Yamaha in second place with 2518 and Triumph ranked
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Mladin tops the £3 million mark
By Visordown News on 22/01/2008 11:25:23
Six-time AMA champ becomes one of Australia's top sporting earners
AMERICAN superbike racer Mat Mladin managed to top of his 2007 year with a certain style – by getting into Australia’s top 10 highest paid sports stars. The Aussie, who has taken the AMA big bike crown six times, is reported to have earned around
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Le Mans 24hr: Plater tops practice times
By Visordown News on 17/04/2009 09:09:43
BSB frontrunner blasts Honda France missile to top of timesheets ahead of this weekend's epic
race.The Honda France squad were fastest in the first free practice sessions reportedly with Yamaha GM94 second quickest and then Michelin Honda, National Motos Honda, SERT Suzuki and Kawasaki Bolliger making up the rest of the top spots.Last year
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