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Bimota Tesi 3D tested around Brands Hatch
By Mark Forsyth on 11/08/2010 12:15:43
If you’ve never ridden a Tesi and never wanted to, now is the time to re-adjust your head and embrace weirdness
that doesn’t include any delivery, VAT or on the road charges. But, I have to say, it is a fantastic thing to behold (and ride) – the kind of bike you could just stare at for hours. Bimota has a new importer in the UK. They’ve appointed a raft of top
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First Ride: 2008 Moto Guzzi Stelvio
By Colin Goodwin on 21/10/2008 16:16:19
Despite sounding like a Greek travel rep Guzzi could be tapping a gold mine with its new adventure bike
In 2006 the BMW R1200GS (including the Adventure) was the best selling bike in the UK. It didn’t repeat the feat last year, but still sold 1,800 units putting it safely into the Top Ten. Triumph’s best-selling model is the Tiger 1050; which goes
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First Ride: 2002 Honda CBR600F
By Visordown on 12/07/2002 09:52:54
Since the dawn of time - well, since the dawn of modern sports 600s - the CBR600 has sat there on or near the top of the pile, like a very old and wise stegosaurus that's beaten off the velociraptors and sits there, gently chewing the cud
to race tuning without actually being tuned very much. Of the two, it's the F-model that sells. The Sport version (£300 more) doesn't really register on the sales richter scale. Read into that what you will.As such, every time you ride a CBR600 you come
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First Ride: Honda Goldwing
By Tony Middlehurst & Krys Freeman on 19/10/2010 10:27:23
Former Superbike magazine editor Tony Middlehurst takes his better half on a journey across the Lakes
Ville with two wheels missing, the Wing is a Peterbilt. You could argue that, at 416kg, it’s too big for the UK: fully loaded with luggage and humans, you’re grappling with over half a ton. Reverse gear is not a gimmick, it’s a bloody necessity! Wing
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First Ride: 2008 Suzuki GSX650F
By Jon Bentman on 17/02/2008 15:39:35
Just a Bandit with a full fairing? Jon Bentman flies to France and discovers the new GSX650F is a bike that’s much greater than the sum of its parts
on the tacho, in fifth, it felt sorely fast and a quick glance at the speedo showed 196. Only this was kilometres per hour, not miles, so in truth an imperial 120 or thereabouts. An illegal velocity in the UK of course (oh, and in France too I hear
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First Ride: Husqvarna Nuda 900
By mark forsyth on 28/10/2011 10:22:27
BMW makes Husky road bike
degree of fore and aft weight pitch but use it to the tyre's advantage and it's a very satisfying bike to ride hard, up and down twisty roads. I found the on-off, small throttle opening fuelling quite savage - enough for me to feather the clutch a bit
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First Ride: Honda NC700X review
By Mark Forsyth on 05/12/2011 11:33:20
Progressive Jazz
at first but once you’ve mastered the art of kicking gears at it frequently and super-early it’s not an unpleasant way to travel. Not everyone, however, mastered this after a day’s riding and the sound of 6,400rpm rev limiter was often heard.It’s a tricky
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First Ride: Harley-Davidson Softail Slim
By mark forsyth on 09/02/2012 10:13:48
Slim Boy Fat
– the Sportster 72 and the Slim around some of the best roads (ever?) in the mountains above Malaga and, you know what? It was one of the most pleasant days of riding I’ve had for some time.The Slim was my favourite. It uses Harley's big pre-unit 103 cubic inch (a
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First Ride: 2013 Honda CB500F review
By Sachin Rao on 19/02/2013 09:14:46
We get a feel of Honda's most significant bike of the year
for global sales, targeting everyone from A2 licence holders in Europe to people moving up from utilitarian 125s in developing Asian markets.Honda has released the F and the R first, with bikes expected in UK dealerships in March, and the X to follow two
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First Ride: 2007 Suzuki GSX-R1300 Hayabusa
By Jon Urry on 29/03/2008 10:23:35
With a tyre-shredding 194bhp on tap and a fully revised chassis the original Hypersports bike is refusing to grow old gracefully. Hold on tight, because the 'Busa is back and is meaner than ever...
but the new model manages to improve in all aspects. The engine is stunning, handling very good and annoying quirks such as the low screen ironed out. The only question mark for me hangs over the brakes, but I'm fairly confident that for road riding
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