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First Ride: 2008 Yamaha YZF-R6
By James Whitham on 10/04/2008 23:14:59
James Whitham used to be a bit tasty on an R6 in World Supersport, so he’s uniquely placed to give the ‘08 bike a proper seeing-to...
through the technical stuff first. What was it the man with the Yamaha suit said just before I headed for the bar? “Careful adjustments to a successful design identity.” Summit like that. Many of the tweaks are quite subtle and some are even invisible. All
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First Ride: Suzuki GSX-R750 K6 review
By James Whitham on 17/09/2010 12:04:12
Suzuki's legendary headbanging 750 gets a few tweaks for 2006. Is it still the thinking man's superbike?
circuit to play on and really find out what the new Jixa will do. We did the on track stuff first, and within five laps I felt like I'd bonded with this bike. The engine is stronger than I thought it would be and the extra torque it has over a 600cc
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First Ride: KTM 690 Enduro & SMC
By James Whitham on 10/04/2008 11:23:23
These two bikes have a lot more in common than just the motor and are a much nearer to being able to live up to their name than any other street-moto or street-enduro machines currently on the market
and bodywork are the same as fitted to it’s off-road brother, although it feels lower to sit on because of the smaller diameter wheels.After I’d got round the first couple of roundabouts heading for some twisty mountain roads I felt at home on this bike. There
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First Ride: 2006 Suzuki GSX-R750 K6
By James Whitham on 03/04/2008 18:32:52
I know I'm not as young as I was...
.We were lucky enough to have bone dry roads and an equally gripy Brands Hatch indy circuit to play on and really find out what the new Jixa will do.We did the on track stuff first, and within five laps I felt like I'd bonded with this bike. The engine
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First Ride: 2006 CCM FT35s
By James Whitham on 22/09/2010 12:10:00
Back from the brink, CCM return to the fray with a Suzuki motor wrapped up in one hell of a limited-edition piece of leftfield lunacy.
from the flat track machines that race the half-mile and mile-long dirt ovals in the USA. Anyone who's seen the film On Any Sunday will know what flat-tracking's about. If you haven't, shame on you. Until then look at flat-track as big lads' speedway
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First Ride: 2010 MV Agusta F4 1000R launch test review
By James Whitham on 04/08/2010 09:55:20
Visordown’s Chief road tester is former World Supersport star and all-round top chap James Whitham. MV Agusta generously allows him to sample the new F4. Is he a happy chappy? Or utterly disgusted with Agusta? Find out
on the road. And a bike that gave you magic-carpet comfort on a bumpy road would handle like a Vespa with a flat tyre if you took it on track.Read on for James Whitham's verdict of the MV Agusta F4How MV made big changes to the F4 without losing its good looks
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KTM 690 Duke R vs. Yorkshire Dales
By James Whitham on 04/11/2010 15:26:20
Highway to Heaven: Six bikes, six roads, six twats, six stories. Ben Bardon was forced to take photos of someone called James Whitham. Perhaps, more worryingly, he also had to listen to him for the best part of a Thursday afternoon
. For track riding or going for a blast with your mates on wide, fast open roads any of the modern one-litre or 600cc sports bikes would be the go. For dodging about locally and everyday A-B riding through traffic something like a Street Triple would be good
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First Ride: Triumph Scrambler
By James Whitham on 30/03/2006 13:54:11
No barbed wire fences to jump, so Whitham sticks to the roads on Triumph's Scrambler and gets nostalgic
exhausts send you back to a time when nobody locked their doors and pop stars could play their own instruments.Out on the road (let's be brutally honest here - despite its name, you'd have to be brave to take this 205kg bike very far from the Tarmac
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Splitting heirs: Yamaha YZF-R6 2005 vs. 2006
By James Whitham, Tim Dickson on 27/01/2011 10:26:19
I know the R6 well not only 'cos I raced one for three seasons in World Supersport but also because we used 'em as marshals' bikes on our track days.
.Continue the Yamaha YZF-R6 2005 vs. 2006 test - 2/4EVOLUTION1999 The first R6 and a modern classic. The easiest way to spot the original R6 is to look for the carbs; later models got slightly less garish paint schemes. The front tyre is an all-new 120/60 size2003The
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