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Used Review: Honda CBR600F 1999-2002
By Bertie Simmonds on 05/04/2008 14:01:56
Year-on-year since its introduction in 1987, Honda's venerable CBR600F has been the undisputed king in the white-hot battle royal of the middleweight 600cc sports category. Bertie Simmonds checks out the last of the line
300,000 bikers can't be wrong. That's how many people who, the world over, have purchased Honda's evergreen favourite - the CBR600F - in the last 18 years.Back in 1987 Honda saw Kawasaki and Yamaha having a laugh in the middleweight sportsbike class with the GPZ600R and FZ600 and...
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The Secret Tracks of Europe
By Bertie Simmonds on 27/04/2010 10:55:14
If you’re getting bored of Brands and tired of tipping into Redgate, you need to get your circuit fix abroad. We trawled Europe to find you a selection of the best racetracks you’ve never heard of
In this modern world of instant adventure where even your accountant neighbour has been scuba-diving with Great White sharks, cutting hot laps around Donington just doesn’t do it anymore. Famous tracks like Jerez and Catalunya be damned - there’s a
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Road Test: I am not a number
By Bertie Simmonds on 19/04/2008 22:21:20
If only bikes were available on prescription to combat the misery of the Great British Winter
1800 GoldWing and the Harley-Davidson Electra-Glide Ultra Classic.As I slithered home up the wet and uninviting M25 and M1 on the BMW, I was a little alarmed. The front end of just felt so vague. Hit raised white lines, overbanding or the odd rut
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Used Review: Suzuki GSX1400
By Bertie Simmonds on 10/04/2008 19:10:37
It looked like a pit-bull, even if it was more of a lap-dog to ride. Blessed with good looks and mucho torque, Susuki's GSX1400 has proved to be a popular retro bruiser bike in used circles.
and curiously near the end, suspension mods! See www.gsx1400.org for more info on the bike. SECOND-HAND VALUESSuzuki GSX1400 K1-K4 (01-04)Colours: blue/white, silver, black, blue, black/redPrice new: £6,500 (2001)Price now: £2,500-£4,800Comments: Big, comfy
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Used Test: Suzuki GSX1400
By Bertie Simmonds on 13/09/2010 14:19:12
It looked like a pit-bull, even if it was more of a lap-dog to ride. Blessed with good looks and mucho torque, Suzuki's GSX1400 has proved to be a popular retro bruiser bike in used circles
Suzuki GSX1400 K1-K4 (01-04)Colours: blue/white, silver, black, blue, black/redPrice new: £6,500 (2001)Price now: £2,500-£4,800Comments: Big, comfy and lovely in blue - the GSX also had perhaps the best-looking and gruntiest motor in the retro class. Handling
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Icon: Two Fat Ladies - Proper TV cooks
By Bertie Simmonds on 22/06/2002 16:04:43
Two thundering game birds who cooked thundering game birds, and batted about on a trusty Thunderbird combination
"They said if I left, the school might settle down." She worked as housekeeper for a Ugandan diplomat but undiplomatically said to his face she hated his habit of "dragging back white trash" to his home. That was the end of that job.She never married
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Rocket Men - The Racing Haslam Family
By Bertie Simmonds on 26/06/2002 15:50:55
The story behind the racing Haslam family
versions of that one, but true or not, it illustrates the simple fact that a passion for racing and a thirst for what makes racing motorcycles work, battles for space in the Haslam veins alongside red and white corpuscles and haemoglobin. So much so
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Living with a 2003 Suzuki GSX-R1000
By Bertie Simmonds on 10/11/2003 13:54:39
It's big, it's old and a bit of a relic. But enough about Bertie, see how he got on with the monster GSX-R1000
commutes and a handful of Sunday blasts.So, in effect, I've done six-months worth of riding in just 14 days!After picking the handsome blue and white machine up from our benefactors at the wonderful Crescent Suzuki (01202) 810443), I had just enough time
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The Honda VFR Story
By Bertie Simmonds on 30/04/2006 14:05:42
Honda's VFR has stood for two decades as a machine which owners and press alike have claimed to be the world's most perfect motorcycle. Surprising, then, that the VFR story was almost over before it had begun
: the VFR750FG.At first, some were disappointed that this new 750 from Honda wasn't as racey as Suzuki's radical GSX-R750, or didn't have as many valves as Yamaha's FZ750, but beneath the sober white paintwork the first VFR was a real gem. Utilising gear
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