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1. Top 10 bikes that deserved better

   ... the list is subjective, since it’s not defined by bare figures but also by the judgement as to whether the bikes deserved to do ... list, feel free to add them in the comments below. All figures come from the DfT’s official registration statistics up to the end of ...

   Visordown News - 23/09/2019 - 00:52 - 2 comments

2. Dan Gurney’s 250bhp twin

   ... are complete and have turned up some scarcely believable figures during simulations, including power figures of 250bhp and more from the normally-aspirated, 1800cc design. The ...

   Visordown News - 10/05/2024 - 03:52 - 0 comments

3. Simon Daukes buys a naked motorcycle

   ... revival? The naked bike.According to official industry figures up until the end of September 2006 a total of 21,211 sportsbikes were sold, compared to 17,415 naked bikes. And these two figures are getting closer as the sportsbike market drops and the naked one ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - 10/05/2024 - 04:24 - 0 comments

4. 2018's top 10 best selling retro bikes

   ... the UK this year to see how they’re fairing. All the figures are based on registrations in the first three months of the year, from ... the numbers registered are a long way down on 2017’s figures. 7: Yamaha XSR700: 76 UK ...

   Visordown - 29/06/2023 - 13:46 - 0 comments

5. Top 10 longest-range bikes

   ... little engine. We'll ignore Honda's quoted fuel consumption figures for this bike and instead go straight to the consumption figures it gave us when we tested it earlier this year . It returned ...

   Visordown - 10/05/2024 - 03:58 - 1 comment

6. Top 10 most common MoT-exempt bikes

   ... new rules shift that date to 1978. And according to official figures that means some 107,000 bikes registered between 1960 and 1978  will ... a SORN (Statutory Off-Road Noctice). While the year-end figures will be skewed by the fact a lot of bikes, particularly classics, will ...

   Visordown Corre... - 10/05/2024 - 03:38 - 0 comments

7. Long-term test: Honda CBR500R review

   ... kg. It's the best new riders under 24 can get. Those figures won’t seem terribly exciting if you’ve just ridden to work on your ... necessarily know. The thing about these kerb weight figures is that, because manufacturers used to only quote dry, they make bikes ...

   Steve Farrell - 10/05/2024 - 04:04 - 0 comments

8. Ducati sales stutter in Europe as Honda, BMW, Kawasaki boom

   ... drop for Harley-Davidson. We delve into the sales figures to pull out the headlines… Ducati ... BMW, Kawasaki and KTM follow up with very positive figures too, growing their sales during H1 of 2019. The former added another ...

   Ollie Barstow - 12/09/2019 - 13:02 - 0 comments

9. Top 10 European motorcycle markets

   ... the maddest for bikes? Just to be clear, we’re using figures for full-on motorcycles here, not mopeds, quads or anything else. ... previous year. In fact, if we were to include mopeds in the figures, France would have seen a significant increase – some 107,322 ’peds ...

   Visordown - 09/09/2019 - 03:05 - 0 comments

10. First Ride: Buell XB9S

    ... more control over that stable, yet wicked set of geometry figures. As a reminder, they are 21-degrees of rake and 83mm of trail - the kind of figures normally only seen on Marco Melandri's Aprilia 250 GP bike. ...

    Ben Cope - 10/05/2024 - 04:16 - 0 comments

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