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Yamaha YZF-R7 OW02
Year: 1999
107 horsepower (80 kW), 139 hp (105 kW) when the other, unused bank of fuel injectors is activated, and over 162 hp (120 kW) in race trim.The R7 was built for racing 'out of the box', implied by the chassis, which was derived from information
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Moto Guzzi V11 Le Mans Rosso Corsa (2005)
Price: £8719
Year: 2005
Reader rating: 4/5 from 2 reviews
of this Italian passion machine. If peak horsepower and ridiculous top speeds are the measure of how good a bike is then Kawasaki should take their ZX14 out to a full two litres. Guzzi provides a satisfying ride - not one frustrated by the inability of roads
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Yamaha YBR125 (2005 - present)
Price: £2199
Year: 2005
Reader rating: 4/5 from 2 reviews
and pieces.It will never set the roads on fire, but with a genuine 90 mpg without trying you will struggle to find anything as cheap to run as a YBR125. I do wonder if a nother couple of horsepower would help and the rear drum brake is OK. Other tahn that I
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Ducati 916
Price: £11800
Year: 1993
Reader rating: 4.5/5 from 1 review
cylinder desmodromic V-twin measured 916cc and produced 114 crankshaft horsepower, with torque from tickover.Read more: http://www.visordown.com/reader-articles/ducati-916-perfect-form-perfect-function/425.html#ixzz0xcHckURO Vinnychoff: its a race bike
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CR&S Vun
Price: £9999
Year: 2007
with cracks in its surface. On most bikes getting good pics here would have been a nightmare.Not so on the CR&S Vun, which more than lived up to those clichés about single-cylinder bikes making up with agility what they lose in horsepower. With its wide bars
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Rieju RS3 125
Price: £3399
Year: 2011
a horsepower or two but, looking at this parentally, it makes the RS3 a much easier (and cheaper) bike to derestrict when the L-plates eventually get binned and 15bhp just isn't enough.In its restricted 15bhp form the Rieju will sit at an indicated
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Honda XL700V Transalp (2007 - present)
Price: £5400
Year: 2007
Reader rating: 4/5 from 3 reviews
on gravel, Strengths: competent all rounder, 59 horsepower (early commandos and Tridents had 58 bhp) so don't expect to keep up with the gixers, this is a differnt kind of biking. Sedate but reliable. Good brakes, good gearbox, reasonable protection from
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Honda CB1300 (2003 - present)
Price: £6649
Year: 2003
Reader rating: 4.5/5 from 3 reviews
horsepower out of engines these days. It’s too easy. The brief now is to make a bike rideable and for the delivery of the motor to match the style of the bike. And the style of this bike is totally self-evident. It’s a mammoth. It feels hugely powerful. Yet
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Moto Guzzi Griso 1100
Price: £7490
Year: 2006
Reader rating: 4/5 from 4 reviews
horsepower missile.Usable grunt where you want it (anything over 2000rpm)Great handling (though side stand will start to touch down when on the extreme right hand edge of the tyre) Ducati 916 soundalike sound track with the termignoni exhaust. Weaknesses: Top
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Kawasaki VN2000
Price: £9645
Year: 2004
uncontrollably and spit you off. Displacing 2053cc (125.3 cubic inches), the 2004 Vulcan 2000 has the largest capacity V-twin engine ever put into production by a major manufacturer. With 141lb.ft of torque at 3000 rpm and 116 horsepower at 5000 rpm, the Vulcan
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