2009

Isle of Man launch hard-hitting TT safety campaign

Plans to make 2009 TT the safest yet include posters of staged accidents and images of the real thing.

New Goldwing next week? Maybe.

But probably not...

US motorcycle sales hammered in 2010

The outlook is bleak in the USA

Valentino Rossi girlfriends gallery

Picture gallery of Valentino Rossi's girlfriends

First Ride: 2009 Harley-Davidson Road King Classic

Harley’s touring range, the most important bikes in the company’s vast and baffling line-up, have been given a thorough going-over for 2009. Big-mile ability and charm? Believe

Honda CBR600RR C-ABS launch test review

Honda’s mostly-under-the-skin revised CBR600RR has one very significant addition for 2009 - an ABS braking system. But can ABS really sit comfortably on a supersport bike?

Whitham samples the top two WSB bikes from 2009

The two best superbikes on the planet: 2009 World Superbike champion Ben Spies’ Yamaha R1 and runner-up Nori Haga’s Ducati 1098F09. And the mighty James Whitham gagging to wring their necks at the spectacular Parkalgar circuit

2009 Kawasaki ZX-6R first ride review

It may only look like a small update, but there’s a lot more under the skin of the new ZX-6R. With a new look comes a more refined attitude

2009 Kawasaki ER-6n first ride review

The budget twin designed to look like a traditional Japanese theatre mask gets a useful update and manages to be more than the sum of its parts

2009 Yamaha R1 - Niall Mackenzie's big bang launch review

The Yamaha R1 promises to be a genuine breakthrough, making use of a crossplane crankshaft developed in MotoGP to deliver smooth, even power. Will this radical new technology put the R1 ahead of Honda’s awesome current-generation Fireblade?

Living with a 2009 Kawasaki ER-6n

Perfect for slicing through sleepy country towns and getting stern lectures from not-so-sleepy country coppers. This fiery twin has got what it takes to entertain

The Longest Test: Visordown Long-termers Review

Six very different bikes with one thing in common – an identical 2,500 miles to cover through France in less than five days. Visordown takes our long-term test fleet out of the comfort zone to find out more about the bikes we thought we knew so well…

2009 Most Important...Yamaha YZF-R1

Genuine MotoGP technology lies inside the latest manifestation of the wonderful R1. It’s not flawless but it’s verging on the fantastic

2009 Most Important...BMW K1300R

Not many bikes manage to change people’s perceptions of an entire factory. But BMW engineered a seismic shift in attitude with this big-inch brute, the machine that put the tonic into Teutonic. Believe

2009 Most Important...Aprilia RSV4 Factory

Few bikes have ever come as close to living up to the ‘Factory’ tag as this Noale nut-job. Expensive, hard to ride slowly, unruly on the road but totally in its element on a track – it’s just got to be the best bike of the year

2009 Most Important...Yamaha YZF-R125

The littlest, cutest Yam has reawakened youth to the idea of misspending it riding motorcycles, which has got to be a good thing. We should all know better, but just can’t help ourselves

2009 Yamaha R1 Street Tracker

Take a stock 2009 R1 and give it to a flat-track fanatic and this is the result

Living with a 2009 Yamaha YZF-R6

Niall Mackenzie spends some quality time with the Yamaha R6, here's his review

Living with a 2009 Triumph Bonneville

A posing bike for the poser, Barry Tavner tries to capture the 'cool' on the Triumph Bonneville

MotoGP: 2009 Laguna Seca Grid Girl Picture Gallery

Click here to see the best pictures of the girls at the 2009 MotoGP Laguna Seca USGP round. You don't have to be a member to vote for your favourites.

WSB: 2009 Donington Grid Girls Gallery

Check out our selection of the best grid babes from the Donington Park round of the World Superbike Championship

2009 GSX-R1000 review

Just when I thought I was getting close to reaching cerebral maturity, the 2009 GSX-R1000 showed me that I still had a long way to go.

MotoGP: 2009 Catalunya Grid Girls Gallery

Check out our selection of the best grid girls from the sixth round of the MotoGP Championship at Catalunya, Spain

WSB: 2009 Miller Motorsports Grid Girls Gallery

Check out our selection of the best grid girls from the Miller Motorsports round of the WSB Championship in the USA

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