Motorbike

MV Agusta also launched the £11,950 990R, aiming at café culture. The R features a 998cc engine with the same bore as the 1090RR, just a shorter stroke.

We loved the Victory Hammer S so much after the test we didn’t want to give it back. We still don’t!

One of the best big scooters on the market if getting there in time is more important than getting there in style

Roland Brown fires back his first thoughts on Kawasaki's new 1000cc naked

The Triumph Bonneville 2009 is put through its paces in the scenic surroundings of the South of France.

BMW’s best-selling bike for the past three years, Tim Cummings revels in his role as supersub as the GS does what it’s supposed to do...

The GTR’s been waiting for a trip like this. Over two weeks at large in France, Ben Miller’s Kawasaki proves little less than awesome

Our undisputed king of the Supersport class for 2009, Niall Mackenzie explains why he wouldn’t swap the YZF-R6 for anything else...

The dark horse of this year’s litre class, the GSX-R1000 just keeps on impressing Visordown’s Deputy Editor and keen club racer, Rob Hoyles.

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…

Rob Hoyles reports back from the launch of Aprilia's RSV4-R. How does it compare to the super-trick Factory version

James Whitham's review of the Harley XR1200

After passing my CBT, I chose Yamaha's YZF-R125 as my first foray into biking, but did it prove too tall and too sporty for town riding?

The term ‘all-rounder’ is usually associated with the phrase ‘lose the will to live’. But this machine is very different. That’s because it’s very good

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

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

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

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

If we bought motorbikes using our head alone, Buell would be out of business. Will the 1125CR help Buell onwards and upwards?

The mid ‘70s was a time of contradiction and mayhem: Giant 2-strokes despite the fuel crisis, legends based on notoriety, little or no consideration for health and safety and the emphasis based purely on thrills. Happy days...

Despite being brilliant to ride, to many riders bikes are little more than an efficient form of transport.