Motorcycle Road Tests

John Cantlie's long term impressions of the BMW R1200GS Adventure

A KTM 990, Honda Transalp and BMW HP2 get stuck into the muddy action at the WRC Wales Rally as we go searching for freestyle legend Travis Pastrana

Honda’s NR750 and Ducati’s Desmosedici are two of the most stunning bikes ever built. Each are worth £40,000 and both were developed from pure GP technology. There may be an incredible 16 years between them, but exclusivity this rare is timeless

If you want a bike to have fun on, to commute on, to explore and maybe even have an adventure on, then you really need one of these.

Ben Miller sends some time with the GTR1400 and finds ten reasons to love and hate it

Niall Mackenzie puts Suzuki's 2008 GSX-R750 through a year of abuse. How will it hold up?

Large, simple and underdeveloped. But enough about our intern, Ian Stewart, Whit’s XR1200 proves that it’s as much fun as its owner

Last year Aprilia's Tuono and Triumph's Speed Triple topped the street bike sales charts in the UK. What makes these bikes catch rider's imaginations

Barry Tavner's track record with bikes is dismal. Did this KTM ever make it through the year without being written off or stolen? Find out..

James Whitham's review of the Ducati Monster 696. What's it like to live with?

Jon Urry is a lovely chap and he's quite tidy on a motorcycle y'know? He reviews this Street Triple for a year for your delectation

Naughty Johnny Cantlie pinches a Pan Euro from Honda for a quick review

When you absolutely, positively, have to go completely stark raving mad this weekend there is only one path to take

The pool of great-looking alternative sports machines continues to grow, welcome then, to the Shiver and Street Triple

What would get you out of bed an hour early in winter just to play on deserted roads? try the new KTM 990SM or Ducati’s Hypermotard. It certainly worked for us...

The KTM690 Duke and Kawasaki’s ER-6n have plummeted out of the ugly tree, clattering every branch along the way. is that all?

Mr Tavner styles it on the KTM 950SM, designer stubble optional

Jon Bentman reviews this fine Kawasaki motorcycle for your pleasure. Or so he told us.

Andy loved his R6 and rolled around on it like a cut-price Rossi. Here's his review

Whitham is joined by British greats to assess the supersport machines

The latest batch of thousand cc superbikes are so fast, efficient and similar to each other that it’s now almost impossible to tell them apart. Niall and James put forward the argument that in 2008, it really doesn’t matter which model you ride anymore...

Seven 1,000cc streetbikes with no fairings, low top speeds and stacks of attitude. With your head stuck out in the breeze 100mph really feels like 100mph - welcome back to proper biking

Ducati's Hypermotard goes toe-to-toe with KTM and Buell through the vicious twists and turns of a Championship hill-climb event in Wiltshire.

Welcome to a world of high tea, cucumber sandwiches, and screaming petrol engines as the naked middleweights tear into...