Motorcycle Road Tests

Can an ageing, bum basic £5299 all rounder really offer the best of all worlds against a raft of higher priced, specialist competition? Read on to see where the smart money lies

Oversized 600s or underpowered1000s? With choices like these now is the time to think outside the box and dip into the middle ground.

1000cc sports bikes go ballistic to Majorca. Does the water taste like what it oughta?

Jon Bentman discusses the relative merits of owning a free Honda CBR600RR to review

John Cantlie reviews the RM-Z250 and reckons he has a pathetically mis-aligned mindset. We'd agree.

Why build one bike when you can have two at twice the price? Yamaha's new FZ1 naked and half-faired FZ1 Fazer emerge into the cold light of day

New dogs, old tricks. Does a factory retro sit well in the modern garage?

Who are everywhere right now. Nope, these Arctic Monkeys are our brave idiots who rode three unsuitable motorcycles to Switzerland. To do the Cresta Run. Eh?

John Hogan spends 12 months 'enhancing' his cool status with the Victory 8 Ball

Five middleweights and a bunch of lightweights head off for the perfect pint of real ale in the UK's best pub.

Would ewe believe it? You can get a 1000cc twin for less than seven grand. Should we flock to buy them or are we baa-king up the wrong tree? We go to Wales to find out.

It's every officer's duty to escape. So our four battle-weary soldiers slipped the confines of Blighty for the freedom of Germany's autobahns to stretch the legs of four very fast bikes.

It's supermoto-a-go-go as Team Two heads to France on a madcap mission to raise the Pyrenees to the ground. Allez!

Woke up. Fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my head. Found my way downstairs and drank a cup and looking up, I noticed I was late...

Back once more into the fray, Bimota splash their cash on the launch of the DB5. Are you ready with yours?

In which three big V-twins hurtle across Europe in search of sun, speed, a track day at Imola and a big day out at Italy's largest rock festival. Groovy!

Top Gear's James May and Autocar Magazine's Colin Goodwin team up with Yamaha and Harley-Davidson in a quest for the alternative to scary sports bikes.

Eight bikes, each a winner in its class, slug it out in the ultimate test. One will be crowned king, but which one?

Poking death with a stick then running away scared, our four intrepid testers take on the Nurburgring armed with four sports tourers.

Whitham takes us by the hand and leads us through the streets of Huddersfield. Four battered middleweights, a bag of chips and a Fanta, please.

In search of naked satisfaction our lads strip down, strip off and head to the seediest street in Europe, Hamburg's Reeperbahn.

There's a stretch of autoroute south of Clermont Ferrand that is the perfect tonic to the preceding several hundred miles of motorway monotony - if riding four of the world's finest litre bikes can ever be considered monotonous.

When you need to cross Europe in temperatures low enough to make a brass monkey wince, and still need to look chipper at the other end, only a serious tourer will do. We take three of the bestto Prague for the coldest test of the year.

Niall, James, Daryll and Jon venture north to celebrate Burns' night, eat Haggis and drink whisky. "They fought like Scotsmen. And won their freedom"