2003

The ultimate buyer’s guide for Honda's 929cc and 954cc RRY, RR1, RR2 and RR3 Fireblades. The ultimate Honda CBR900RR Fireblade review.

The ultimate buying and owning guide by the people who know these bikes best: those who’ve bought them, run them, broken them, fixed them, spent money on them and more

Comfy, ultra-reliable, cheap and 170mph fast. All the inside information on the cruelly underrated and too often overlooked Kawasaki ZX-9R from the people who own them

With a price tag of £5549 Suzuki's new Bandit 1250 comes with a huge motor and tons of all-round potential. But is it better than a lightly-used big bore bargain?

Another year, another choice selection of 1,000cc sportsbikes. But this year is a particularly good vintage as Yamaha, Kawasaki and Honda try to close the gap on Suzuki's all conquering GSX-R1000 of 2001.

What on earth could Aprilia do to improve their already-ace Mille-R? Not an enormous amount as I discovered at the launch of the 2003 bike in Italy.

There's no bigger name when it comes to big sportsbikes than the FireBlade, and that was all the excuse we needed to line up every model since 1992 for a right good knees up at the wooded and wicked Oulton Park

The big boss takes the CBR954RR FireBlade for a spin

The sorry tale of taking three express tourers to the land of eternal rain and mist in an attempt to find a ray of sunshine

...a long term test of the FJR1300 from Giles

Uncertainty soon turns to attraction as the big Zed wins over Bert

Our Niall gets down and dirty with the KTM 450 EXC

The WCM team built a Grand Prix bike around the bones of a Yamaha R1 in less than 14 weeks. Niall Mackenzie tests the impressive Harris WCM GP bike

British MotoGP rookie Chris Burns rides a Grand Prix bike built around the bones of a Yamaha R1 in less than 14 weeks by a British team. Niall Mackenzie tests the impressive Harris WCM GP bike.

When you absolutely, positively have to go as fast as possible from one point to another there is only one class to turn to. But when the siren goes off is the new GSX-R still the fastest way to get to a nuclear bunker?