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Ducati Hypermotard 1100 EVO SP first ride review

The SP version costs £10300 and that’s before you throw the really good stuff at it. It’s expensive, but more is more

First ride: 2010 Kawasaki Z1000 review

Kawasaki’s naked beast is back, not with a whimper, but with a big styling bang and an engine to back up the new look.

2010 Aprilia RSV4R first ride

The nearest most of us were ever likely to get to living the MotoGP dream (the RSV4 Factory) cost fifteen grand last month. Now there’s a more affordable alternative

2010 Ducati Hypermotard 796 first ride road test

At a fiver under seven grand Roland Brown reckons Ducati’s revamped baby Hypermotard is worth a sniff

First impressions: 2011 Triumph Sprint GT

Mark Forsyth reports back with the low-down on Triumph's new tourer

2008 Yamaha YZF-R125 first ride review

After an ASBO and a concealed weapon could Yamaha’s new learner-legal 125 be the new must-have teenage accessory?

2008 GSX-R600 first ride review

The look is similar, but Niall discovers that the 2008 GSX-R600's beauty is more than just skin deep.

BMW HP2 Sport first ride review

Is BMW’s HP2 Sport the ultimate Boxer, or just an over-priced showman? We spent a day on the road with the £15,000 BMW that floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee

Benelli Tre-K 899 first ride review

From the brink of oblivion (again), Benelli slip their smaller triple into the tall and funky Tre-K chassis. The result is pretty damn fine, but can it save their ass?

Yamaha XT660Z Tenere first ride review

Sick of your job? Boss giving you grief? Wife just won’t shut up? Why not sod it all and explore the world on a Tenere. Or just use it to commute

2008 Kawasaki Ninja 250R first ride review

Kawasaki’s baby Ninja has already sold out in the UK and offers serious style for first-timers and commuters who want to look the part. We sent a total beginner to the world launch in Barcelona

2009 BMW G450X first ride review

They’ve flirted with it for years, but now BMW finally get stuck into the business of serious off-roading with their new enduro tool

Honda DN-01 first ride review

Is this what Judge Dredd will ride when he’s given up police work and gone utterly soft in his old age?

2010 Yamaha Fazer8 and FZ8 first ride review

Yamaha aim to reinvent its best selling Fazer brand with a bigger capacity engine and whole new ethos. Will it help banish memories of the disappointing FZ6 range?

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 Triumph Thunderbird first ride review

One of motorcycling’s few truly great names is back. Again. And this time it’s attached to a cruiser aimed squarely at Harley-Davidson. Slickly engineered it may be, but she’s no wild one

Derbi GPR 125 first ride review

Two strokes are dead, live with it. We try on the new 125 four-banger from bijou biking kings Derbi

2009 BMW F800R first ride review

BMW continue their rapid expansion with the F800R. With a specification to rival Triumph’s mighty Street Triple, the twin-cylinder BM looks set to lead from the front

2009 Aprilia RSV4 Factory first ride review

Three years and nearly £20 million in the making, Aprilia’s all-new V4 superbike is a Herculean effort for a firm that five years ago was in dire financial straits. It’s also quite brilliant...

2009 KTM 990SMT first ride review

It’s taken Austrian dirt bike peddlers KTM a decade, but the orange House of Madness has finally produced a sensible motorbike. Except it isn’t, not really…

2009 BMW K1300 GT first ride review

The new 1300GT is BMW doing what they do best; a fast, comfortable mile-muncher

Ducati Streetfighter first ride review

If you thought the S4RS was barking, then think again. Ducati’s latest machine goes right back to streetfighting basics…

2009 Kawasaki ZX-6R first ride

Straight from Japan, Jon Urry sends us back the low down on the new 2009 ZX-6R

First Ride: 2009 Kawasaki ER-6n

Tim Cummings fires back his first report on Kawasaki's funky new ER6

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