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The WSBK paddock are now heading to the UK for the seventh round

Hmm... surely the CBR, in this, its sporty FS guise at least, should be more exciting? This, after all, is the version tweaked for more excitement. Damn it all, my rose-tinted memory is telling me that the standard F with plusher seat, centre-stand, slightly less poke and a few different engine internals felt better than this a few years ago.

Honda's focused World Superbike contender

Taken with tongue firmly in cheek, the Shadow could be a fun way into the whole cruiser thang

De-tuned Blackbird engine in fine-handling muscle chassis. Weird looks

We put the new and improved Hornet 600 through its paces. But will it still offer up the vibey ride and shonky tank range of its top-selling predecessor?

Forget the pipe-and-slippers image, Honda's VFR has taken the term 'all-rounder' to a new level. It does absolutely everything, and does it well.

Much more flexible than the Italian 125s in restricted form and cheaper, too

Our RC45 had been re-painted in the Castrol Honda colours of a TT marshal’s bike, which was a shame. The ‘Groundwork Southeast’ logo under the seat looked especially uninviting. The ’45 was never a pretty bike but has always had a squat, purposeful stance to it.

The Honda ST1100 Pan European was one of those bikes that quietly got on with doing the job it was designed to do. And that was to provide something just short of a full-dress touring bike in a slightly more manageable (and cheaper) form, at the behest of the European, not US, market.

While it's never going to set the world alight, the CG rarely causes any dramas either

De-tuned CBR1000F motor still delivers enough power for this naked heavyweight

Want it all? You're not alone. The CBR600F is Britain's best-selling motorbike of all time and not without good reason: it really is all things to all men (and women). Plenty of people overlook it in favour of its racy stable-mate, the newer 'double-R' CBR600RR.

I stumbled across a mint 1992 twin headlight FireBlade a few months ago, nestling inconspicuously among the massed ranks of used bikes at a local dealership, and it stopped me dead in my tracks and sucked me straight back to 1992.

Paris-Dakar rally replica. Reliable, economical motor lacks performance