Motorcycle First Ride Reviews

Honda's top-selling naked middleweight gets a top-to-toe revamp, sharp new looks and the world's ugliest exhaust collector box

Have the crazy Germans come up trumps with an entertaining, oddball parts bin special? BMW's K1200R Sport has arrived

Yamaha's breezy, breathless middleweight gets some minor updates and a slightly longer name. A dash of midrange would be nice, too. Will it be enough to rule the morning dash to work?

Corsaro too lairy? Then here's a more amiable naked.

Harder, sharper and more track focused than ever before. The new ZX-6R challenges you to a fight down at your local race track. He who reaches his limit first, loses.

Achingly beautiful, plain aching to ride. Another classic stunner from Italy.

Yamaha's latest Star is an exercise in big-small.

Yamaha won the supersport 600 sales war in 2006, and Honda is out for revenge. They think the all-new CBR600RR is the tool for the job, and Niall Mackenzie reckons they might be right.

After the hype comes the reality. And for lucky Niall that reality is served on the silver platter that is Kyalami circuit in South Africa. And the verdict? Oh my word, are you ready for this?

A resurgent Moto Guzzi unveils another new model, and at a race track ferchrissakes. Mackenzie rides the new 1200 Sport.

Fancy an ER-6 but find it a bit too small? The Versys offers relief. John Hogan rides Kawasaki's lanky new 'any road' tool.

A Ducati with 50 per cent reduced maintenance costs? What have they done? Chopped off one of the cylinders? A confused Jon Urry investigates.

The original naked bad boy gets some extra bling and even more fire in its belly. Jon Urry braves an Italian hill climb course on the new Tuono Factory.

"A Derbi Mull-who-son?" I queried. "It's pronounced Mull-hass-en," said Tim.

Ducati's sports tourer gets ABS and some flashy suspension for '06. But is it a credible alternative to similar offerings from Triumph and Honda?

Another new Boxer hits the road. On looks alone this one won't set the world on fire, but surprise, surprise, it's quite good fun.

Suzuki's trusty Bandit has swollen in capacity for 2005, but is this enough to put the planet's longest-serving middleweight back in the frame?

Two years on and the all-conquering CBR600RR gets its first major revamp. Has the best just got better? Crash test dummy Niall flies to Estoril to find out.

It's war in the battle for the hearts, minds and money of 17-year-old learner riders as Derbi launch an all-out assault with two new models. Daryll is called up to investigate.

A number of performance-enhancing tweaks make this year's R6 a faster and more exciting proposition. Riding tips from Valentino Rossi not included...

It's big and bold, but is Yamaha's design-leading naked bike any good or just the product of an overactive imagination?Jon Urry travels to South Africa in search of answers.

Niall travels to Holland to injure himself on purpose aboard Suzuki's new, and very grunty, four-stroke motocrosser.

An Austrian brute pumped full of steroids is the only way to describe the first ever-pure streetbike from KTM. If Arnold Schwarzenegger was a bike he'd be the Super Duke...

Niall gives Honda's '05 model CRF450 and 250 'crossers a muddy run for their money.