Motorcycle First Ride Reviews

Initial impressions from the MV Turismo Veloce launch at Varese today

First ‘British’ spin round the Isle of Man on Honda’s new naked litre roadster

After a brief ride on launch in Spain, I leapt at the chance to bag a UK exclusive first ride

Naked fun with mucho skids and wheelies

Big-selling budget middleweight roadsters go head to head - in televisual form

Gloriously absurd V-twin touring pantechnicon thrapped round Croatia

Al's got a high-tech Kymco maxi-scooter in for a look-see

Hate Dowds even more by watching his holiday video from Almeria in Spain the other week...

Impressive three wheeler uses hugely interesting technology – but it’s not perfect

Al’s just back from riding Yamaha's new three-wheeler round the Austrian Alps. Here’s his first thoughts...

It's lighter than a world superbike, makes 215bhp and has the best of everything. Al quails before the HP4's might

It’s the brand new Duke of torque!

How the Scalpel's ride-by-wire throttle works in the different modes

Our man Al wobbling round on BMW's £68k, 215bhp/146kg carbon-clad missile

£68k trackday über-bike in ‘really good’ shock

RIding new 2018 Harley-Davidson Sportsters in Croatia

Excellent power figure from the new twin

We take the new Royal Enfield Himalayan on a road trip through the Lake District in order to find out whether it's a worthy adventure machine...

Middle of the road, left in the garage, or right on target? We test the 2018 Yamaha MT-07 against Suzuki's new SV650X

We swap the 690 Duke for its bigger brother

Say hello to the Duke of Hazard

We find out how many ponies our long-term KTM 690 Duke puts out

Laura tests the MV Agusta's Brutale 800 RR in Italy...

Full test of the new Tracer 900 and 900GT from Mark Forsyth at the launch in Spain - part one