Motorbike

Upon its launch, the 2001 GSX-R1000 swept all before it. Six years later it is still arguably the best of the litre sports bike brood, but how does it handle in the fiercely fought second-hand sector?

The Ducati Monster S4Rs Testastretta gets a 999 130bhp engine and a chassis to match any superbike. Wide bars, wide attitude, wide grin.

Designed to take on and beat the Ducatis in WSB, the SP-1 and SP-2 did just that. But how does it fare in the more cut-throat world of used sales? Bertie Simmonds finds out.

Another rabid machine from Aprilia? Excellent...

A great bike to live with day in, day out and manages to out-bat the Honda on all fronts. Hurrah for Blighty!

Jon Bentman reviews this fine Kawasaki motorcycle for your pleasure. Or so he told us.

Andy loved his R6 and rolled around on it like a cut-price Rossi. Here's his review

I’d expect to make a decent saving over those more established rivals before parting with my cash, but the Comet is worth a look

Whitham is joined by British greats to assess the supersport machines

The latest batch of thousand cc superbikes are so fast, efficient and similar to each other that it’s now almost impossible to tell them apart. Niall and James put forward the argument that in 2008, it really doesn’t matter which model you ride anymore...

Seven 1,000cc streetbikes with no fairings, low top speeds and stacks of attitude. With your head stuck out in the breeze 100mph really feels like 100mph - welcome back to proper biking

Ducati's Hypermotard goes toe-to-toe with KTM and Buell through the vicious twists and turns of a Championship hill-climb event in Wiltshire.

Like Barbara Windsor, it hasn't been considered sexy for years. So what's kept the ZZ-R600 on Kawasaki's books all this time? It's the fastest, squashiest, flying sofa has ever seen, that's why...

Welcome to a world of high tea, cucumber sandwiches, and screaming petrol engines as the naked middleweights tear into...

Urry's been to Hungary to track test KTM's super spec Super Duke.

Meet Bob he's the biking experience you never knew you wanted.

Ducati enters the supermoto scene with a bang. That'll be the mirror on a car's door then...

It's pricey single-cylinder special time.

Who the hell let Urry out on a bike that expensive? He'll bring down Lloyds of London if he falls off.

Is WSB exciting right now, or what? JT's Blade neck and neck with the R1 of Nitro and Troy C. Not to mention Max and the new K7. But what of the road bikes that lie beneath? Yes, what of...?

It's a monster mash touring bash on the mightiest mile-eaters motorcycling can muster. Wallflowers need not apply.

Yamaha's YZF-R1 goes head-to-head with itself in a bitter, old-versus-new family feud. Niall Mackenzie splits the difference in sunny southern Spain.

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?

The 999 didn't win so many hearts, but it won a lot of races. The 1098 has us weak at the knees but can it perform? Dukes go head-to-head in Spain.