Motorcycle Road Tests
06/05/10
We were invited for an exclusive ride with the British bobsleigh team at Innsbruck but needed to get there in a hurry. Cue Suzuki’s Hayabusa and Kawasaki’s ZZR-1400
29/04/10
Ducati’s glorious 1098R thrashed around the the Isle of Man just days before thousands of bikers got there for the 2008 TT. If there’s a two-wheeled heaven, this may just be it
26/04/10
The KTM690 Duke and Kawasaki’s ER-6n have plummeted out of the ugly tree, clattering every branch along the way. is that all?
25/04/10
Can Honda's new sports tourer do the distance?
15/04/10
...Three’s a crowd. Once the choice of the motocross refugee, things are changing in the world of the Supermoto as a new breed emerges. But can a used KTM950SM still cut it?
15/04/10
Triumph’s Street Triple beats the competition on the road, but how about on the track? We enter a completely bog stock street triple into a national race to find out
14/04/10
Flash, fast and fearsomely expensive, the world would be a colder place without exotica like Aprilia’s £15,000 RSV4 Factory. But when Honda’s CBR1000RR is faster, far less expensive, aren’t you better off with a Blade?
14/04/10
Middleweight streetbikes get hammered round a lap of the Isle of Wight, the island made famous by the Regatta and Level 42
12/04/10
Expensive, exclusive, esoteric and bordering on erotic, the latest quartet of exotic Europeans are only for a select few
09/04/10
Kawasaki’s all-new ZX-6R is making a big push for the 600. Is it good enough to kick the others into touch? We rode all five to Holland and back to find out...
09/04/10
A radical new R1 and a spanking new GSX-R taking on the mighty Fireblade and much maligned ZX-10R, the scrap for 1000cc supremacy is closer than ever...
08/04/10
The two surviving muscle bikes of the modern age come together for a pose-down and a rideout, but which one is king?
07/04/10
Just how much V-twin can you get for £3,500? We track down the best twin-cylinder sports bikes on the market
07/04/10
I've upgraded from the 125s and this is my beast for this year
06/04/10
All-new and more powerful than ever, Ducati's big Monster is back to battle the super-naked benchmark: KTM's Super Duke
06/04/10
Small, light and available in a variety of colours and flavours, never before has the congested middleweight street bike market been so fruity
01/04/10
While Ducati cleaned up in superbike racing with Bayliss and Yamaha the year after with Spies, which is better a production version of their winning bikes?
30/03/10
A journey of pain, suffering and 573 miles to Cornwall on a temperamental supermoto, a 50cc sportsbike and an unstable quad.
29/03/10
It’s early 1980 and the threat of the four-stroke invasion hangs heavy in the air. Yamaha and Suzuki have been slugging it out for two years in what may be the final fling for the air-cooled strokers
29/03/10
Would the average rider be better off on one of the latest generation of super-fast streetbikes instead of their usual superbike? We hopped from a CB1000R to a CBR1000RR and back again to find out...
28/03/10
I've been riding the Aprilia for less than 20 yards, in fact I haven't even made it out of the office car park, and I've already got into trouble.
04/03/10
Just what is a sports-tourer these days? Used to be a middle-for-diddle model with zero sex appeal, but these days it could be anything from a superbike with luggage to a purpose-built mile-muncher...
23/01/10
Perfect for slicing through sleepy country towns and getting stern lectures from not-so-sleepy country coppers. This fiery twin has got what it takes to entertain