Motorcycle Road Tests

Andy Hogan and John Stevens share a 2009 Kawasaki ZX-6R for a year. Here's their review

We loved the Victory Hammer S so much after the test we didn’t want to give it back. We still don’t!

BMW’s best-selling bike for the past three years, Tim Cummings revels in his role as supersub as the GS does what it’s supposed to do...

The GTR’s been waiting for a trip like this. Over two weeks at large in France, Ben Miller’s Kawasaki proves little less than awesome

Our undisputed king of the Supersport class for 2009, Niall Mackenzie explains why he wouldn’t swap the YZF-R6 for anything else...

The dark horse of this year’s litre class, the GSX-R1000 just keeps on impressing Visordown’s Deputy Editor and keen club racer, Rob Hoyles.

Six very different bikes with one thing in common – an identical 2,500 miles to cover through France in less than five days. Visordown takes our long-term test fleet out of the comfort zone to find out more about the bikes we thought we knew so well…

James Whitham's review of the Harley XR1200

The term ‘all-rounder’ is usually associated with the phrase ‘lose the will to live’. But this machine is very different. That’s because it’s very good

Genuine MotoGP technology lies inside the latest manifestation of the wonderful R1. It’s not flawless but it’s verging on the fantastic

Not many bikes manage to change people’s perceptions of an entire factory. But BMW engineered a seismic shift in attitude with this big-inch brute, the machine that put the tonic into Teutonic. Believe

Few bikes have ever come as close to living up to the ‘Factory’ tag as this Noale nut-job. Expensive, hard to ride slowly, unruly on the road but totally in its element on a track – it’s just got to be the best bike of the year

The littlest, cutest Yam has reawakened youth to the idea of misspending it riding motorcycles, which has got to be a good thing. We should all know better, but just can’t help ourselves

Despite being brilliant to ride, to many riders bikes are little more than an efficient form of transport.

Right now is the time for enjoying the sun on two wheels. Whether it’s maximum speed or maximum cool you’re after, we rounded up the four best second-hand bikes we could find for £4,000 that provide the biggest bang for your summer buck...

Niall Mackenzie spends some quality time with the Yamaha R6, here's his review

A posing bike for the poser, Barry Tavner tries to capture the 'cool' on the Triumph Bonneville

We review the R1200GS Adventure to see what it's really like to live with

BMW have launched two new streetbikes for 2009, the twin-cylinder F800 and the 150bhp K1300R. Is all that extra power, weight and expense at all justifiable?

Heading my way? Three of the sauciest 125s ever made hanging out for slappers in Amsterdam’s De Wallen district

We all do it. Even if we don’t admit it. Traffic light racing. Silly and purile maybe, but when another bikes lines up alongside and the lights turn green, you going to just let him go? How to do it. And the best bikes to do it on...

1984. A great year for films, a seminal year for music, and the year Kawasaki stole Suzuki’s Katana 1100 thunder with their all-new watercooled GPZ900R. Overnight, superbikes had suddenly entered the computer age

John Cantlie's long term impressions of the BMW R1200GS Adventure

A KTM 990, Honda Transalp and BMW HP2 get stuck into the muddy action at the WRC Wales Rally as we go searching for freestyle legend Travis Pastrana