Motorcycle Road Tests

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For many riders pure sports bikes are becoming less and less relevant. But what are the options in the middleweight class? That depends how you like to ride and how many cylinders you want…

Stick your Alstare Suzuki and your Ten Kate Honda up your jacksy. When the sun’s shining and you’re up for it, there can be few better seats to slide over for a good buzz than Big K’s Z1000 and Honda’s CB1000R

We’ve ridden the VFR1200F a thousand miles on typical UK roads in typical UK weather. Snow, rain, freezing fog and temperatures of barely more than zero answer one question. How real-world-good is the new VFR?

It’s a bit like meeting a TV star for the first time, they’re never quite as big as they appear on screen. Say hello to the Triumph Tiger and Benelli Tre K. They’re both big, but which is the best?

For the average trail rider in the UK, a full-on enduro bike is overkill. Surely, a road bike with some big knobbly tyres for green-laning is enough? We put three grumpy old men haggard on a trio of BMWs to find out

The commuter motorcycle has grown up and turned into a proper bike in its own right. We took them out of their natural element of city streets for a damn good thrashing on country roads

How does KTM’s 690SMC stack up against Husqvarna’s rip-snorting 510R on the country backroads of southern England?

How do you like your big-mile kicks? We evaluate four different takes on the tourer From the Suzuki Hayabusa to the KTM 990SMT

One manufacturer; BMW, one heavyweight; K1300R and one middleweight; F800R. We settle the size issue once and for all, round one...

Triumph’s riotous Street Triple R is the benchmark middleweight street bike, a bike so alive with character it’s arrival left big street bikes looking a little redundant. How does BMW’s new F800R compare?

Two bikes from the upper echelon of the motorcycle world, the £42,000 Desmosedici RR and the Samurai Type 5

One of the MotoGP gods from the 990 era, the Ducati Desmosedici has been transplanted to a road-going and is now terrifying regular riders

Operating outside the established 600cc and 1000cc classes, the Ducati 848, Suzuki GSX-R750 and Triumph 675 refuse to be pigeon-holed. But are they alternative oddities or right answers?

Hugely powerful and slickly suspended, the new breed of big streetbikes are superbike-fast

Ducati’s hand-made and deliciously savage 1098R is unashamedly brutal, it takes no prisoners and makes no excuses. We lived with the £26k masterpiece for three weeks to find out if you can really live with such excess

A warm, dry Mallory Park Focused Events track day, James Whitham, the four best bikes produced in Europe and a data logger. Let’s get busy…

Small, feisty and peaky, but raw, basic and flawed in some respects. Aside from all that, a beautiful creation and a most lusted after machine. And very, very fast too

Angry, stiff, unforgiving and verging on the unmanageable in inexperienced hands. BUT with a super-strong engine, amazing brakes and a soundtrack to savour. Hard work

Categorically better than its predecessor and properly in contention in the exalted company of the other European exotics. It filled Whit with confidence – and that is quite some recommendation

As a time and motion study, jewellery heists are a pretty profitable blag. What do you need? Simple innit, two fast, thuggish supermoto bikes with plenty of V-twin stomp. A KTM 990SMR and Aprilia Dorsoduro should be enough to get the job done

Reviews and information on the new VFR1200F and the Dual Clutch Transmission (DCT) model

It's decision time for me and my Ninja

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