The Honda GL1800 Gold Wing Luxury is supposed to be a tourer par excellence, so what did our riding pair think of its performance in the Lake District?
London to the French Alps on a 20 year-old Honda CD250. Ridden by someone who only just passed their test a week before. In the depths of winter. And with their snowboard strapped to the side of this rusty shitbox…
In the age when Valentino Rossi openly disapproves of all electronic aids in MotoGP, Honda launches a totally new ABS-system, developed specifically for sportsbikes. Meet the 2009 Fireblade CBR1000RR C-ABS.
Beloved of the happily middle-aged (and the police), unobtrusive, but more than capable of letting fly on a twisty road, Honda's ST1100 was a marvelous thing. Can the same be said of the ST1300?
Arguably the original sports tourer and certainly the best - or at least that was the case before Honda monkeyed with the formula when it relaunched the VFR with VTEC in 2002..
The creator of modern sportsbikes is now a reserved classic in the world of it's offspring, Niall Mackenzie takes a look at the orginal Honda Fireblade