To say Honda raised the bar within the middleweight sportbike segment would be an understatement.In our 2007 Supersport Shootout V, the ‘07 CBR600RR stood head and shoulders above the other Japanese 600cc offerings. Name the category and the Honda had it locked. Since completing that test, we’ve logged hundreds of additional track miles on the […]
The Grand Touring is based on the standard Bandit 1250 model, but features extras which include a full fairing, a luggage system and a Garmin Zumo GPS system. These extras add up to £1500(3000$ USD) over the standard ABS model.
The motorcycle will have a recommended retail price of just £6,799(13600$ USD) . Only £1000(2000$ USD) […]
A middleweight Ducati Superbike is not exactly a new concept, so why is there so much buzz about the release of the 2008 Ducati 848 Superbike?
At first glance the 848 appears to be a de-tuned and rebadged 1098. In fact, the new bike shares the majority of its basic architecture with the 1098, but at […]
The idea of a purpose-built, off-road ‘playbike’ may be an unfamiliar one in the UK, but in the USA it’s big business, as proven by Kawasaki’s all-new KLX140.
‘Playbikes’ are essentially what the name implies – a novice and teenager-friendly, small capacity dirtbike for just that, playing on in your larger than average American back yard. […]
Forget cut-price M&S underpants and cheap microwaves, check out these stunning specials about to be off-loaded by the world’s top custom motorcycle builders.
Roger Goldammer’s stunning Nortorious supercharged single café racer and the Experimental two-stroke 250 broke from endless, monotonous stream of American v-twin choppers by using engines you’d never dream of.
The Nortorious used half of a […]
In the principality of Doha, Qatar’s Losail Circuit is the venue for the launch of the new 2008 Honda CBR1000RR Fireblade. MCN’s Chief Road Tester Trevor Franklin is at the circuit testing the new Blade. Here’s his first comments about Honda’s flagship sports bike.
The fast flowing nature of Losail Circuit highlights the Blade’s new attitude, […]
Sharper and lighter than anything that calls itself competition: 120 Nm torque, 155 HP at 10,000 rpm and withs less than 200 kilos fully tanked.
Nonetheless, thanks to innovative solutions and meticulous detail work, we’ve achieved unsurpassed rideability - on the street and on the racetrack, in every situation - of life or riding.
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Honda has launched the radical new CB1000R at the Milan motorcycle show.
Based on the 2007-spec FireBlade engine, it’s the most hardcore naked bike the firm has ever made.
The CB1000R may appear closely related to the Hornet 600, but the CB1000R is only related in its basic styling – the clue is in the name. The […]
Driven by the dynamic force of the new four-cylinder 183 HP engine, the F4 R312
contains the result of eight years of ceaseless technological development poured forth into the most beautiful form ever reproduced on a motorcycle. The subdued sporty tone of its new livery conceals an updated engine equipped with […]
With a claimed 180bhp in road-legal form, and well over 200bhp in race trim, this is the machine Ducati’s works riders,
Troy Bayliss and Michel Fabrizio, will be using next year in an effort to reclaim the World Superbike championship. And around £20,000 will put one in your garage. The new Ducati 1098R gets […]
