Bike Reviews
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TESTED: Lexmoto RSS 125 Scrambler
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For a 17-year-old, there’s nothing quite like that first taste of freedom that comes from two wheels, an engine and the open road. We’ve put on our rose-tinted specs to see if Lexmoto’s RSS 125 is the tool for the job. Here’s what our man Richard Graham has to say… I suspect that if you…
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TESTED: Aprilia RS 457
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Bruce Wilson gets to grips with the A2 friendly Assassin… Fixated on goals and the chance to lift the bar in the hotly-contested A2 sportsbike market, there were two sets of numbers that mattered above all else for the firm from Noale: 175 and 47. To elaborate, the lightest an A2 machine can weigh is…
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TESTED: Kawasaki Eliminator 500
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WORDS: Nik Samson PHOTOS: Kawasaki EU The A2 licence-compliant Eliminator takes its cues from the Eliminators of the 1980s, the ZL900s and 1000s and, later, the 600s, too, and there’re very definite styling cues in the rear mudguard, back light, and fuel tank to their drag-strip inspired predecessors. However, the new 500 is an all-new…
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TESTED: Moto Guzzi V85 Strada,TT & Travel
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Here’s what you need to know about the latest version of Moto Guzzi’s much-loved V85 TT and TT Travel, and its new, more road-focused Strada. The V85 was first introduced in concept form in 2017 before going on sale in 2019. More variants were added to the range in 2020, and then in 2021 Guzzi…
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COST-EFFECTIVE CLASSICS: Yamaha TDM850
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It’s a big bore parallel twin… before they became popular again! We’ll get the acid drop rebuke out of the way first – TDM is very much not a contraction of tedium. This sarcastic moniker has plagued the big twin from the off by people who simply didn’t ‘get’ the bike. The TDM has often…
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RIDE BETTER with the Yamaha Off-Road Experience
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If you want to learn how to ride a Yamaha’s Tenere 700 off-road, there’s only one place to go. The Yamaha Off-Road Experience. It was founded by multiple-British Enduro Champion Geraint Jones on his family farm up in the Cambrian Mountains a whopping 30 years ago – and now it’s run by his two sons…
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ROAD TEST: Harley-Davidson Sportster S
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A grunty V-twin motor, fat tyres and feet-forward pegs. It could only be a Harley. Matt Hull does some serious rumbling on the Sportster, here’s Matt’s musings… Life is now about what you look like. What social media will judge you on. How ‘friends’ you’ve never met see your position in society. To hell with…
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ROAD TEST: Harley-Davidson Pan America
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Breaking convention, H-D surprised us all with its refined, robust and well-rounded adventure bike. Ross Mowbray tried it out. Here’s what he thought: The world’s an ever-changing place, and motorcycling reflects that. Manufacturers are constantly navigating the peaks and troughs of what’s ‘on trend’ and what punters want to buy. That’s why Harley-Davidson can no…
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TEST: Ducati Hypermotard 698 Mono
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Bruce Wilson gives Ducati’s Hypermotard a jolly good workout. Here’s what you need to know… Ducati surprised us all with the big reveal of its first mass-production single motor – which has been squeezed into the latest generation of its bonkers, but brilliant, Hypermotard. Four years ago, someone at the factory reckoned they could create…
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TEST: Yamaha MT-09
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Bruce Wilson takes a close look at Yamaha’s hugely popular 900cc hyper-naked… Yamaha’s MT-09 is a special bike. Its big torque, big wheelies, and a practical, comfy riding position have helped sell the dream to the masses in a way the factory could have probably never imagined. A decade and over 200,000 bikes later, there’s…
