Retro Classic
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Mash Roadstar 400 review
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Mash Roadstar 400 review | £3799 | 29bhp@7000rpm | 22lb-ft@5500rpm | air-cooled 4-valve single Tested by: Peter Henshaw Photos by: Mykel Nicolaou The Mash is that rare thing in motorcycling; an entirely new brand. Yet the Roadstar 400 is based around 1980s technology. This bike is really about its cool retro styling – a…
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2015 Ducati Scrambler review
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2015 Ducati Scrambler review | From £7030 OTR | 75bhp@8250rpm | 50lb-ft @5750rpm | 803cc air-cooled, Desmodromic 90° V-twin Tested by: John Milbank Forget Ducati; the Scrambler is its own brand. The Scrambler is tee-shirts, jackets, open-face helmets, watches, goggles… it’s being hip, it’s self expression, it’s style. The fact that it’s also a…
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Herald Classic 250 and Herald Café 250 review
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Herald Classic 250 and Herald Café 250 review | £2842 | 21bhp | 14.4lb-ft | air-cooled single-cylinder four-stroke Tested by: John Milbank Photos: Joe Dick After the popularity of the HMC Classic 125, a larger capacity bike was inevitable. The company is looking to develop a keen following with its range of bikes, so all…
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2011 Kawasaki W800 vs Triumph Bonneville | Group test review
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Kawasaki W800 vs Triumph Bonneville: Two modern retro-styled roadsters, and great bikes in their own right or a poor nod to a time gone by? Steve Rose and Bruce Wilson took used examples from 2011 for a ride to find out… Steve’s ride on the Kawasaki W800 It’s 6am somewhere in middle England. The sound of a lone…
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Kawasaki GPZ900R review| Used bike
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Steve Cooper from the Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club picks out another great example of classic oriental metal To think of the GPZ as ‘just another old bike’ is to miss everything the 30-year-old Ninja gave the world of motorcycling… If you own a liquid cooled four-cylinder motorcycle today, you owe a debt of thanks to…
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2014 Royal Enfield Continental GT review
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£5200 OTR | 535cc 4 stroke single | 29.1bhp |44Nm @ 4000rpm Lying flat on the tank of this retro-styled bike, throttle held at the stop and with the roar of 44 identical red machines around me, I can’t stop grinning, but despite this being a modern bike, it’s the sixties that put me…
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Honda CB1300 Used bike review
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Overview It kind of all started with 1993’s ‘The Big-1’. Powered by a CBR1000 motor, the name was (thankfully) soon dropped, as the rumour was that ‘Big- 1’ was a registered trademark of an American brand of toilet cleaner… Despite the fact that the renamed ‘Super Four’ failed to shift in big numbers in the…
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2009 Moto Guzzi V7 Classic Review
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The Guzzi V7 Classic is a retro of strong pedigree. If you want a bike to take you back in time, this could be the one.
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Triumph Bonneville T100
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Unashamedly celebrating the past, the Bonneville T100 serves a perfect reminder of how things used to be back in the days when open-face helmets were the norm and the Ace Café was doing a roaring trade with rockers. One of three Bonnevilles in the current range, the T100 is the most authentic replica of…
