Sports Bikes
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WK Bikes SP50
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£1799 www.wkbikes.com Nice looking sports bike, just a shame it’s four-stroke rather than getting a revvy two-stroke engine. Twist & Go issue reviewed: N/A Tech Spec Engine: 49cc Four-stroke Gearbox: Geared Licence required: AM Claimed power: 4bhp Fuel tank size: 19ltrs We say: 50cc sports bike from WK.
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Yamaha FZR1000 EXUP Buying Guide
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Forget GSX-R1100s:Yamaha’s FZR1000 EXUP is the classic superbike bargain… In this age of sky-high new bike prices, it’s worth remembering what’s available at the other end of the biking spectrum. not only are certain machines now excellent bargains, some are also downright good bikes, with the added bonus of becoming a potential modern classic. The…
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2011 Ducati 848 Evo Review
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More power, better brakes, superb handling: the new 848 EVO is a proper middleweight superbike
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2014 Yamaha MT-09 review
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£6949 | 113bhp@10,000rpm | 64.5lb-ft@8000rpm | 847cc liquid-cooled triple Tested by Roland Brown. Motorcycle Journalist and former international racer, Roland Brown is one of the world’s most respected bike testers. Subscribe to his fantastic YouTube channel – iMotorcycle Video – here. Given the way Yamaha suffered in the credit crunch, with high prices and falling sales, the MT-09…
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Yamaha YZF600R Thundercat used bike review
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Forget the odd name: the Thundercat is arguably one of the most versatile, real world sports bikes ever made When society is so keen on pigeon holing as much of life as possible (bikes included) it’s refreshing to find there’s amachine that has the ability to cut across divides, doesn’t cost an arm and a…
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2011 Suzuki GSX-R750 L1 review
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Just four bends into my third session aboard this latest version of Suzuki’s legendary three quarter- litre rocketship, and already my spirits are soaring and my doubts have been blown away. The GSX-R750 L1’s tyres aren’t even back up to full temperature, yet the bike has just sliced through the Spanish Monteblanco circuit’s second-gear chicane…
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2011 Ducati Diavel review
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Ducati’s new Diavel is a sports bike in muscle cruiser clothing It’s a sunny saturday afternoon in southern spain, and the famously twisty A-397 from Ronda to the coast is teeming with sports bikes. This is motorcyclists’ heaven but it’s not the place where a giant V-twin muscle bike with kicked-out forks, a laidback riding…
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2011 Triumph Daytona 675R Review
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It’s one of the oldest and most popular tuning tricks in the book: adding uprated suspension, brakes and carbon fibre parts to create a higher specification version of an existing model. Aprilia and Ducati regularly use Öhlins and Brembo to add performance and glamour to their carbon-clad supersports flagships. Triumph themselves already have an…
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Suzuki RGV250 Used Bike Buying Guide
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Bursting with technology and GP heritage, the RGV250 is still a bargain stink wheel American critic and commentator Alexander Woolcott once stated: “All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening”. Had he lived until the introduction of Suzuki’s sublime RGV250 he’d have found the bike ticked at least…
