Street Bikes
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Jawa 660 Sportard review
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Jawa 660 Sportard | From £6745 | 48.8bhp@6500rpm | 42lb-ft@6000rpm | 660cc four-valve SOHC single-cylinder Tested by John Milbank Photos by Joe Dick Building bikes since 1929, Jawa is a European manufacturer exporting to over 20 countries worldwide. Its popular twin-cylinder two-stroke 350s are the last of the big oil-burners, but the new 660…
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Reader Review: 2006 Aprilia Tuono RSV1000R | Reader review
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Name: Steve Skinner From: Derbyshire Riding for: 30 years Price paid for the bike: £6000 in 2008 from a 60 teal-old private seller What type of riding do you do: Fastish road, with the odd track day (intermediate level) and tootles with the Mrs to the coast. Tell us about the engine: It’s a stomper. I added a pair of Akrapovic titanium…
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Midual Type 1 review | World first ride
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Midual Type 1 €140,000 | 1036cc | 4-stroke flat-twin | 107bhp @ 7800rpm | 72.3lb-ft @ 6000rpm Tested by: Alan Cathcart Photos: Kel Edge It’s increasingly difficult to dream up any new way of building a four-stroke motorcycle engine – with Honda’s MotoGP world title-winning V5 RC211V being the last notable such example over a decade ago – but…
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2012 Honda Hornet CB600F review| Used bike
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Used price: £5499 | 100bhp | 47lb-ft | liquid-cooled inline-four Tested by Bob Pickett The Honda CB600F Hornet came into existence as a rival for Suzuki’s spectacularly successful Bandit and Yamaha’s original Fazer. The current model dates from 2007, when it had a total revamp. The model we tested is the final iteration –…
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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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Yamaha TRX850 review | Used bike
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Steve Cooper from the Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club picks out another great example of classic oriental metal When it comes to taking the left-field approach to motorcycle design, no one does it better than Yamaha. Their mind-set is noticeably different to that of the competitions’ and they are often cited as being the most European…
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Reader Review: 1999 Honda Hornet CB600F | Reader review
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Name: Carl Stafford From: Warwickshire Riding for: 3 years Price paid for the bike: £1200 in 2011 from a work friend What type of riding do you do: 90% of my riding is the 40 mile round trip to work on a mixture of A roads and town work. When days off without the family so rarely arrive I tend to…
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Living with an electric motorcycle: The truth | Brammo Empulse R road test
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Editor John Milbank spent a few days with a Brammo Empulse R electric motorcycle to find out if it’s time to ditch the pump. Photos: Simon Hipperson This bike probably isn’t for you. Chances are you enjoy a good thrash at the weekend, touring to far flung reaches of the globe, or racking up miles on…
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2014 Ducati Monster 821 review
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£8995 | 112bhp@9250rpm | 65.9lb-ft@7750rpm | 821cc liquid-cooled V-twin 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. The launch of the Monster 821 is a big deal for Ducati, but nowhere…
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2014 Brammo Empulse R review | First UK ride
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Brammo Empulse R: £15,350 | 54bhp@4500rpm | 66lb-ft | Liquid-cooled electric motor Tested by: John Milbank Photos: Joe Dick If you have an irrational hatred of electric vehicles, you’d best stop reading, because this might upset you: Electric bikes are here to stay, and they’re getting more fun with every new machine. Currently the world’s…
