Bike Reviews

Choosing a sports tourer is one of the hardest decisions to make, as the bike must be able to fulfil a huge list of demands.

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The naked Boxer R has always lived in the shadows of its fully dressed RT and Rambo-styled GS siblings. Does it deserve more? If all the dreams we have and all the places we imagine when we want a ‘happy place’, midweek Northamptonshire, in the wet, on a naked bike, is quite possibly and understandably…

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Ducati Multistrada Enduro Pro 1200 (2018) and Honda Africa Twin Adventure Sports (2018) are now ripe for some good second-hand buys. But which is the one to go for? Everyone has their own slightly different opinion about what it is that defines an adventure motorcycle. For some riders, an adventure simply involves a long slog…

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American bikes are big, brash and bathed in bling, right? Not this one.

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Back in the olden days, Yamaha had a reputation for making powerful 125s, writes Alan Dowds. From the (unrestricted) air-cooled RD125DX two-stroke twin of the 1970s, through to the amazing-when-derestricted TZR125 of the 1990s, the tuning fork folks knew how to get the most from an eighth of a litre. They’ve done it again with…

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What started out as a mere design exercise has since become one of Suzuki’s legendary models, ripe for 2019’s reboot. The name ‘Katana’ brings to mind a sharp, curved blade, used by the samurai of feudal Japan. Fitting then, that the name would be used on the winner of a cutting-edge design exercise that German…

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