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Test fleet review: Yamaha XSR700 Cada Día | Part 4

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21st October 2016

Editor John takes the little Yamaha to the dyno as a high-level pipe goes on… Keeping in mind that this needs to be a practical custom bike, I could have kept the stock exhaust, or maybe gone for the new Remus Hexacone full system costing £666 from Performance Parts (www.performanceparts-ltd.com) – that would have given me…
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Test fleet review: Yamaha XSR700 Cada Día | Part 3

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21st October 2016

Cutting-edge tech makes up for a lack of progress on the rest of the build. I admit I’m slightly nervous at how slowly I’m modifying Cada Día, my Yard Built custom project. It’s always been intended as a truly usable bike (hence the name, which is Spanish for ‘every day’), and that means that the…
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Test fleet review: Yamaha XSR700 Cada Día | Part 2

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21st October 2016

MSL’s Yard Built project continues with 3D modelling at Evotech-Performance. For such a retro-styled bike, the XSR is swamped with technology as it sits on the ramp at Evotech-Performance in Alford, Lincolnshire. Mike Evans is carefully passing a 3D scanner over the Yamaha to create a digital model that can be manipulated on computer. The…
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Test fleet review: Yamaha XSR700 Cada Día | Part 1

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21st October 2016

Editor John Milbank begins MSL’s exclusive Yard Built project… According to Google Translate, ‘cada día’ is Spanish for ‘every day’. I’m building a custom bike, but this is Motorcycle Sport & Leisure – you and I ride our bikes. Every day if we can. In June, I’ll be riding Cada Día to the Wheels and…
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TESTED: 2014 Yamaha Super Ténéré reader review

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11th October 2016

60-year-old semi-retired teacher Hugh Fuller shares his experience of Yamaha’s adventure bike… I’ve been riding since I was 16 (on a stripped down Honda fifty), and now ride around four to five thousand miles a year. I don’t own any other bikes now, but have put 9600 on the Super Ten, which I bought in…
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TESTED: 2008 Yamaha TDM900A reader review

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11th October 2016

56-year-old Ian Watson from Fife shares his experience of Yamaha’s great all-rounder… This is my only bike, which I use to cover around 4000 miles every year. I bought it in May 2009 for £5495 from my local Yamaha dealer (and ex-Scottish Road Race Champion) Alan Duffus in Kirkcaldy. I’ve put 28,000 miles on it,…
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TESTED: 2015 Triumph Tiger 800 XRx reader review

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11th October 2016

64 year-old Chris Foreman, a part-time telecoms consultant from Hertfordshire, gives us the low-down on his adventurer… I’ve been riding since 1969, and haven’t been without two wheels since. I typically cover about 5000 miles per year, and also have a 1981 BMW R100RS (1981) and a Sym Symphony 125 that fits in the back…
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TESTED: 1991 BMW R65GS reader review

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11th October 2016

A Personal fitness trainer, 56-year-old Duncan Evans reveals his home-built custom… I served my apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer, then worked my way through a number of industries finishing in aerospace, before being a trainer for the past ten years. I started riding at 14 and got an FS1E at 16, before a new RD…
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TESTED: 2005 Triumph Speed Triple reader review

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11th October 2016

MSL reader Matt James, a 46-year-old IT manager (and self-proclaimed frustrated traveller), shares his passion for his Hinckley roadster… I’ve been riding since I owned a Yamaha FS1E at 16, and bought the Speed Triple – the first of the 1050 models – in March 2007 from Total Triumph in Taunton. I’d liked the look…
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TESTED: 2011 BMW R1200RT reader review

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11th October 2016

MSL reader Anthony Greenwood, 56-year-old manager of a shop-monitoring business, shares his passion for the Bavarian tourer… I bought the RT brand new in Spring 2011 from Cannon BMW in Witham – they offered me a good deal as I wanted quite a few extras, and it had already been announced that there was a…
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