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2022 NORTON V4SV | IS IT REALLY WORTH $77K?

Norton’s new owner has spent two years re-engineering the Norton V4SV. This, at last, is the result Norton’s great strength is its name. Can there be…
Retro

350 CHROME: A ROYAL ENFIELD MODERN CLASSIC

Royal Enfield Classic 350 Chrome : Living with a modern classic If you’re into retro motorcycling, there’s a lot to love about the Royal Enfield Modern Classic…
Bike reviews

30TH ANNIVERSARY FIREBLADE

30 years ago the CBR900RR Fireblade changed motorcycling forever. To celebrate, Honda have created the beautifully modified, limited-edition anniversary Fireblade CBR1000RR-R SP. Why was 1992 a special…
Bike reviews

2022 CFMOTO 300SR: QUICK SPIN

The lairy colour scheme of the 2022 CFMoto 300SR may not be your bag, but it’s hard to argue the value the updated LAMS-approved sportsbike represents When I…
Bike reviews

LAMS ADVENTURE: HIT SINGLES

The subject of LAMS approval is seldom the topic of discussion when you’re standing at the bar talking about adventure bikes. The same names are guaranteed to crop up…
Bike reviews

ADVENTURE BIKE SHOOT-OUT

It’s amazing how much organisation goes into an adventure bike test like this one, so it’s lucky for me that AMCN journo Pete Vorst is so good at, well, organising…
Pre-2000

CAGIVA ELEFANT IN THE ROOM!

Edi Orioli’s January 1990 Paris-Dakar win on the Lucky Explorer Cagiva Elefant 900ie began a huge 12 months for Ducati and its owner Cagiva. By…
Adventure

2022 DUCATI DESERTX: DESERT ROSE

The 2022 Ducati DesertX is a welcome throwback to the early 1990s and the golden era of the infamous Paris-Dakar Rally, an event dominated by gargantuan twin-cylinder dune busters.
Sportsbike

SALT TWOSTROKE 300

Righto, let’s set the scene before we add the Salt. In the last couple of years, there have been a few bikes that get called ‘Australian made’. One comes…
Bike reviews

2022 GASGAS SM 700

To most of us, the name GasGas evokes images of nerveless trials stars bouncing seatless machines from rock to rock, defying sense and gravity, and generally existing on…
Pre-2000

VINCENT BLACK LIGHTNING

Phil Irving was adamant: “V-twins: the only practical alternative to the single,” he wrote as the heading of one of the popular columns he wrote in the…
Bike reviews

2022 TRIUMPH BONNEVILLE T120

The motorcycling world is full to the brim with retro offerings these days. Even if it’s not your thing, it’s hard not to notice that every manufacturer…