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Quickspin - BMW HP4 Race

“Oh well,” I thought last year. “I’ll never get to ride that.” It was BMW’s look-what-we-can-do-because-we-can HP4 Race machine, a bike so far above the level of its road-going S…
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First ride - Honda CB1000R

Cripes. Copping your first eyeful of Honda’s new supernaked contender in the flesh can be a bit of a stand back and ‘what the hell’ moment. Yes, the company has…
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Classified Moto's Junior Honda CT70 scrambler

Chasing dreams. It’s the subject of many a self-help manual, Hollywood movie and dolphin-covered motivational poster. It’s also the leading answer you’ll get when you ask most motorcycle riders…
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MV AGUSTA BRUTALE 800RR

The MV Agusta Brutale 800RR is the alpha male of the middleweight nakedbike class. Its inline three-cylinder DOHC engine has 798cc, not the largest on test – that honour goes…
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BMW F 850 GS

The new BMW F 850 GS is something special. BMW have certainly made the focus of this bike to be far more off road oriented than previous years. It’s ability…
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RACER TEST - ELF5

The ultimate expression of the ELF two-wheeled design philosophy was the ELF5 (in turn a development of the unsuccessful ELF4), which carried Ron Haslam to 11th place in the 1988…
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First ride - 2018 Yamaha Tracer 900 and Tracer 900GT

The sports-touring segment contains such a wide variety of motorcycles that it’s difficult to believe everything within it comes under the one banner. The rise in popularity of nakedbikes and…
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World launch - Royal Enfield Continental GT 650 and Interceptor 650

Since taking control of the company, Royal Enfield’s CEO Siddartha Lal has rebuilt the once very British brand from a 30,000 units per annum basket case to an 820,000…
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First ride - 2019 KTM 1290 Super Duke GT

The 2019 Super Duke GT is even more fun to ride than before. It’s sharper, stronger and more refined in every way – a fact underlined by the outgoing 2018…
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TRIUMPH STREET TRIPLE 765 RS

According to a show of hands, the Triumph Street Triple 765 RS does not have the looks to match some of the other bikes on our test, ( Suzuki SV650X, …
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KTM 790 DUKE

There was a collective sigh of disappointment when KTM dropped its single-cylinder 690 Duke from its line-up. Of all the Dukes, the 690 retained the strongest DNA link with the…
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FIRST RIDE - Triumph’s 765cc Moto2 racer

When news broke that Triumph was set to replace Honda as the control engine supplier for Moto2 with a specially tuned version of its then-new 765cc triple, eyebrows were raised…