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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…
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Living with Yamaha NMax 155

Who is the Yamaha NMax 155 built for? If you’re a learner rider like me, a thick traffic commuter, in need of something to run a few fast and efficient…
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DUCATI MONSTER 659

It’s been 25 years since Miguel Galluzzi left show-goers opened mouth when he whipped the covers off the first-ever M900 Monster at the 1993 Milan Show. And in the two…
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YAMAHA MT-07 HO

Stepping onto Yamaha’s MT-07 HO (High Output) means stepping over the $10K threshold. Investing an additional $900 or so could mean the difference between buying a bike and some quality…