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Carberry Double Barrel V2

Billed by local press as ‘India’s first Superbike’ on the grounds that it’s the largest-capacity motorcycle to be entirely built in that country, the Carberry Double Barrel V2’s…
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HONDA CBR1100XX - 1997-2009

The last Honda we reviewed here was the brand’s diminutive CBR250RR baby ’Blade. Now from the opposite end of the CBR scale comes its much bigger brother, the…
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2018 Kawasaki Z900RS

The appealing thing about old bikes is that they look cool, stir memories of lustfully wanting what you couldn’t have, or that you did own and wish you still…
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2018 Ducati Panigale V4 S

Valencia’s Circuit Ricardo Tormo is a technical track, the current crop of production superbikes will spend a lot of the lap in second gear, snatching third a…
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Living with KTM Duke 390

I walked into the garage the other day to ride the KTM Duke 390 to work, when I realised it had been at least two weeks since I’d…
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2018 Suzuki SV650X

If you are in the market for a motorcycle that boasts an extra bit of pizazz – that wow factor – then it’s generally the European brands that will…
Road

KTM Duke 390

Design mob KISKA has done a brilliant job with the 2017 390 Duke. Its long, sharp lines with KTM’s signature split LED headlight create an optical illusion…
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Second hand Aprilia Shiver 750 2007- 2017

THE LAUNCH OF Aprilia’s impressive new Shiver 900 – reviewed by Steve Martin in AMCN Vol 67 No 12 – has people talking again about the Italian bike with the…
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MV AGUSTA F3 675 RC

Standing there looking 14) and here I am again, staring at it, I honestly don’t know whether to boof it or ride it. If you read my column last issue…
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Iron Legends - 1910 Pierce Four

Firing up the Pierce’s engine is one of the most difficult things to do, but fortunately I have help at hand. John Rhodes, the caretaker of this exquisite 1910…
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Suzuki RG500 Gamma

Cher said it best: If I could Turn Back Time. My two-stroke whipper snipper was strumming away and I was dreaming about things I’d rather be doing. I got…
Pre-2000

Nozem Amsterdam BMW R107R R 80

If the original design team at BMW knew their sandals-with-socks tourers would get turned into bikes like this, they’d have choked on their strudel. Despite…