“We ARE rocket scientists” – so reads the slogan on the sweatshirt of Robin Tuluie. In fact, Tuluie was originally an astrophysicist before he moved to Mercedes-Benz in 2011 and…
The MT-07 had a scratch. Two in fact – one on the tank decal and one just beneath it. “Wonder how that happened,” I pondered out loud to my colleagues.
Ask people to name five classic British motorcycle marques and a few names will invariably come up. Triumph, obviously … Norton, of course … and Royal Enfield, even if it…
There’s something about the Grom that brings out the grom in everyone, no matter how miserable they are. Even the guy in his tray-topped dick extension who, upon seeing me…
Sitting astride the Moto Guzzi V7 II Special Scrambler, I look down to be greeted by a familiar sight. Just ahead of my knees are the exposed alloy rocker covers…
The XDiavel is a completely new bike, a new motorcycling experience, and it doesn’t need all the theatrics for me to recognise and report that it is a truly brilliant…
There’s no arguing the new Brutale 800 is stunning. It’s still the jaw-dropping poster bike the original model was 15 years ago. This is the first machine to come from…
BMW’s ‘airhead’ models established the brand’s reputation as handy touring bikes long before the factory launched its ‘full-dress’ tourer, the R100RT, in 1978. Numerous RT and LT (luxury tourer) models…
Honda has tread a fine line with the CTX 1300 , opting to wrap its whisper quiet V4 engine in space-age bagger styling, but when it comes to eating up…
The concept behind Triumph’s Tiger Sport is not new, but it’s one that’s proved hard to perfect. In the modern world most things, including motorcycles, are built for one purpose:…
With Yamaha’s YZF-R1 sitting pretty as top dog in the performance-bike stakes as the new millennium dawned, Suzuki’s reputation for super-competitive machines was under serious challenge. While its GSX-R750, the…
While Barry Sheene, Kenny Roberts and newcomer Randy Mamola chased each other around Le Mans, a group of white-clad Japanese Honda R&D staff hunched around the world’s two most technically…
