Bike

Epic Engineering The sex appeal of the Honda VFR1200F lies in its engineering There’s been a creeping blandness pervading the design of Honda’s cars and bikes since Mr Honda shuffled off this mortal coil and […]

New bikes of 2011 Go ahead, make my year… The Bear goes gonzo on the bikes that are hitting the showrooms just about now ‘You’ve seen them all on the web, sure – but while […]

Better Blaster Hard to believe, but it’s an even … For two decades, the Kawasaki GTR brand on the litre bike was associated with unpretentious, vanilla mile-munching. Then came the 1400, which blew the power […]

The Bellman’s bike What I tell you three times is true, he said – but does that apply to wheels? Lewis Carroll’s Bellman and his crew were hunting Snarks, but they would probably have settled […]

Time for the injection The Koreans move with the times Hyosung has been on the Australian market for a few years and the brand keeps improving. The latest bikes have gone a long way towards […]

It’s-a cruis-a! Moto Guzzi’s latest cruiser is a blast I have always liked Moto Guzzi’s Californias – laid-back machines with big saddles, upright riding positions and surprisingly (for the class) good handling. But the perennial […]

Weather? It’s “what weather?” on a GT It didn’t rain quite as hard some of the time as it did the rest of the time, but it didn’t entirely stop raining either while I was […]

Split personality Friendlier? More like Mr Hyde… Ducati has cachet – even people who don’t know anything about bikes respect the name – but buying into the brand at the serious end can be pricey. […]

Feet-forward travelling A scooter can take you a long way – if it’s a maxi How many different kinds of scooters are there? The equivalent question will always get you an argument among motorcyclists. Some […]

Lord, but it’s hard If you see someone on one of these – respect! There is a lot of techno stuff I should probably tell you about this bike, but I’ve covered most of it […]