Bike

Winner The ’Blade takes the front running All over the world, the Fireblade just keeps on winning. It knocked the Suzuki GSX-R1000 off its pedestal when it took out the International Bike of the Year […]

Ready for anything This year’s naked bike is a lot more than last year’s supersports Yamaha’s FZ1N (for “naked”; there’s also a half-faired S version) and bikes like it are essentially older versions of the […]

Baby Ninja Small but very smart There are still states where you need to learn on a 250cc bike. The outcome is a lively market for 250s, at least in the states where they are […]

Heartbreaker The bike is beautiful. Can it save the factory? Let’s start by bemoaning the fact that Moto Guzzi, the oldest European factory with continuous motorcycle production, the most venerable, I suppose, Italian motorcycle brand […]

The Year of Living Safely Lots of innovation in the Touring range, much of it about safety Believe it or not, running a motorcycle magazine is not all hard slog for poor pay in appalling, […]

Still the way to fly The Honda GoldWing’s airbag doesn’t look elegant when it’s deployed but what price your life? There are two reasons you do not ever want to see the airbag on your […]

MOTOM 98T You can beam this one up, Scotty Born in the same year as I, Motom didn’t prove to be quite as resilient. It died in the early 1960s, but then again there was […]

What can you do with your Hornet? Heaps… Ah, bless the quiet years in model development! Honda hasn’t had a great swag of new models recently, so the thoughts of the MPE gang in Campbellfield […]

The Grudge To know it is to, well, find out for yourself! It would be fair to say that I had a grudge against this Yamaha before I even threw a leg over it. I […]

Swing low Short and sweet, that’s Yamaha’s Virago replacement The Virago range made many friends for Yamaha, and some of them are still wondering why the bikes had to be replaced with the V-Star range. […]