Bike

Lucky 13? Brendan Nelson almost sounds as if he’s sorry he ponied up for his Hayabusa Photos: Keith Muir, BMW Factory, Brendan Nelson Europe’s largest motorcycle manufacturer was using this year’s Superbikes at the Island […]

Is the R the Aussie bike that the X wasn’t? Sometimes it’s hard for me to work out what the importers are thinking, but then I think I’m hardly Robinson Crusoe there. I remember riding […]

ABS has become well and truly affordable Anti-lock braking is the way of the future. Not only is it an all-round good thing and becoming better, it’s also going to be required on almost all […]

Bright Spark You don’t have to ride a big butch bike to have fun I made a huge mistake when Suzuki launched the progenitor of the Gladius, the SV650, in Australia. Much as I liked […]

Bone China Pared back and slim – and part Chinese This may sound silly, but the bike I’ve ridden that felt closest to the XCountry was the original DT-1 Yamaha. Yes, I know it wasn’t […]

Straight to the top Want more bottom end or midrange? Wimp. The original Griso was a powerful machine, a dyed-in-the-wool GT (Grand Tourer), and the new “Quattrovalvole” engine of this bike, with four valves to […]

Why you need more than one Mike Grant gets un-super-sized When I was young enough to be saving pocket money to buy motorcycle magazines so I could drool over their pages and dream about the […]

Take it to the max Sporty scooting? Why not? The TMAX has usually been considered as the sporty one among the maxi (over about 250cc) scooters, and the 2008 model takes that concept to the […]

Riding the range Words: The ARR crew Photos: Nick Wood Rudi from Kawasaki usually has something interesting to say when he rings up. This time it was even more interesting than usual. “Hey, Bear,” he […]

What’s in a badge? Hinckley’s latest wins hearts and minds The near-sainted Edward Turner and I have at least one thing in common. We don’t always get it right. When Turner sketched the Ariel Square […]