Bike

Traffic Muncher Honda’s SH300i scooter: a sports bike in a commuter body? Once upon a time, scooters knew their place in society. They were never bigger than 150cc and were strictly confined to the congested […]

Maverick The mission: turn a KTM Supermoto into a tourer. Did it work? What do you get when you cross a sheep with a kangaroo? A “woolly jumper”, right? But what do you get when […]

Freedom Machine It’s late, but it’s here now The name “Ténéré” has been synonymous with off-road adventures ever since the original dual-sport machine was first launched in the early 1980s. Developed from Yamaha’s Dakar race-winning […]

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 […]