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Moto Guzzi V7 Café Classic

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 […]

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Honda Luxury GoldWing

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 […]

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Obscure classic

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 […]

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Honda Hornet

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 […]

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Yamaha XJ600

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 […]

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Yamaha XVS250

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. […]

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BMW K1300 series

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 […]

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Yamaha XT660R

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 […]