Bike

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]