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2008 Suzuki GSX650F – Road Test Review

photography by Kevin Wing If you're going to commute on a motorcycle in 38-degree temperatures, it may as well be on a bike you really...

2008 Suzuki B-King – Road Test Review

TOKYO, Japan, October 2001: At the annual motorcycle show here this month, among the parade of exotic concept bikes, one neo hot-rod spoke to...

2008 Moto Guzzi Breva 1200 Sport – Road Test Review

It has been said that Moto Guzzi is rather like Italian politics: Every year there is a new government, but nothing really changes. For...

2008 Kawasaki Versys 650 – Road Test Review

Many psychologists contend that nagging is counterproductive. Fortunately, that wasn't the case with Kawasaki, as the flood of e-mails requesting that it bring its...

2008 Triumph Street Triple – Road Test Review

Clicking through the gears, I'm flanked by the Italian countryside. After a thorough rain shower the night before, the roads are clean, albeit a...

2007 Kawasaki Z1000 – Road Test Review

When you look at all the bikes on the road today, it's pretty easy to identify their respective categories. You've got your cruisers, tourers,...

2007 Suzuki GSX-R1000 – Road Test Review

It must be hard for a company like Suzuki to improve what many consider to be the finest liter-class sportbike on the market. True...

2007 Suzuki Bandit 1250S – Road Test Review

When an existing motorcycle model is revamped, I hold my breath. Who will win in the corporate tug of war: The bean counters or...

2007 Yamaha FZ6 – Road Test Review

(this review of the 2007 Yamaha FZ6 was originally published in the July 2007 issue of Rider] Remember the days when bikes were inexpensive and...

2007 BMW R1200R vs. Ducati Monster S2R1000 | Comparison Review

If you've ever had the pleasure of riding in Europe, you may have become familiar with the national traits of certain brands of vehicles....

2007 Moto Guzzi Griso 1100 – Road Test Review

An experienced street rider will approach a motorcycle and immediately begin sizing it up as to type and affixing certain expectations to it. It's...

2007 BMW R1200S – Road Test Review

Prior to the dashing red-and-silver streak before you, BMW's twin-cylinder sportbike was the R1100S, introduced in 1999. It was a groundbreaker by virtue of...

2006 MV Agusta Brutale 910S – Road Test Review

Remember the gnarly scene in Pulp Fiction when John Travolta's character stabs Uma Thurman right through the breastbone and into the heart with a...

2006 Ducati Sport Classic GT1000 – Road Test Review

When Ducati unveiled its three retro Sport Classics at the Long Beach, California, motorcycle show in 2004, naturally its emphasis was on the two...

2006 Yamaha FZ1 – Road Test Review

A lot of water has passed under the proverbial bridge in the half decade since Yamaha's first-generation FZ1 was introduced, and the world is...

2006 Honda CBR1000RR – Road Test Review

It wouldn't be fair to test a world-class sportbike as if it were a touring machine, so I'm not going to do that. But...

2006 Kawasaki ZX-14 – Road Test Review

Kawasaki and Suzuki have been engaged in, shall we say, friendly fire for the past four years, battling it out for the title of...

2006 Moto Guzzi Breva V 1100 – Road Test Review

Motorcycle trivia buffs already know that the word breva refers to the southerly winds that blow over Lake Como-adjacent to Guzzi's historic Mandello del...

2006 Honda 599, Kawasaki Ninja 650R, Suzuki SV650S and Yamaha FZ6 – Comparison Review

Photography by Rich Cox/Slide Action Look at the middleweight motorcycle class and you'll find a bunch of very serious sportbikes, adventure tourers, dual-sports, cruisers‚ and...

2006 Hyosung GT650S – Road Test Review

One of the most remarkable economic turnarounds of the latter half of the 20th century saw the phrase "Made in Japan" transformed from a...

2006 Kawasaki ZZR600 – Road Test Review

It's a phenomenon of the sportbike category that as the high-end models become ever more racetrack oriented, their predecessors begin to seem a bit...

2006 Kawasaki Ninja 650R – Road Test Review

Pity the poor motorcycle designer who has to come up with an entry-level or beginner's motorcycle. Make it too big, powerful or heavy and...

2005 KTM 990 Super Duke Review | Road Test

There's something not quite serious about single-cylinder engines in road bikes. As one part of a manufacturer's broader portfolio they do satisfy that small...

2006 BMW K1200R – Road Test Review

photography by Kevin Wing I look at the K1200R and wonder if a development test rider crashed a K1200S, stripping off the bike's full fairing...

2005 BMW K1200S – Road Test Review

Story by Ken Freund, Photography by Kevin Wing Traditional, dyed-in-the-lederhosen BMW boxer afficionados still haven't gotten over the blasphemous use of an in-line four-cylinder engine...

2006 Buell Lightning Long XB12Ss – Road Test Review

When Erik Buell set out to build a 250 GP racebike-sized sportbike with a stump-pulling torquey V-twin, he wasn't kidding around. The latest generation...

2004 Ducati Monster M1000 – Road Test Review

Just about every engine that Ducati produces seems to find its way into the tried-and-true Monster series eventually-and that's a good thing! By coupling...

2005 BMW R1200RT ABS – Road Test Review

Photography by Rich Cox/Slide Action I rode one of those R1100RTs back to SoCal from the intro in Kalispell, Montana, in fact, with another journalist...

2002 Kawasaki ZZ-R1200 | Road Test Review

In the large-displacement sport-touring segment this year, our motorcycle cup runneth over. Off the top of my head, the lineup includes the Aprilia Futura,...

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