Bike Tests

Take a fine bike like the Triumph Speed Triple, throw some Öhlins, Brembos and carbon fibre at it and unless you make a horrible mistake, you’re going to create a great bike. But is it a great value bike?

The claims are unequivocal: more power and harder acceleration than any other production bike, and the press launch venue was Europe’s fastest vehicle proving ground. Has Kawasaki forgotten the ZZR1400 is a road bike?

If you like to suffer for your style, you could do worse than consider Harley-Davidson’s new 2011 Blackline.

The difference between Chinese and Taiwanese-built motorcycles amounts to a great deal more than the politics of the two countries.

After you’ve had a ride on the new Kawasaki ER-6n you understand why the factory thoroughly renewed the bike for 2012.

One bike that’s slipped through my testing net is Triumph’s consistently popular Tiger 1050.

Kawasaki is the first company to respond to the question: can a four-cylinder engine work in an adventure bike?

Honda has been busy looking after its lucrative far-eastern markets and exploring western utility ones with the DN-01 and NC700X.