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25 October 2024
Yamaha finally confirms new R9 for 2025
Yamaha has long drawn on its extensive racing experience - and success - on both track and road to develop an enviable range of supersports bikes.
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This is once more evident in the new and long awaited R9, an impressively specified, class topping machine.
It's set to hit showrooms for the 2025 season. Start salivating now. -
17 October 2024
800 Adventure a jolly good Kove
Chinese bikes haven't always enjoyed the best reputation. But that was then.
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Now there's a newish brand on the block, the seven-year old Kove. And, in the 800 Adventure, the company has really hit the spot reports Paul Browne. -
10 October 2024
New Vitpilen 801 piles on tech and style
Husqvarna has launched the hotly anticipated Vitpilen 801, a road-friendly sibling to the company's Svartpilen scrambler.
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Whilst the two bikes share much mechanically, the new model is very much purposed for tackling tarmac.
The tech is impressive, the styling clean, with a distinctive front lamp to which Paul Browne has taken a particular fancy. -
04 October 2024
Honda refreshes NT1100 for 2025
Honda has made something of a name for itself in the touring motorcycle market.
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Sadly, it also made a not very good name for a bike that deserved better.
Amends have since been made, courtesy of the NT1100, a much admired tourer which the Japanese biking behemoth is set to refresh for 2025. -
27 September 2024
New Speed Twin 1200, classic look
This week Paul Browne is looking for an uncomplicated biking life.
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Simplicity is, after all, a virtue.
But he still wants to ride in style, to bask in classic glory.
He thinks a bike that fits the bill is just around the corner....