First Ride
First Ride
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Launch Ride: Harley Street Rod
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Hardcore Harley devotees best look away now. Flag-waving Trump supporters probably won’t be impressed either, but for many riders – particularly those a little younger – be they open-minded new bikers, or indeed anyone looking for their first Harley, this could well be a game-changer. Words: John Milbank, editor of Motorcycle Sport & Leisure…
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Video: FIRST ride of the Triumph Street Triple 765 – world launch report
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Here’s our in-helmet video review of the 2017 Triumph Street Triple 765. We’ve made it in one-hit, no editing, so that you can see what we really think of this bike during the first chunk of miles on the new Hinckley metal. Prices Street Triple S – £8000 – available April Street Triple…
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Launch ride: 2017 Honda CBR1000RR / SP
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WORDS: John Milbank, Editor Motorcycle Sport & Leisure magazine PHOTOGRAPHY: Zep Gori, Francesc Montero, Felix Romero How hard could it be? Don’t lean over too far and don’t run on; the electronics will take care of the rest, surely? APS, ABS, HESD, TBW, HSTC… so many acronyms (I counted 14) that there must be enough…
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Yamaha MT-07 Tracer 700: World Launch report – first ride incoming
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Yamaha MT-07 Tracer 700: World Launch report – first ride incoming. We’re about to get underway with the world launch, first ride on the Yamaha Tracer 700. Our editor, TC, is out in Italy to try the bike out for the first time. The new Tracer 700 is based around the MT-07’s 75bhp engine, comes…
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Sam Lowes interview: ‘After Assen it’s my first ride on the Aprilia MotoGP bike!’
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Sam Lowes interview: ‘After Assen it’s my first ride on the Aprilia MotoGP bike!’ Sam Lowes has been doing the PR-bit with the powers-that-be at MotoGP and has given this interview to them about his first upcoming official test on the Aprilia RS-GP MotoGP machine that he will be riding in 2017. It makes for…
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Yamaha XSR900 world launch review
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For Mikko’s video review of the Yamaha XSR900, click here. Price: Matt grey and rock slate £7,849 / 60th Anniversary colour scheme £ 7,999 Engine: 847cc, three-cylinder, liquid-cooled, four-stroke, DOHC, four-valve Power: 113bhp at 10,000rpm Torque: 87.5Nm at 8,500rpm Tested by: Mikko Nieminen Whether you’re a fan or not, there’s no escaping the fact that…
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Harley-Davidson Street 750 first ride review
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The Harley-Davidson Street 750 is the latest addition to the American firm’s Dark Custom range, which was launched in the US back in 2008. But it’s also the key to what Harley-Davidson is calling its rebirth during a two-day launch in Barcelona. “Don’t think black,” we were told in the presentation: “Think blank.” Dark Custom is…
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Midual Type 1 review | World first ride
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Midual Type 1 €140,000 | 1036cc | 4-stroke flat-twin | 107bhp @ 7800rpm | 72.3lb-ft @ 6000rpm Tested by: Alan Cathcart Photos: Kel Edge It’s increasingly difficult to dream up any new way of building a four-stroke motorcycle engine – with Honda’s MotoGP world title-winning V5 RC211V being the last notable such example over a decade ago – but…
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Royal Enfield Continental GT First ride and review
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Lying flat on the tank of this retro-styled bike, throttle held at the stop and with the roar of 44 identical red machines around me, I can’t stop grinning, but despite this being a modern bike, it’s the sixties that put me here. In 1962, Roger Boss (an experienced development tester and then Sales Manager…
