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Category: Road Tests

Road Test: Triumph Trident T160

4th November 2014 Classic Bike Hub UK Road Tests

Triumph Trident T160 As with most engines from BSA and Triumph, the triples were evolutionary rather than revolutionary, largely because of conservative management. Development started in 1963 as a Doug Hele design that was in

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Road Test: Benelli 650

24th September 2014 Web Editor Road Tests

The Benelli concern has a long and illustrious history, but like many Italian companies it has courted financial disaster several times, and frequently only survived by the skin of its teeth. Founded in 1911 in

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Road Test: Bimota SB2

18th August 2014 Classic Bike Hub UK Road Tests

Bimota SB2 Bimota, the small Italian manufacturer that’s been through more than its share of financial problems in recent years, developed a huge reputation in the 1970s and 80s as the source of not just

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Road Test: Suzuki GS1000

19th June 2014 Classic Bike Hub UK Road Tests

Suzuki GS1000E Launched in 1978, the GS1000 looked as though it had been developed from the previous year’s GS750, which cynics suggested had been directly developed from the Kawasaki 900. Some of this may be

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Road Test: Kawasaki Z1300

17th March 2014 Classic Bike Hub UK Road Tests

Kawasaki Z1300 The colossal six cylinder, watercooled Z1300 came along just a year after Honda’s own ‘six’, the CBX. That had been awesome enough but the Zed boasted 15 more horses at 120 bhp! Fierce

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Road Test: Yamaha XJ900

3rd March 2014 Classic Bike Hub UK Road Tests

Yamaha XJ900 Launched in April 1983 at Yamaha’s test track in Japan alongside the YPVS RD350LC two-stroke twin, the XJ900 offered a more wieldy alternative to the bulk of the XS1100 four of five years

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Road Test: Kawasaki GPZ600R

25th February 2014 Classic Bike Hub UK Road Tests

Iconic Kawasaki GPZ600R Everything was going for Kawasaki’s GPz600R when it was launched at the end of 1984. The factory was basking in the glory that it had created with the GPz900R, a machine that

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Road Test: Suzuki GSX-R750 v RG500

18th February 2014 Classic Bike Hub UK Road Tests

Suzuki RG500 (left) and GSX-R 750 Imagine, if you will, two design teams at Suzuki working in complete isolation. Each has been tasked with designing and building the best road-going motorcycle they possibly can. Both

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Road Test: Honda VF400F/VF500F

16th December 2013 Classic Bike Hub UK Road Tests

Honda VF500F11 Jaundiced contributors to the pocket-sized bike mags moan about 25-year-old Honda fours as if they’re singing from the same hymn sheet: flaky ignition, self-destructing camshafts and cam-chain adjusters and self-seizing brake calipers. No

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Road Test: Suzuki GT380

28th November 2013 Classic Bike Hub UK Road Tests

Suzuki GT380 classic motorcycle Kawasaki and Yamaha’s contribution to global pollution levels is well known but it’s worth remembering that Suzuki was actually the last of the Japanese giants to abandon the two stroke. Honda

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