Motorcycle Ratings and Reviews
In a bit of a stunner, American Honda announced that motorcycle production at its plant in Marysville, Ohio, will cease in 2009. That production, currently of all GL1800 Gold Wing and VTX cruiser models, will move to a “newly expanded and state-of-the-art factory in Kumamoto, Japan.” At the same time, Kumamoto will also take over [...]
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The sun is peeking through the clouds ’round the globe, warming MotoGP circuits enough for the teams to get out and test their new bikes and tires. What will be the hot setup? Who will take the crown this year?We don’t know, either, but to answer some of our questions, the Team Repsol Honda PR [...]
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The middleweight wars are once again raging. Honda is on top with its CBR600RR, having edged out the revamped Yamaha YFZ-R6 in our recent 2×2 comparo. But now Suzuki charges into the fray, guns blazing, with a heavily revised GSX-R600. The new bike’s features address the shortcomings of the 2007 model. It gets a revised [...]
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To build a solid minibike racer out of a Kawasaki KLX110 or Honda CRF50F, you’d have to drop some serious coin on aftermarket metal. Or you could pick up (literally!) a Falcon ZRF 138 Pro. It’s one of many Chinese-built pit racers now on the market, but the Falcon uses a lot of the fancy [...]
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On February 22, Aprilia unveiled its new RSV 4 “Race Machine” at the Piaggio Group Covention in Milan. The new bike will be raced in World Superbike in 2009. The machine’s 65-degree V-Four powerplant, which was seen at the 2006 Milan Show, displaces 1000cc and should be good for around 200 hp, making it theoretically [...]
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Last year we showed you something that could rejuvenate roadracing on the national level: a proposed cup series that uses converted motocross Thumpers like the Suzuki RM-Z450 and Yamaha YZF450R. The bikes, demonstrated at Laguna Seca Raceway last fall, must have attracted attention in the HRC raceworks at the Honda factory.In early February, Honda announced [...]
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I’m writing you from Durban, South Africa, where I just spent the day on the BMW F800GS, the newest in the German company’s line of parallel Twins. Last year we rode the F800S and ST and wondered when Munich was going to shove the torquey powerplant into a GS model. They did it just one [...]
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Okay, so they aren’t real choppers, bikes with mile-long forks, teacup-sized gas tanks, armpit-exposing apehanger bars and bruising-to-the-bone rigid rear ends. But Harley’s new Rocker and Yamaha’s equally new Star Raider S travel quite a long way down that low-riding, raked-out road. The big difference is that while honest-to-Jesse-James choppers usually ride like a log [...]
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