Motorcycle Ratings and Reviews
American Honda has released details on its 2013 CBR600RR and CBR600RR C-ABS sportbike models. The standard and combined-anti-lock-brake versions have each received a short, yet seemingly significant list of updates aimed at improved performance for track and back road riding. New MotoGP-inspired bodywork is claimed to reduce aerodynamic drag over the previous model by 6.5 [...]
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Over the past 25 years, 600cc, liquid-cooled, inline-Four supersport bikes have dominated the mid-displacement street category in Cycle World’s Annual Ten Best Bikes awards. Prior to our selecting the Ducati 848 Streetfighter this year, the only other departures from the norm have been a V-Twin Honda Hawk GT taking the honors in 1988 and the [...]
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My first order of business upon receiving a 2013 Ninja 300 testbike involved rolling the bike onto Cycle World’s Dynojet dynamometer to measure the ponies corralled in Kawasaki’s Shetland-size sportbike. To better show the performance gains of the new liquid-cooled, 296cc parallel-Twin, we’ve laid dyno graphs of a 2011 Kawasaki Ninja 250R and 2011 Honda [...]
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Kawasaki picked a prime location for a revved-up and ready-to-ride motopress to get its first hands-on assessment of the 2013 Ninja 300: Skaggs Springs Road. This flowing ribbon of blacktop flanking Lake Sonoma provides a scenic route through the coastal mountains between U.S. 101 and Pacific Coast Highway north of San Francisco. It’s also quite [...]
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Back between 2003 to 2006, Kawasaki produced a 636cc ZX-6R that, while not legal for AMA 600 Supersport roadracing competition, proved very popular among street riders due to its robust low-end and midrange power. Now, that same concept is back with a vengeance in the form of the 2013 ZX-6R. While this middleweight sportbike has [...]
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Just in! Read Don Canet’s First Ride report. Well, the gig is finally up: The new 2013 Ninja 300, which debuted in Europe earlier this month, is a confirmed addition to Kawasaki’s stateside model lineup. We will not have to wait long to get our first ride aboard the Ninja 300, as I will be [...]
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Celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Attack family of performance radial tires, Bavarian tire-maker Continental treated Cycle World to two days of testing its latest products on and around the Contidrom proving grounds near Hannover, Germany. New additions to the lineup headed stateside include the trackday/street-focused ContiSportAttack 2 (OEM fitment on the 2012 BMW S1000RR) [...]
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Located near the southern shore of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, Miller Motorsports Park is one of America’s premier roadrace venues. MMP offers multiple course configurations ranging from a lengthy, 4.5-mile Full Course to a 3.08-mile Perimeter Course or, when spit in half, comprises two distinctly different 2.2-mile circuits, aptly named the East Course and West [...]
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It’s best to have an interesting adventure destination in the bag when your daily ride is the likes of the Suzuki V-Strom 650 Adventure. Given the Strom’s go-anywhere appearance, the probability of being approached by curious types wanting to hear about exotic, distant journeys is highly probable. There are times when the facts can spoil [...]
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There is no shortfall of compelling qualities in the sportbike category, but the Austrian-built KTM RC8 R possesses a concentration of characteristics that hit your senses with all the force of an avalanche. Foremost is the fact that this purebred superbike is built by a company largely perceived as a dirtbike manufacturer, but there is [...]
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