Motorcycle Ratings and Reviews
Years Manufactured: 2007-’08 MSRP new: $13,998 (’07); $14,398 (’08); $15,598 (’08 Super Duke R) Blue Book retail value: $7720 (’07); $8500 (’08) $10,315 (’08 R) Basic specs: An exceptionally sporty naked bike powered by a 1000cc, 75-degree V-Twin that bangs out 106 horsepower and 68 foot-pounds of torque. The counterbalanced engine hangs in a steel-trellis [...]
Photography by Brian Blades Deep inside, we all know we are not Troy Bayliss. Except for Troy, of course… So the idea of a nearly race-ready streetbike like the Ducati 1098 can be interpreted as a funny choice for us mere mortals. Actually, it’s not funny at all, just fun, even in real life. Our [...]
Photography by Brian Blades First impressions are important. That might explain why our long-term TnT has only racked up a little more than 1300 miles since our last up-date this past September. Right after its road test in October of 2007, the 1130 began camping out on our workstand because of one problem or another. [...]
The TnT and the CW staff seem to be star-crossed. Every time it’s been operational, we’ve been so busy with other bikes that we’ve had little time to ride it. And when we have had opportunities to ride it, it’s been out of service, propped up on our workstand for repairs or the installation of [...]
Photography By Brian Blades Adding the KTM 990 Super Duke to our long-term fleet has put the Austrian-built V-Twin’s reliability to the test. With several staff members piling on miles, we’ve found the bike to be a solid performer with only a minor engine oil leak to report to date. That leak went unnoticed until [...]
With all the electronics and zero-maintenance this-and-that on bikes these days, it is sometimes easy to think that the old-style “tune-up” simply isn’t relevant. Not so! When we took in our 1098 for its 7500-mile service, we figured they’d hit the high points and we’d get the bike back running just how it had before. [...]
Cycle World reader Steve Solberg won the Roland Sands Design Project ConqueRR bike in a final drawing of over 16,000 entries. Solberg purchased his ticket in January on the Ride For Kids website. The raffle was organized by Cycle World magazine and Ride for Kids, and the money raised will benefit the Pediatric Brain Tumor [...]
Electricity isn’t just for powering your iPod anymore. A quick scan of the electric-powered-vehicle landscape reveals everything from battery-powered golf carts ferrying elder Americans around gated communities to the “Killacycle,” an electric dragbike that can go from 0-60 mph in under a second. Speed and power aren’t the electric vehicle’s Achilles heel anymore; affordability and [...]
Photography by Mike Doran, D&W Images Roadracing legend Kevin Schwantz, custom-bike builder Roland Sands, Kawasaki roadracer Elena Meyers and I got to take some laps on the four different motocross-based 450 Super Singles for the official introduction of the racebikes during the lunch break at the closing round of the 2007 AMA Superbike series at [...]
It’s here and it could be yours! Project ConqueRR, a custom 2007 Honda CBR1000RR, was unveiled at the opening Cycle World International Motorcycle Show in Phoenix, Arizona. ConqueRR creator Roland Sands, was joined by Ride for Kids National Director Kyle Clack and 11-year-old brain-tumor survivor Shelby and her parents for the world debut of this [...]
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