Motorcycle Ratings and Reviews
Wow, what a year it’s been, huh?! New repli-racers, new standards, new cruisers, new touring bikes, new middleweights, new sport-tourers, new musclebikes, new dirtbikes, new scooters. From expensive exotics to campground runabouts, we have been treated to an amazing array of machinery. And mark 2008 as the year electronics took a big step forward. We [...]
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“You want to do what?” That’s the response I got from otherCycle Worldeditors when I told them I was going to pick up a Honda Gold Wing at the Honda Hoot in Knoxville, Tennessee, and ride it 2500 miles back to the CW compound in three days. They thought I was meshugga, but I’ve never [...]
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Over the years, people have nicknamed the CBR1000F Hurricane “the refrigerator” because of the ugly rounded bodywork that covers everything. The Hurricane for which I had traded a perfectly good car was a basket case. At first, I just wanted to strip it down and build a cheap streetfighter, but after removing all the bodywork [...]
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An unexpected email from Europe requesting my immediate presence, a quick phone call to the Boss, who says, “Punch the button,” and I was off to Nevers, France, to ride Ten Kate Honda’s 2007 World Championship-winning CBR1000RR Superbike and CBR600RR Supersport racebikes. It started back in August of last year. I wrote a blog entry [...]
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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 [...]
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Cards on the table, I’m not much of a cruiser guy, so the Honda Rebel, as cute a little ¾-scale chopperette as you’ll find, is not something I’d usually choose to be seen on. The standard-style Nighthawk 250 (same engine) would be more like it, but Honda says it gets outsold 10 to 1 by [...]
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In real life, reducing spending on fuel is a lot like the quip about the weather: Everybody talks about it, but nobody does anything. Witness Honda’s car branch cranking out hybrid economy cars along with a new line of trucks and SUVs, which are still selling by the way, so much for a revolution brought [...]
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Honda was tired. Tired of losing in Superbike racing. Tired of finishing as an also-ran in bike-mag Open-class comparisons. Tired of having its CBR1000RR described as a “nice” motorcycle in a class of ferocious, pavement-ripping literbikes. So Big Red shifted its R&D department into high gear and performed major surgery on its flagship performance bike. [...]
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Honda is no longer the tower of power of past years. Or is it? What we know: The factory Repsol-backed RC212Vs of 2006 World Champion Nicky Hayden and 2007 series runner-up Dani Pedrosa will not start the 2008 MotoGP season under the lights at Qatar with the hoped-for pneumatic-valve V-Four. Rather, power will continue to [...]
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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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