Motorcycle First Ride Reviews

Yamaha aim to reinvent its best selling Fazer brand with a bigger capacity engine and whole new ethos. Will it help banish memories of the disappointing FZ6 range?

It may only look like a small update, but there’s a lot more under the skin of the new ZX-6R. With a new look comes a more refined attitude

The budget twin designed to look like a traditional Japanese theatre mask gets a useful update and manages to be more than the sum of its parts

Three years after its launch Triumph has decided the time is right to give its Daytona 675 a few tweaks

One of motorcycling’s few truly great names is back. Again. And this time it’s attached to a cruiser aimed squarely at Harley-Davidson. Slickly engineered it may be, but she’s no wild one

Two strokes are dead, live with it. We try on the new 125 four-banger from bijou biking kings Derbi

Subtle just got a whole lot cooler as the already great looking Griso gets an overhaul

BMW continue their rapid expansion with the F800R. With a specification to rival Triumph’s mighty Street Triple, the twin-cylinder BM looks set to lead from the front

Three years and nearly £20 million in the making, Aprilia’s all-new V4 superbike is a Herculean effort for a firm that five years ago was in dire financial straits. It’s also quite brilliant...

Beautiful retro looks coupled with characterful engine layout, could this be the ultimate Italian pose?

It’s taken Austrian dirt bike peddlers KTM a decade, but the orange House of Madness has finally produced a sensible motorbike. Except it isn’t, not really…

The new 1300GT is BMW doing what they do best; a fast, comfortable mile-muncher

If you thought the S4RS was barking, then think again. Ducati’s latest machine goes right back to streetfighting basics…

With brutal styling, real grunt and some trick design touches, the new Muscle is without a doubt the hardest V-Rod yet

Certainly the prettiest and definitely the fastest supermoto yet made, KTM’s new R-model is wonderfully wayward and has a price to match

No traction control, no fancy cranks and no need - the boss is back. Niall Mackenzie falls for Suzuki's new big GSX-R

Surely one of the most technically advanced motorcycles on the market, the K1300R is a bike that does its best to do everything, brilliantly. And, quite honestly, pretty much nails it...

KTM’s mighty Adventure gets the R treatment, creating the most hardcore adventure bike on the market. But when the standard version’s so damn good, is the R an essential overlander or a cynical marketing exercise?

Niall Mackenzie goes walkabout with a pair of Yamaha’s budget bikes in the Australian outback. Disappointingly, Jenny Agutter is nowhere to be seen.

BMW is taking the fight to the Japanese hypertouring behemoths. The K1300S brings a touch of European class to the party

KTM’s first superbike hit the mark last year with a blend of awesome performance and comfort. Now the R is upon us, is the RC8 a match for Ducati’s mighty 1198?

Taking up where the popular SV650 left off, the new for 2009 Gladius has a lot to live up to. Is it as sharp as the Roman sword it takes its name from?

The Yamaha R1 promises to be a genuine breakthrough, making use of a crossplane crankshaft developed in MotoGP to deliver smooth, even power. Will this radical new technology put the R1 ahead of Honda’s awesome current-generation Fireblade?

Niall brushes elbows with Troy Bayliss at the launch of Ducati’s new big-bore superbike. It’s a monster machine that will put hairs on the inside of your eyelids, let alone your chest...