Sports Tourer

With the new Yamaha Fazer 800 arriving we dip into the secondhand market to sample the best and worst of the Fazer family…

We’ve ridden the VFR1200F a thousand miles on typical UK roads in typical UK weather. Snow, rain, freezing fog and temperatures of barely more than zero answer one question. How real-world-good is the new VFR?

Live out your RC30 fantasy on a budget

How do you like your big-mile kicks? We evaluate four different takes on the tourer From the Suzuki Hayabusa to the KTM 990SMT

Face it – automatic bikes don’t have a great reputation. Has Dual Clutch Technology changed all that? Shall we find out?

It's big, it's weird looking and it doesn't have any clothes on. Oh yes, and it's very, very fast. Are BMW about to take the naked bruiser class by storm?

Reviews and information on the new VFR1200F and the Dual Clutch Transmission (DCT) model

Just ridden the brand new £9,499 Triumph Sprint GT for an hour through the Scottish highlands and have just stopped at a petrol station to check the tyre pressure, all was as it should be.

Can Honda's new sports tourer do the distance?

Special excess: a claimed 197bhp

In this molly-coddled, nappy-wearing world Kawasaki stick out like a sore thumb. The Kawasaki marque has always been about power and speed and despite ever-increasing legislation they stick to their guns. Big Kawasaki guns. For this, they are to be saluted.

A race circuit seemed like a strange place to launch a 265kg bike with a 1545mm wheelbase but the spec sometimes only tells part of the story.

This is the Suzuki GSX 1250 FA – a fully-faired, wallet-friendly, four-cylinder sports tourer aimed at capturing a sizeable chunk of the UK’s 40-something market.

Since the original model was launched in 1998 the Fazer family has been a mainstay of Yamaha’s range, a model that many (actually 250,000 to date) took their first steps into ‘big’ bikes on and one whose popularity over the years has soared.

The GTR’s been waiting for a trip like this. Over two weeks at large in France, Ben Miller’s Kawasaki proves little less than awesome

If we bought motorbikes using our head alone, Buell would be out of business. Will the 1125CR help Buell onwards and upwards?

Despite being brilliant to ride, to many riders bikes are little more than an efficient form of transport.

Supreme top speed tourer that will impress with its performance and civility.

Massive improvement in both style and performance over outgoing model. A genuine contender for the VFR’s crown

1984. A great year for films, a seminal year for music, and the year Kawasaki stole Suzuki’s Katana 1100 thunder with their all-new watercooled GPZ900R. Overnight, superbikes had suddenly entered the computer age

The K1300S doesn’t need to cover as many bases as the R model to succeed in the market it’s intended for. Competition in the hypertourer league is limited to the Suzuki Hayabusa and the Kawasaki ZZR1400, both of which have a long line of evolution, sales success and loyal followers.

Ben Miller sends some time with the GTR1400 and finds ten reasons to love and hate it