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The mid ‘70s was a time of contradiction and mayhem: Giant 2-strokes despite the fuel crisis, legends based on notoriety, little or no consideration for health and safety and the emphasis based purely on thrills. Happy days...

BMW have launched two new streetbikes for 2009, the twin-cylinder F800 and the 150bhp K1300R. Is all that extra power, weight and expense at all justifiable?

HONDA HAVE just released this image of their new CBF125.

I’d expect to make a decent saving over those more established rivals before parting with my cash, but the Comet is worth a look

Welcome to a world of high tea, cucumber sandwiches, and screaming petrol engines as the naked middleweights tear into...

Can an ageing, bum basic £5299 all rounder really offer the best of all worlds against a raft of higher priced, specialist competition? Read on to see where the smart money lies

Aprilia's Pegaso is re-born for a new generation of style-conscious funky stunters, and it's not half bad for the rest of us, either. The road-ready supermoto just got practical

We put seven of the best naked middleweights through our toughest test ever...

Two of the hardiest perennials in the middleweight category go head to head

Old faithful returns with a new jacket, starched braces and a spanking new motor

Honda's top-selling naked middleweight gets a top-to-toe revamp, sharp new looks and the world's ugliest exhaust collector box

Suzuki's trusty Bandit has swollen in capacity for 2005, but is this enough to put the planet's longest-serving middleweight back in the frame?

Just a Bandit with a full fairing? Jon Bentman flies to France and discovers the new GSX650F is a bike that’s much greater than the sum of its parts

BMW finally go for the jugular with their most focused sportsbike ever. It looks stunning and sounds glorious, but does it have any teeth?

Naked bikes and rude place names. Is there no level to which the TWO test team won't stoop to for a cheap laugh? Apparently not.

Flicking the ignition on the impossibly trick 2D digital display glows into life while an array of LED lights illuminate the inside of the cowling. This is race track kudos on a grand scale. “Which dash have you got?” “Oh this?

Simon calms down with the big Bandit

The Suzuki is pulling an act. Like the harmless Milk snake of the Canadian bush which looks like a lethal coral snake, thus scaring away potential predators, so the GSX650F is pretending for all the world that it’s a slightly dumpy GSX-R. And it jolly nearly gets away with it.

Hogan spends 12 months with the GSR600