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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

Easy going and ticks all the boxes for Commuters and inexperienced riders, but if you've been around bikes for a bit it's charms pall quickly.

The world launch review of the Kawasaki ER6F, a Kawasaki budget middleweight naked aimed squarely at the SV650 and Honda Hornet

Launch report written by freelance journo Bertie Simmonds

A somewhat disappointing use of the old Fireblade motor in a naked chassis that would benefit from more urgent power delivery

As a back to basics commuter the CBF is a winner

Whitham takes us by the hand and leads us through the streets of Huddersfield. Four battered middleweights, a bag of chips and a Fanta, please

The updates to the Fazer make perfect sense in this naked guise. It has the X-factor that the faired Fazer is missing and is really good fun to ride, as well as being a top commuter

Welcome addition from Aprilia to the big boy's supermoto club

The Yamaha YBR 125 is Yamaha's top-seller and gets good reviews from its owners

Cheap transport

Cheap is all very well, but quality counts for a lot

The favoured stunter of old gains an edge of practicality with its weather protection

Warren Pole gives the Suzuki SV1000 a good threashing and then a good review. That's what you're after, isn't it?

A do anything bike in the classic Honda mould. Handles, goes, stops. Top fun

Despite the Tuscany-Tibet name, Aprilia says you are allowed to do Reading-Watford and several other routes too on its new Pegaso. So we found out whether the bike's a dirt monster or one for the roads

Take a proven Suzuki engine, pop it in an unadventurous naked style frame and push it out the door. Short of remarkable

Relatively new to the market, the smallest Sachs does have a lot to commend it, but a test ride is recommended

An underwhelming experience that could have offered much more

Anyone remember Kawasaki's ill-fated ZR-7, which got panned from day one and never really recovered? The half faired ZR-7S, which appeared a year later in 2001 also came in for some stick.

A good, no frills honest learner machine

Tuneable 1200 motor in a fine handling chassis makes the most of the torque