Road Bikes - Reviews
How does a 24-year-old engine and chassis still take the honours as Australia's most popular motorcycle? Kawasaki's long-standing EX250 engine began life in the GP-Z250 way back in 1986. Since then, it has been released in various guises from the GPX250, the ZZ-R250 and, today, the Ninja 250R.
Stunning retro beauty demands emotional response It looks the absolute business with its twin remote-reservoir rear shocks, white-faced clocks, tubular swingarm and masses of gaps where you can see right through the bike and out the other side.
We find out how this big-bore favourite has stood the test of time What better way to sample the build quality of a motorcycle than grab a thoroughly abused test bike and take it on a 1500km ride? That's what I did recently with Honda Australia's CBR1100XX Super Blackbird 'stealth' bike, a 2004 model which has spent the majority of its tortured life blasting down Victorian drag strips.
Suzuki GSF1250 Bandit is $599 cheaper than the 12-year-old original There is no other model on the local market that offers as much motorcycle for the bucks as Suzuki's GSF1250 Bandit. End of story. When I sampled the half-faired all-new Suzuki GSF1250S Bandit in 2007 I declared then that at $11,990 it represented amazing value for a big-bore motorcycle. On the bang for your bucks scale, it couldn't be beaten.
As relaxing and fun as a PO cruise ship, but steers a lot better. It weighs six times what I do and is one and a half times my length. The Yamaha XV1900AS Roadliner is aptly named. It is enormous.
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