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.
Green Meanie. It may only carry new graphics for 2008, but the ZX-6R is still a formidable weapon on the road. It may be basically unchanged from last year’s model, but the 2008 Kawasaki ZX-6R super sport bike was yet another completely new ride for me on the road. Bold new graphics aren’t the most exciting updates for a new year, but considering the fact that the 07 Kawasaki middleweight was all new, we can look past that for now.
I'm an individual. It's all about the noise. Oh, and the looks. And the fact it's a genuinely different motorcycle. Come to think of it, there are a lot of things about
the Griso that are unique and appealing...
FAT of the land. You're looking at Australia's second most popular motorcycle. Harley's Fat Boy bike more than doubled its sales year on year to September to 722 units...
Cut Price Slither. The Arquin motorcycle is the newest Chinese motorcycle to grace
Australian shores and is working very hard to pry itself away from the stigma attached to Chinese-made motorcycle bikes...
