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BMW’s on a bit of a roll at the moment The German bike firm is expanding its range of road bikes, and many of them are selling well

Anyone offended by what might well seem like sycophantic levels of praise, should stop reading now Such is my sheer delight in both testing and then raving about Triumph’s Speed Triple R, my writings might actually move some to think I’d taken a bung from the British firm’s management

The Monster is one of Ducati’s most crucial bikes It’s a bread and butter model which helped the Italian company stave off financial disaster on a number of occasions

STILL the biggest-engined mass-produced motorcycle on the market, the Rocket 111 now comes in three guises Joining the standard and Classic versions is this one, the Touring

KTM’s Adventure first hit the mud and streets in its 950 guise back in 2003 Refined with fuel-injection and enlarged to ‘990’ in 2006, it was joined by an S model aimed at those who fancied doing more miles on the loose brown stuff

If there was ever a bike that’s easy to misunderstand it’s the latest GSX-R1000 It’s specification sheet and, perhaps more importantly its ‘GSX-R’ name tag, give the impression of a beast that only experts should apply for

I told her I’d only be an hour When I returned home the clock hands pointed to a time much, much later

THE Ducati brand name alone conjures up many positive emotions But riding the famous Italian firm’s new 1198S superbike moves you in a way that very few other production motorcycles can even hope to match