The 100 bikes to ride before you die, brought to you by the guys at MCN's sister title, Performance Bikes. It stunned the senses... In the 1990s the FireBlade was the sportsbike to have. Fast, agile and good-looking, it trumped Yamaha’s underpowered 1996 Thunderace (a quick-fix amalgamation of an FZR1000 engine and a YZF750 frame), and with regular updates had ...
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- 19 November 2008
The 100 bikes to ride before you die, brought to you by the guys at MCN's sister title, Performance Bikes. If it weren’t for this bike… Forget the alloy-framed, oil-cooled 1985 model or the GSX-R’s 1992-1995 wilderness years, this is the forefather of every modern Suzuki sportsbike. For Suzuki, the 1996 bike is year zero. Everything you see on a ...
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- 12 November 2008
The 100 bikes to ride before you die, brought to you by the guys at MCN's sister title, Performance Bikes. The missing link between 916 and 1098... It’s easy to think of this bike as being the preserve of London luvvies. While the rest of us live in the sideways clamping of the credit crunch, the rich buy fast and slightly ...
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- 05 November 2008
The 100 bikes to ride before you die, brought to you by the guys at MCN's sister title, Performance Bikes. More power, more torque, less weight, more useable. What’s not to like? In the ever-increasing search for big horsepower, low-down usability is often the expendable casualty. Take the 2008 ZX-10R for instance – a frantic top end rush, perfect for ...
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- 28 October 2008
The 100 bikes to ride before you die, brought to you by the guys at MCN's sister title, Performance Bikes. Get the next 3 issues of PB for £3 when you subscribe before November 5th It seemed Honda was saying, ‘Sorry about the Firestorm’. My dad once said to me, ‘Son, Honda make the best engines in the world.’ I’m ...
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- 15 October 2008
