If a passing stranger informed you that this time next week you could be sliding a motorcycle round corners like Nicky Hayden in the off season, you’d write him off as a dangerous lunatic. Well, I am that lunatic. Because I am telling you, here and now, that anyone can learn the basics of this ultra-cool skill within about ten ...
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- 03 February 2013
Fancy a fun day out? We’re looking to recruit six newly-qualified or learner riders to act as guinea pigs for a new kind of bike training. Over the past 16 years, Australian-based training and safety expert Rob Smith has developed a datalogging system which can give riders a mark out of ten for their ability to brake, corner and swerve. ...
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- 25 August 2009
BLH RS7 gloves, £50 Tester: Rupert Paul Miles covered/time: 1500/2 months What’s good? In that hot spell in June, what you really needed were short, cool gloves. I for one was glad to take a hit on protection to stay cool and avoid the usual two-minute wrist-clamping Velcro palaver. If we ever see the sun again, I’ll get them back ...
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- 12 August 2009
Is the UK finally ready to accept ABS on sportsbikes? Traditionally all manufacturers except BMW have shied away from fitting the technology to their supersports models. Early this year even Honda were unsure of how their new electronically controlled system would go down on the CBR600RR and CBR1000RR Fireblade. But the system is so effective it won over road riders ...
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- 25 March 2009
