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Longterm BMWR1150R

01 October 2001

Longterm BMWR1150R

A LOT of you guys with sports bikes are going to wince or have a quiet chuckle when I say this, but here goes anyway – panniers kick arse. Yeah, that’s right. They rock. And I’m not talking about the...

Honda reveals new 230 and 150 four-strokes

01 October 2001

Honda reveals new 230 and 150 four-strokes

JUST weeks after revealing the 2002 CRF450 four-stroke moto cross contender, Honda has revealed not one but two more four-stroke off-road machines. In 2003 Honda’s CRF230 and 150 will be launched to...

Injured Hislop concedes title to Reynolds

01 October 2001

Injured Hislop concedes title to Reynolds

Updated at 7.15pm, Monday, with comment from John Reynolds and Rockingham circuit STEVE HISLOP has admitted his season is over as a result of the injuries he sustained after crashing at Rockingham on...

2002 TT will go ahead

01 October 2001

2002 TT will go ahead

News is breaking that the Isle of Man TT will definitely go ahead next year. The news follows rumours that the TT looked like being called off for a second year running because Foot and Mouth is still...

You’ve helped set yet more new records

01 October 2001

Visits to motorcyclenews.com continue to soar and thanks to your support we’ve managed to smash yet another set of monthly records. In September we registered 5.2 million page impressions, up 700,000 on the previous month to a new monthly record. If you like your measurements in hits, that’s about 50 million of them. The all-important number of unique users has also leaped to a new monthly record.

Best value bikes for under £5000

01 October 2001

Best value bikes for under £5000

SOME things can seem more expensive than they really are. Take Ferrero Rocher – nice chocolates that are divvied up at ambassadorial dinner parties, but come Christmas they stack them to the ceiling...

Aprilia Falco

01 October 2001

Aprilia Falco

Year: 2000 (W). Mileage: 5425. Price: £4399 The Falco is something a little different. It’s a kind of sports-tourer, but it definitely errs more on the sports side, as a big V-twin is not the ideal...

Terblanche on the MultiStrada part two

01 October 2001

Terblanche on the MultiStrada part two

Choose from the Quicktime (MOV) or Real Player (RM) downloads, right, to watch the second part of our exclusive interview with Pierre Terblanche.

Suzuki TL1000R

01 October 2001

Suzuki TL1000R

Year: 2000 (W). Mileage: 7958. Price: £4999 The TL1000R isn’t one of the best-selling bikes in Britain, so getting the example you want might take a little more time and patience. But that scarcity is...

Triumph to roll out 2200cc cruiser and Blackbird rival

01 October 2001

Triumph’s much-anticipated super cruiser will have a world-beating 2.2 litre capacity, but it won’t be here until 2003. It’s the latest move in a capacity race among cruiser makers, currently led by Honda’s 1800cc VTX. Triumph is close to completing development of its 2200cc machine. And it will be a triple. It will also be the only triple on sale with the crankshaft in-line with the frame. Indian...

TDM video interview part one

01 October 2001

TDM video interview part one

Choose from the Real Player (RM) or Quicktime (MOV) video downloads to watch part one of our interview with the TDM900 design team.

Italians take a shine to the Bonnie

01 October 2001

Italians take a shine to the Bonnie

Italian firm Roadracing, which specialises in beautifully crafted aluminium panels, has created a set of extras to turn Triumph’s Bonneville into something that to attract attention wherever it...

The bike you voted Worst-Looking of 2002

01 October 2001

The bike you voted Worst-Looking of 2002

Call it brave, call it challenging, call it controversial…but more often than not motorcyclenews.com users simply call it ugly… Ducati’s MultiStrada has been voted the Worst-Looking Bike of 2002 in a...

New road rules could spoil the TT party

01 October 2001

New road rules could spoil the TT party

The TT is on for 2002… but not quite as we knew it. Expect mobile GATSOs to litter rural roads and speeding offences committed on the island to appear as endorsements on your mainland licence. And, if...

Is police FJR on your tail?

01 October 2001

Is police FJR on your tail?

If you get followed by a dark blue Yamaha FJR1300 in Devon or Cornwall, check it doesn’t have a big aerial and the rider isn’t wearing a white flip-up lid. The local police have taken delivery of one...

TDM video interview part two

01 October 2001

TDM video interview part two

Choose from Real Player (RM) or Quicktime (MOV) video downloads (right) to watch part two of our video interview with the TDM design team.

Learn off-road skills with BMW

01 October 2001

Learn off-road skills with BMW

The BMW Off-Road Skills course has two remaining dates in 2001: October 19-20 and October 21-22. This award-winning course, pioneered in Germany, will take place at BMW’s exclusive off-road facility...

Sigma Ducati 853s

01 October 2001

Sigma Ducati 853s

Not everyone is a fan of Ducati’s 748. There’s no doubt it’s as beautiful as the 916 or 996 but because of its smaller capacity it just doesn’t have the same credibility. Related: In-depth Ducati 748...

Terblanche on the Multistrada part one

01 October 2001

Terblanche on the Multistrada part one

Choose a Real Player (RM) or Quicktime (MOV) download to watch the first part of our exclusive interview with Pierre Terblanche.

Celebrities and pillions

01 October 2001

Celebrities and pillions

Celebrities: Suzi Perry: TV presenter: The first time I did 100mph was on the back of Kenny Roberts on his GSXR750 around Donnington the year he became World Champion. It was totally exhilarating, it...

You’ve seen the bikes of 2002… here’s some for 2003

01 October 2001

You’ve seen the bikes of 2002… here’s some for 2003

Honda showed off its new bikes for 2002 at a private launch in Paris last month, now the firm is revealing some of its bikes for 2003. The huge VTX1800 is being joined by two more machines carrying...

Send us your daft snaps

01 October 2001

Send us your daft snaps

IT’S supposed to be the highlight of your season – the moment you meet your hero. You’ve queued for the pit lane walkabout, jostled for position in the crowd, blagged a pen and poster and primed your...

World’s first ride on new Ducati 998

01 October 2001

World’s first ride on new Ducati 998

Marc Potter has stepped off the new Ducati 998 to report his first impressions of the Italian firm’s new flagship sports bike. Potter said on Tuesday he had enjoyed two sessions so far on the bike but...

Blue Marlin voted Best-Looking bike of 2002

01 October 2001

Blue Marlin voted Best-Looking bike of 2002

Aprilia’s Blue Marlin has come out way ahead in your vote for the best-looking bike of 2002. The firm revealed it’s ” close-to-production ” prototype at the Milan show last month looking for public...

Racers and ex-racers

01 October 2001

Chris Walker: Ex BSB and GP rider: Cast your mind back a quarter of a century when Chris Walker wasn’t so much the wild riding Stalker as the barely out of nappies Toddler. Not that that was enough to stop him wanting to get in the seat – the problem was he just wasn’t big enough. The man himself draws an entertaining picture of the event. There he is, out in front of the house on a bright day,...

Yamaha R6

01 October 2001

Yamaha R6

Year: 1999 (T). Mileage: 5457. Price £4599. The R6 is aimed at the sportier end of the 600 market, but the previous owner of this example obviously had different ideas – the high-rise pillion grabrail...

Kawasaki ZZ-R1100

01 October 2001

Kawasaki ZZ-R1100

Year: 1999(V) Mileage: 5619. Price £4699. Kawasaki’s ZZ-R1100 was the first bike to be designed as a very, very fast sports-tourer, equally at home on sweeping mountain roads in the Alps as it is...

Strange but true

01 October 2001

Here’s out latest collection of weird worldwide tales with a motorcycling bent. If you have anything worthy of adding to our next round-up send an e-mail to jon.urry@emap.com Croatia: Despite being a national hero, Wimbledon champ Goran Ivanisevic can’t flog his Piaggio scooter. No-one put in a serious offer for it in a recent charity auction. Giant Ivanisevic, who is 6ft 5in tall, was told to get...

Coming soon on this site

01 October 2001

On Monday, October 8, 2001, we’ll bring you video action from our world’s first test of Ducati’s flagship 998 superbike. We expect to bring you another first test on another important performance bike early next week, too. Keep checking back to make sure you don’t miss a thing.

Chat live with Shane Byrne on Thursday lunchtime

01 October 2001

Shane ‘Shakey’ Byrne will be online on Thursday October 4, from 1pm, to answer questions from anyone registered with motorcyclenews.com. Whether you want to know what he thought of Rockingham, or whether it got boring winning every round he finished, you’ll have your chance on Thursday. He won this season’s privateer championship within the the British Superbike championship. To join the live chat...

2000cc outfit should top 160mph

01 October 2001

2000cc outfit should top 160mph

This is the Sidebike, a mad bike-and-sidecar-in-one outfit with its own two litre engine. The French manufacturers claim the engine as their own work and say it makes 133bhp. The sidecar part has room...

MCN staffers

01 October 2001

MCN staffers

Andy Downes: Deputy Editor: I had no money, about the same amount of common sense, but I wanted that bike. Even the “killer kettle” label couldn’t put me off. In fact, as a spotty 18-year-old, it...

Lib-Dem transport policy focuses on bikes

01 October 2001

Lib-Dem transport policy focuses on bikes

The Liberal Democrats have devoted a whole section of their latest transport policy to ” Two Wheeled Motor Vehicles ” . Do they mean us? We think so. ” Two-wheeled motor vehicles, ” the policy...

Suzuki to bring in Roberts rep GSX-R600

01 October 2001

Suzuki to bring in Roberts rep GSX-R600

Suzuki says it is ” 99 per cent sure ” it will import a GSX-R600 with the MoviStar colours of defending World 500GP champion Kenny Roberts. And the good news for those who like the look is that it...

What it was like to crack the ton

01 October 2001

What it was like to crack the ton

Ring ting, ting. We all know the sound from our learner days. Little 125cc two-stroke engines blowing clouds of delicious-smelling blue smoke into the atmosphere. This isn’t pollution, it’s a joy. But...

Win a riding holiday and track school with Chili

01 October 2001

Win a riding holiday and track school with Chili

Get ready for some sun-drenched roads, grippy track school Tarmac and lessons from Frankie Chili… you could be the lucky winner of a fantastic riding holiday to Nogaro in the south of France with the...