In all my years of riding I’ve never wanted to ‘bitch-slap’ so many people whilst testing a motorcycle, and they were all bikers who ride ‘modern’ stuff. Wherever I went with the Kawasaki W800 it was ridiculed and I found myself venomously defending it as if it were my own child squirted from the loins of my precious ‘bat and balls.’ These so called motorcyclist would arrogantly laugh and cackle as they shouted, “What fook is this ‘W’ thing, is it another of those Chinese bikes?”
Africa is a wild and wonderful place. The people and places are diverse, extreme and beautiful. I’ve only recently got the urge to see what’s out there for myself so when Bill asked if I wanted to test the F 800 GS Adventure I jumped at the opportunity. Would this bike be all I needed or does its big brother, the R 1200 GS Adventure, still hold all the trumps?
When it comes to heavy-duty touring bikes arguably Harley rules the roost. So to find out how such mass performs I took the Street Glide for, er, a glide…
If you ask anyone to name a 600cc sports bike the chances are they’re going to spit out the Honda CBR600RR. It seems like it’s been around, in one form or another, forever. But the 600cc sports bike class seems, sadly, to be slipping away into the cauldron of ‘nothing has really changed so why bother.’
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