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The Bridgestone BT-003 is all-new for 2008, and as the name suggests is their third effort at a Supersport tyre. The pattern is new, and is the most direct link to MotoGP as, modestly, Bridgestone aren’t over-egging their first title. The centre of each tyre is more heavily grooved than you might expect; it looks…

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Phil Plater from Dunlop said to me, “I won’t ask you to write nice things, just tell the truth.” That’s the mark of a man confident in his product, and with good reason as it turns out. The D211GP is a brand new tyre for the ’08 season, following a long line of hugely successful…

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From the first session, I found this shock supple, communicative, and easy to set up. Twin-speed compression adjustment is nothing special these days when it comes on so many road bikes. Nevertheless, the WP underlines its value with consistent, gradual, and linear adjustment that makes it easy to get handling and bump control dialled right…

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This is the only product that we try to avoid testing, but a full season of racing made it almost inevitable. My crash came at Snetterton, in the 50mph Sears corner that leads onto the back straight. I was trying to get on the gas extra early to get the drive on the two faster…

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Quick-action throttles are a fetish of mine; I fit them to all my bikes. This Roby Moto unit is one of the best I’ve used. It’s well made in ally, and the speed of the action is adjustable with the choice of four cable drums. If your bike has separate throttle and killswitch units (most…

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In the last five years slipper clutches have gone from exotic race bike bike addenda to road bike essential. Few new sportsbikes now go without one. That trend has impacted the aftermarket in two ways. On one hand, fewer new bikes need their clutch upgrading to the slippery variety. On the other, it becomes an…

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You should by now have tried a V2 sponge on your visor. We gave you one free with the mag earlier in the year. It’s brilliant at cleaning even the most stubborn bugs off your visor and the cloth it comes with dries and polishes perfectly. You may have also used your V2 to clean…

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The SXC design has been around for a few years now, but development has continued, hence the ‘4’ in the name. The original idea was to raise the bar for dampers, adding to both the appearance and functionality. To that end the smart mounting kit features your bike’s name (unless you call your bike Freddie,…

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I’ve had this container of special hand love hanging around on a garage shelf for four years now, after an over excited Wurth rep left it with me to test. I tried it once, about four years ago, and was so put off by the sticky white mess in my hands that I washed it…

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Stomp Grip is a textured, tacky rubber pad that sticks to the side of your tank. It’s shaped to fit individual bikes, and the idea is that it lets you connect with the bike better. In particular, it’s for ‘hooking onto the tank’ in the way that the California Superbike School teaches. I have to…

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Aftermarket bolts vary in quality massively, and we generally aren’t fans of any of the alloy stuff because it rounds out so easily. However, Pro-Bolt titanium bolts are top quality. Cleverly, the oil filler cap and the sump bolt are pre-drilled for lockwire, which saves a massive amount of messing about snapping drill bits. The…

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Most rearsets, especially when fitted to road bikes, are fashion accessories. Not these. The Moto46 rearsets are pure function. They aren’t adjustable, they aren’t pretty, and they aren’t light. Hang on a minute though, because the plus points are arguably more important. They are stronger than Superman, and cheaper than chips at

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You may think tyre warmers are either for racers or flash bastards on trackdays, but let me give you something to think about. It takes at least two laps to warm up tyres from stone cold, and more if it’s a short lap or you’re on race rubber. At most, you’ll get around 14 laps…

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