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  • Free Trackday Guide – Out Now!

    Free Trackday Guide – Out Now!

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    With the current edition of the mag’ (Issue 328, July ’17), we’ve added on a Trackday Guide supplement for you, which covers all bases if you’ve never been on track before, and would like to give it a try. In the wee magazine we cover: Track Schools – What, who, where and which are the…

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  • Ducati Supersport S Vs Rivals! Out Now!

    Ducati Supersport S Vs Rivals! Out Now!

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    Ducati’s Supersport S has very few direct rivals, bar perhaps Honda’s ageing VFR800, seeing as this class of motorcycle is now all but defunct. Ducati believed that missing gap needed filling though, so came up with the perfectly formed Supersport and Supersport S… And, we’d say they are bang on correct because there used to…

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  • July 2017 – Issue 328

    July 2017 – Issue 328

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    Ruling the roads BMW S 1000 RR, Aprilia RSV4 RF, Suzuki GSX-R1000 R & Kawasaki ZX-10RR fight it out for supremacy on ‘er Maj’s highways! Avon Spirit ST Beej heads out to Portugal to try Avon’s latest mid-range, do-it-all hoop! McPint Magic We learn the secrets of the TT from JMG Chez TT Racer Gaz…

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  • 2017 Ducati Supersport

    2017 Ducati Supersport

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    Ducati is re-entering the not-quite-mental fray with the release of a new SuperSport bike. This was the machine that sat in a box during World Ducati Week at Misano, so there’s a fair chance that some of you will have seen it already. And in another way, we think that we’ve seen it already as…

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  • 2017 Honda Fireblade SP2

    2017 Honda Fireblade SP2

    Honda is returning to the sports sector with a vengeance. You’ll have read about the SP1, with its butch, new motor, electronic Ohlins suspension, 14 kilo weight loss and fresh new looks in the website (if not, do it!), and now the Honda SP2 has also been unveiled, to much cooing from us! Honda is…

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  • 2017 Honda Fireblade SP1

    2017 Honda Fireblade SP1

    Honda releases first details of revamped Fireblade – now available in three flavours including this first-to-be-released SP1 version. This really is just what the doctor ordered. We all know how ridable the current bike is – just look at the bike’s TT results – and with a slashing of weight and an upping of power the bike…

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  • 2017 Suzuki GSX-S750

    2017 Suzuki GSX-S750

    On the back of the success of the GSX-S1000, Suzuki is going to try to repeat the trick but using the Gixer 750 motor to form the GSX-S750. We’re hoping this will be no repeat of the korma-mild GSR750, and a rather hoping it’ll be a ‘little’ belter. Again, harking back to 2005 (the same…

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  • 2017 Suzuki GSX-R1000 and GSX-R1000R

    2017 Suzuki GSX-R1000 and GSX-R1000R

    We’ve finally got the nuts and bolts behind the new GSX-R1000 – and the new GSX-R1000R. Yes, there are two new bikes to behold from the Intermot show in Cologne. Let’s hope that they were worth the wait – given the spec list, we think they will be… The top line figures are 202bhp at the…

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  • Fast Bikes – Latest Issue Out Now

    Fast Bikes – Latest Issue Out Now

    Fast Bikes in in the shops (and the digital shops, too) so rush out now! So what’s in it? And there we were thinking two strokes had died their death decades ago. One man, Eskil Suter, thought not, and after conceiving a project in his head he’s seen it through into reality with the magnificent…

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  • Fast Bikes – Out Now!

    Fast Bikes – Out Now!

    Fast Bikes is 25 years old. Yes, it’s hard to believe that the accountants, insurance companies, health and safety executives or law enforcers haven’t pulled the shutter down on this most enthusiastic of ventures – but it’s true. We’re growing old disgracefully, and as such this month’s mag is a celebration of all things Fast…

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  • Fast Bikes Latest Issue OUT NOW

    Fast Bikes Latest Issue OUT NOW

    This month we see the big kahuna, the Fast Bikes Sportbike of the Year test. For those unfamiliar with the best test in the world, we take the ten best sportsbikes on the planet and spend two days on one of the best tracks in the world in the attempt to declare one of these…

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  • Fast Bikes – Out Now!

    Fast Bikes – Out Now!

    It’s not all fancy launches, spanking new bikes and sunshine at Fast Bikes. In fact, there’s nothing we like more than getting some cracking used bikes and heading out to our favourite local roads. That’s what we did this month, choosing four classic machines – that have surprisingly un-classic price tags. Whether it was a…

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  • May 2016 Issue Out Now!

    May 2016 Issue Out Now!

    Rejoice, Fast Bikes fans, because the May 2016 issue of the mag is now done and dusted, and you’ll be able to read about everything we’ve poured into the latest issue to ensure that you’ll have 132 pages of awesomeness to enjoy. So what’s in it? For a start, we’ve got the three most important…

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  • Fast Bikes April 2016 – Out Now

    Fast Bikes April 2016 – Out Now

    The latest issue of Fast Bikes is out now – and weighing down a newsagent’s shelf ready for you to pick up its 132 pages of awesomeness! The start of any year tends to get us all thinking about our weight – and we’re no different at Fast Bikes. It’s just that we start thinking…

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  • 2016 Kawasaki ZX-10R Launch

    2016 Kawasaki ZX-10R Launch

    The new Kawasaki ZX-10R has been launched out in Sepang. While Rootsy musters his thoughts on the matter, here’s an onboard lap of him having rather a lot of fun around the Malaysian track… You’ll be able to read all about it on February the 2nd…

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