Fast Bikes

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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