Motorcycle Reviews

Motorcyclist’s First Rides section showcases our staff riding the latest motorcycles and street bikes from Suzuki, Yamaha, Kawasaki, Honda, Triumph, BMW, MV Agusta, Moto Guzzi, Harley Davidson, Ducati, Aprilia and more in order to give you their professional impressions. Find motorcycle reviews and sport bike tests including comparisons and much more.

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	FIRST RIDE: BMW R1200C Montauk This whole BMW cruiser thing is finally starting to make sense. The Germans seem to have realized that cruisers require a certain degree of... more

	FIRST RIDE: 2004 Victory Kingpin Like a busload of errant conventioneers pulling up at the Palomino Club, we absolutely love Vegas--the Victory Vegas V-twin cruiser, that... more

	FIRST RIDE: 2004 Honda 599 How long have we wondered when someone, anyone, would launch a true competitor to Suzuki's SV650? (Right after we and Suzuki realized how... more

	FIRST LOOK: Triumph Rocket III All the new "big cruisers" are children's toys compared with the 2004 Triumph Rocket III. This mother's powered by a mammoth,... more

	FIRST RIDE: 2004 Buell XB12R and XB12S Wisconsin's Road America (RA) raceway is a very long, very fast circuit--4.1 miles, with three long straights. So when Buell announced the... more

	FIRST RIDE: Moto Guzzi MGS-01 Corsa Moto Guzzi shocked everyone at last September's Munich Show with the stylish and sporty MGS-01 prototype. Nine months later, it's... more

	2004 Ducati Monster S4R: The meanest Monster ever I cranked the throttle for the first time, and the most powerful production Monster lunged forward almost hard enough to bend its fancy new... more

	First Ride: 2004 HONDA VALKYRIE RUNE The guy on the Fat Boy spotted us riding up Pacific Coast Highway--and hung a U-turn to give chase. He followed us for 10 miles as we cut... more

	First Ride: 2004 Harley Sportster 883 & 1200 The details of those changes as well as photos of the 2004 Sportsters and Harley's other new motorcycles are in an accompanying story. This... more

	First Look: 2004 Harley-Davidson Motorcycles We have now seen the Harley-Davidson's 2004 Sportsters, and as expected, they use an all-new frame that rubber-mounts a revised engine. The... more

	First Ride: Ducati's 2004 MultiStrada IT WAS DUCATI'S chief test rider Andrea Forni who convinced me about the Multistrada, though I didn't realise it at the time. The Ducati... more

	2004 CBR1000RR: Gettin' it On Judging by this image (from Japan's Auto By magazine), Honda's replacement for the CBR954RR will indeed be a large-displacement-and far... more

	2004 Mille: A Quick Look Word on the street is that Aprilia has a well-sorted, fully developed redesign of its flagship superbike, the Mille. Aprilia reportedly... more

	Ducati Monster S4R: Hungry Like the Wolf? First, Ducati disappointed us by dropping the 916-powered Monster S4 from its 2003 lineup. Then it won back our hearts and minds with the... more

	First Ride: 2003 BMW K1200GT From where we sit, the K1200RS has always been something of a jackalope. You know, the beast immortalized on wacky roadside postcards: a... more

	First Ride: BMW 1150R Rockster BMW caused a few arguments at last September's Intermot show in Munich when it pulled the wraps off a concept bike based on the R1150R... more

	First Ride: Moto Guzzi Breva V750 i.e. IT HAD BEEN A RELAXED RIDE on Moto Guzzi's latest roadster. This morning we'd headed north from our hotel base in northern Italy and halted... more

	First Ride: 2003 Suzuki GSX-R1000 Back in Boss Angeles, nasty weather has my boys pinned down watching Three Stooges re-runs. Bike testing is impossible. Meanwhile, two... more

	First Ride: Go Naked, Go Fast: Kawasaki Z1000 First Ride Editor's Note: We took delivery of a Z1000 testbike just the other day, and have already begun the thrashing. But in the space between... more

	First Ride: Aprilia Mille R Has it only been a year since we wrung out our first RSV Mille? Why, yes, we fawned and toadied all over it in our April 2000 issue. Be... more

	First Ride: 2002 Yamaha YZF-R1 When Yamaha's "new" YZF-R1 was unveiled at last year's Milan show, everyone wondered how Yoshikazu Koike and his design team-still under... more

	First Ride: Yamaha FZ1 In yet another display of magnanimity and the necessity to be a player in the growing naked street-stomper market, Yamaha flew the world... more

	First Ride: 2003 Yamaha YZF-R6 These Andalucian hills could pass for coastal California, but we're 6000 miles away from that reality. Yamaha has flown motorcycling's... more

	Ducati 999 World Premiere I remember getting a little sideways right before the Tramonto left-hander turned into a bad dream. Thankfully, that's all it was.... more

	First Ride: Cagiva 650 Raptor Can Less Be More? more

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Motorcycle Reviews by Make

• Aprilia	• Honda	• Suzuki
• Bimota	• Kawasaki	• Triumph
• BMW	• KTM	• Victory
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• Harley-Davidson	• MV Agusta

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