Honda's Africa Twin is more than a motorcycle. I always liked the ballsiness of its name invoking the magic of an entire continent as your marketing, the implication being that This Is It - the motorcycle which is going to take you anywhere.
There's a hell of a lot to be said about a bike that gets you up at 3 a.m. for just one more go. While the rest of London slept, I found myself out on the CB750 Hornet again. Couldn't help it. I knew the nice man from Honda would soon be on his way to take it from me...
It's funny how rarely motorcycle riders are accused of compensating for anything. Drive a Porsche or a McLaren, a Ferrari or a Lamborghini, and the suggestion that you're making up for a lack of something is usually quick to follow.
I'm going to do this one a bit differently. A lot of what you read about the Honda XL750 Transalp covers technical specs: kerb weight, power output, and all sorts of other numbers to do with suspension travel and wheel diameter...
As the bike rolled down the ramp, I started asking questions. Panniers? Who puts panniers on a 450cc urban slice-and-dicer? What do I need those for? Oh, they are removable. That's cool. But waterproof panniers? Am I turning into my dad?
There is only one metric that matters when you test a motorcycle: how quickly you want to jump back on it. The Honda CMX1100 Rebel takes this one step further. It has the curious ability to make you want to ride it again before you've even parked it up.
In this week's article, our wayward motorcycle correspondent Conrad G weaves a yarn of sun, sand and suffering on the 2022 edition of Scram Africa, the rip-snorting continental scramble from Fuel Motorcycles...
It’s me again - your tame sim-racer turned real life clubman competitor! This time around I’m going to explain exactly how you can use your home sim racing setup to help you prepare for racing success in real life.
In this piece, amateur racing driver Mathieu Gauthier-Thornton takes us through his journey into motor racing, starting at the world-famous Silverstone circuit in 2021 as a competitor in the Clubmans Sports Prototype Championship.