Bike Reviews

RIDDEN: Indian Baggers

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Mark Lancaster

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12th July 2025

Indian’s a name that needs no introduction to the heavyweight cruiser scene, but its new fleet of Chieftain baggers is certainly worthy of some noise. Dave Manning tells us what we need to know… While circuit racing has been very distant from the world of laid-back, American-style cruiser motorcycles, there has been something of a tidal…
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TRIUMPH: Bobber TFC

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Mark Lancaster

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1st February 2025

Alan Dowds brings us up to speed… We’ll be honest: some of the limited-edition Triumphs in recent years have been a bit underwhelming. A chrome tank, some pin-stripe paint lines, and an Elvis paint job are all pleasant enough, but we generally like a bit more in a special model. Like this – the new…
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TESTED: MBP C1000V Cruiser

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Mark Lancaster

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14th October 2024

If you’re into big cruisers, there’s a new kid on the block that you need to know about. Jonathan Schofield tells us what we need to know. Cruisers are a style of motorcycle that have never really caught my eye. The low-slung seat and raised bars all seemed a little impractical on the tight, uneven…
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Quick Test: Harley-Davidson Livewire

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Mark Lancaster

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19th September 2024

Bob Pickett has ridden Harley’s electric offering. Here’s what Bob thought! If you had asked which major manufacturer would be first to launch a high-specification electric motorcycle, I doubt Harley-Davidson would have topped many people’s list. Yet in 2014 it debuted a prototype, and in 2019 it went into full production. In the same year,…
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TESTED: Kawasaki Eliminator 500

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Mark Lancaster

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1st July 2024

WORDS: Nik Samson PHOTOS: Kawasaki EU The A2 licence-compliant Eliminator takes its cues from the Eliminators of the 1980s, the ZL900s and 1000s and, later, the 600s, too, and there’re very definite styling cues in the rear mudguard, back light, and fuel tank to their drag-strip inspired predecessors. However, the new 500 is an all-new…
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ROAD TEST: Harley-Davidson Sportster S

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Mark Lancaster

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12th June 2024

A grunty V-twin motor, fat tyres and feet-forward pegs. It could only be a Harley. Matt Hull does some serious rumbling on the Sportster, here’s Matt’s musings… Life is now about what you look like. What social media will judge you on. How ‘friends’ you’ve never met see your position in society. To hell with…
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Indian Scout Rogue road test

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Nik Samson

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12th January 2024

The Rogue feels different from the other Scouts– it’s cool, growls a bit more deeply and has a slightly more expectant persona – but what’s it like to ride?
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Long Termers: Indian Challenger

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Mark Lancaster

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27th December 2023

Motorcycle Sport & Leisure Magazine Editor Dave Manning feeds back on his five months with the Indian he intercontinental ballistic cruise missile that is the Challenger has now returned to Indian. There are a few things that I’ll not miss, as I slide my weary behind on to any one of a number of significantly…
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UPBEAT DEMEANOUR

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Alex Bestwick

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1st August 2022

With the current fashion for doing up older Japanese bikes, particularly Kawasaki Zeds, Suzuki GSs and GSXs, and Yamaha RDs and YPVSs, in a ‘restomod’ (restored and modernised) style, it’s good to see that some out there don’t slavishly follow the herd…
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VIDEO: Barry’s Bantam Bobber

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Ben Stockdale

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10th June 2021

You don’t see many custom Bantams, BSA Bantams, these days (or back then either actually), so this one of Barry’s is a bit good. It was originally a very battered 1951 D1 125cc that he bought from a guy in Bristol, and crammed into the back of a, get this, a Fiat Panda (not the…
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