In 2002 Honda updated its venerable all-rounder, the VFR, and brought it into its sixth generation. The previous VFR was getting Maybe it was boredom from consistently winning British motorcycle magazine sport-tourer shootouts, but Honda seems to have fixed a bike that may not have been truly broken.  The sixth generation of VFR came to market…

The CBR1100XX Blackbird was, at its introduction, one of the most renowned bikes of its day. But that was far from my mind as I sat contemplating its seating position and what could be done to make it more comfy. I was tallying up modifications, not to improve its top speed, but just to make…

The first thing that will strike you about the ST1300 is not it’s styling, a preying mantis look that has been beaten into submission with the conservative stick by the marketing department, but its engine note. The engine at idle sounds like an escapee from the foley stage for a Jetson’s cartoon; a whirring sci-fi…