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Tickin' over
The 2023 British Superbike Championship is now well under way – and if you didn’t put the work in pre-season, I’m sorry to say you’ve probably missed the boat. Au revoir…
2 min |
June 2023
Fast Bikes UK
Max Cook
It's one of the great journalism clichés spotting the next hot new prospect in racing
4 min |
June 2023
Fast Bikes UK
WHAT THE TECH: REAR SUSPENSION
It's hard to oversell the significance of your bike's rear shock. Here's what you should know about it...
10+ min |
June 2023
Fast Bikes UK
SHED FIND TO SUPERBIKE...
Last month, they got the bike running. This month, the focus is on giving the ZX-7R a good old scrub and a bit of Love in the workshop
8 min |
June 2023
Fast Bikes UK
Used Bike Guide 2002 SUZUKI GSX-R1000 K1/2: HAVE SOME OF THAT!
In 2001, the bad boy of the litre bike class arrived - Suzuki's GSX-R1000
6 min |
June 2023
Fast Bikes UK
MOTOGP AT THE TT
In 2019, Michael Rutter lapped the TT at 131mph on his GP-derived Honda RCV213V-S. This year, he’s back for more of the same. Here’s the bike’s story
10+ min |
June 2023
Fast Bikes UK
SUZUKI GSX-8S
After a bit of a hiatus, Suzuki's back in the lucrative entry-level sector
10 min |
June 2023
Fast Bikes UK
FIT FIGHTING
It’s one thing making the most powerful, exciting and perhaps brilliant supernaked to ever grace the earth, but what happens when the time comes to top it?
10+ min |
June 2023
Fast Bikes UK
Christian Iddon
That’s Spanish testing complete and I’m on the flight back home. All that remains is a couple of UK tests before the season kicks off for real.
4 min |
May 2023
Fast Bikes UK
Tim Neave
Sh*t’s about to get real and I’ve never been so excited. We are now only three weeks away (at the time of writing this) from round one of the British Superbike Championship at Silverstone, March 7-9, and my off-season is rapidly drawing to a close.
3 min |
May 2023
Fast Bikes UK
Full zero gas
Sometimes it pays to back off the intensity...but in a structured way.
2 min |
May 2023
Fast Bikes UK
Jeremy McWilliams
Bike racing – it’s a young man’s (or woman’s) game, right? Bashing fairings and heads, trekking round the world, sacrificing every spare minute in a quest to go faster. Demanding complete physical and mental effort at all times.
3 min |
May 2023
Fast Bikes UK
WHAT THE TECH: AERODYNAMICS
The black art of aerodynamics is increasingly becoming the key area of development in the search for better lap times, especially in the prototype MotoGP class.
10+ min |
May 2023
Fast Bikes UK
SWANSONG STROKER: HONDA NSR250R SP
For the sake of science and box-ticking, we let Timmy loose on a special stroker that's older than him. Here's what he made of it...
6 min |
May 2023
Fast Bikes UK
PROJECT R7 ROAD TO THE TT
Before Chris ‘Spanner’ Anderson at MSS Performance could get his mits on the R7 and get rid of all the ‘road poo’, as he refers to it, the Bathams R7 had to spend an afternoon at K-Tech for some quality time with James Harpen.
5 min |
May 2023
Fast Bikes UK
RULE BREAKER
In 2012, Ducati rewrote the V-twin sportsbike rulebook with the 1199 Panigale...
6 min |
May 2023
Fast Bikes UK
SHED FIND TO SUPERBIKE...
We kick off our rags-to-riches approach of owning a dream bike...
8 min |
May 2023
Fast Bikes UK
CLASS OF ITS OWN: DUCATI MONSTER SP
It's hard to overstate just how important the Monster has been and still is to Ducati, and the Monster SP is set to heighten that legacy.
10 min |
May 2023
Fast Bikes UK
AND THEN THERE'S THE R...
If road riding is your greater focus, the R might be your better bet.
6 min |
May 2023
Fast Bikes UK
STREETS AHEAD TRIUMPH STREET TRIPLE 765RS
Never one to rest on its laurels, Triumph has once again put in the graft to keep the Street Triple at the top.
10+ min |
May 2023
Fast Bikes
2020 Ducati Panigale V4S Refined Rocket
With its sexy look and raw power, Ducati’s V4S Panigale hasn’t had to try hard to get our juices going over the past few years, but when it comes to setting fast laps it’s proven as user-friendly as a bucking bronco with a sore backside. Thankfully, for 2020 it’s been given some much needed refinement.
8 min |
March 2020
Fast Bikes
THE TEST OF TIME
You only have to take one look at these two models to see that a lot has changed over 20 years. But what exactly does two decades of development mean for Triumph’s flagship naked bike? There was only one way to find out…
9 min |
March 2020
Fast Bikes
NAKED ATTRACTION
Fun but flawed, why Suzuki's naked litre bike could now be worth a second Look.
3 min |
March 2020
Fast Bikes
TEN MINUTES WITH...TOMMY BRIDEWELL
From not having a job to almost winning the title in a couple of years, Bridewell really has turned things around. We caught up with him to see what’s changed, how he’s prepping for this season, and get an insight into being a front-running British Superbike rider…
7 min |
March 2020
Fast Bikes
PROJECT MILLE: PART 1
After too many years fighting the temptation, Dangerous has finally parted with some cash and bought himself a Mille. Only, it’s a bit of a shed…
5 min |
March 2020
Fast Bikes
DUCATI DIARIES; SCOTT COWDRYS 899 PANIGALE
Fast Bikes reader Scott Cowdry tells us exactly what it’s like to live with an 899 Panigale.
6 min |
March 2020
Fast Bikes
HYPERSPORT HOOPS
High-performance hoops are all the rage nowadays, but with so much choice on the market, which brands really is the best?
10+ min |
March 2020
Fast Bikes
HOW TO GO RACING
It may seem like a wild ride, but it’s not as intimidating as it looks. Here’s how to go racing in 2020…
9 min |
February 2020
Fast Bikes
MotoE: BRIGHT SPARK!
Dull, silent snooze-fest? Or the future of motorbike racing? The electric MotoGP support series MotoE has just finished its first season. Our man Alan Dowds went to watch the final round at Valencia, and find out how it’s gone.
10+ min |
February 2020
Fast Bikes
JOLLY FAST, GREEN GIANT - 2012 KAWASAKI ZZR 1400
Ian Carson has got a handful of bikes, but when he heads off to Ireland with his son, Aiden, it’s got to be on his 2012 Kawasaki ZZR 1400. In his own words, he tell us exactly why that is…
7 min |