New for 2019, the Weise Outlaw retro textile jacket and Tundra jeans blend classic styling with thoroughly modern materials, protection and practicality. The Outlaw Jacket has a tough 600 Denier textile outer shell and removable CE approved shoulder, elbow and…
We called out the Fazer 1000 as an ‘hmmm’ bike, back in January. But feedback from you says you like it. So here is some info on the bike as a used buy. As mentioned on CB-Net in Jan, when…
Way, way back in 1990 Kawasaki launched two sibling rocket ships. Yes, at the time of their birth, both the ZZ-R1100 and ZZ-R600 were cutting-edge sports tackle and fast as buggery hell. Soon – in just a few short years…
We love a trier, here at CB-Net and the Ace was always one of those… It tried hard, it was a great bike, but also – strangely – a bit of an also-ran. It was Yamaha’s stop-gap answer to the…
The Motorbike Show returns for a brand new series on ITV4 starting on 2nd May. In the first of six hour-long episodes, presenter Henry Cole visits Wales to ride the iconic Devil’s Bridge, joins Sam Lovegrove to buy a rare…
We here at CB-Net figured we’d chuck some interesting bits and pieces at you about Triumph, which John Bloor resurrected almost 20 years ago. John Stuart Bloor made his fortune in the building trade, with Bloor Homes. He bought the…
You don’t have to fly the Cross of St. George outside your semi or wave the Union Jack around like a dervish to be a patriot. You could put your money where your mouth is and ‘buy British.’ Here’s our…
New for 2019, the OptiMate1 Duo takes battery charging and maintenance to the next level, automatically recognising whether a battery is lead acid or Lithium Ion, so the user can just plug-in and go. Faced with a new or a…
Yamaha had a good track record of building manic and crazy machines in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s – in both two and four-stroke guise. Think back to the RDs of old both 350 and 400, then the LC (250/350)…
When news first hit about this new machine the journos got it all wrong – because initially this was thought to be the replacement for the venerable YZF750 – it was even spotted being tested by Yamaha world superbike riders…
