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Biog: Alan Dowds
With stints on MCN, RiDE and over a decade on Superbike magazine as the deputy editor, Dowdsy has been a freelance bike journalist for the last six years...
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Top Wheelie Bikes
Yeah, yeah, we know what the grown-ups say. Wheelies: they're not big and they're not clever. Anyway. Done properly (on a closed road or track naturally), wheelies are a very fine test of a bike's performance...
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Kawasaki Ninja H2R (H2F Concept)
If we're getting a supercharged Kawasaki H2R Supersports bike, let's imagine what a street version could look like too. Originally created for Rapid Bikes magazine, this virtual supercharged H2 CGI gets a BeMoto update...
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The beautiful chaos of magazine road tests
Putting together a magazine group test can be a hilarious minefield, especially if it involves taking a load of bikes abroad…
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The day I fell for a CX500
The CX was dead, forgotten, history. Occasionally I’d see one propping up a mouldy tarpaulin in someone’s front garden, but then a hipster took a hacksaw to a CX500 seat unit, ripped out the battery and side panels, fitted wire spoke wheels, lagged the exhaust pipes, and the put the result on eBay with a £4000 price tag...
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Tell me about… exhaust gas
The connection between ‘man-made’ CO2 and global warming is, depending on who you believe, incontrovertible, tenuous or a fallacy. Either way it’s worth taking seriously, in a sort of green Pascal’s wager, because we’ve nothing to lose by accepting it and a whole planet to lose if we don’t...
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Can rider anger can cause more bike accidents than car drivers?
The psychology of riding a bike is, literally, a grey matter area. There is no rule book precisely because not having rules is one of the rules. And no-one trains riders to recognise the kind of person they are, the kind of brains they have, and the kind of behaviour they exhibit on a bike...
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What is... ECU flashing
Modifying the fuelling on engines is an essential part of any tuning process. The traditional way has been to use an aftermarket fuel injection computer, like the Dynojet Power Commander, but ECU flashing is the latest in fuel-injection tuning, and they've been doing it with cars for years. But what is it and how does it work?