Technical Features

An idiot’s guide to the main factors in frame, steering and chassis design. Read this, and you’ll be as happy chatting about rake, trail, wheelbase and fork offset, as you are about midrange grunt…

The original Speed Triple was, basically, a Daytona 900 with no fairing and a simple round headlamp; the ‘Striple 900’ inhabited a weird nether region between steady budget naked roadsters and full-on sports machinery of the 90s...

Battery Smart Chargers - How They Work. Don’t be left flat this winter, here’s our guide to keeping your battery healthy

We have found the best motorcycle ground anchor currently available on the market, which also happens to have a brilliant name. The W Anchor is DOUBLE Diamond Rated by Sold Secure and is the only Diamond rated self-install ground anchor...

We're often asked if GPS bike trackers are “worth it” and whether they will be offset by insurance discounts. We answer these and put your questions (and ours) to BikeTrac owner Bill Taylor... Plus we get Lamb Chops to steal our custom Fireblade and test BikeTrac response!

Most of us know what a pain it is to get a puncture – the time, the agony, the expense. Well what if you could dramatically reduce the risk of a flat? Bike-Seal is a simple solution but with an impressive technical C.V.

In Part Two of our look at motorcycle engines Alan Dowds takes a look at the big, serious world of multi-cylinder lumps, from four up to eight. Of these engines we again look at which of them are awesome, and which run like a bag of spanners!

Most of us know what kind of engine we have in our bikes – the different characters of a single, twin, triple or four (or more!) cylinder motor are much more obvious than they might be in a car. But what’s best? Which motors are great and which suck...