BeMoto Blog Posts

​Putting together a magazine group test can be a hilarious minefield, especially if it involves taking a load of bikes abroad…

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...

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...

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...

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?

Congratulations! You're the millionth customer at the local multi-franchise mega-bike-dealer! And so you've picked up a very special prize! Yep, you're going on an actual bike press launch. Wooh! So what can you expect?

I remember when I first rode one of these – it was back in 1997, it had a set of cheap, loud cans on it, and it went like hell. A hundred and seventy appeared on the clocks in no time, totally belying the rather unassuming appearance of the little Honda...

Back in the 90s and 00s, it wasn't unusual to see motors being updated every couple of years. So it's a sign of just how good Yamaha made the original FJ1100 motor back in 1984, that it's still going strong today, in the naked XJR1300. That's more than 32 years with essentially the same layout...