BIKE TESTS: HONDA VTRIOOOSP-2 LAUNCH - Honda's race-rep V-twin gets a new coat of paint, flash wheels and hopefully a cure for its tetchy fuel injection HORNET v SPEED TRIPLE v BANDIT - Honda's Hornet 900 is the latest naked to take street style and sell It back to us. It's having a go, but is it hard enough? SUPERMOTOS ON TEST - CCM, KTM, Husaberg, Gas Gas, VOR and aha WR slithered ineptly round a kart . Not unexpectedly, it ended in tears BIG-BORE ZX-9R - Kawasaki's big bus 900 an extra 99ccs. Stand well back and let the fun begin. Maybe Kawasaki should do the same themselves YAMAHA TRX85D v LAVERDA B5DS - Two bags of sand and a few loose pebbles buys you a mid-to-upper-weight bargain funster. As long as you pick the right one
FEATURES: SUPERMOTDS - At last the truth on the skinny singles that are sweeping the nation, apparently. Where did they come from? Where are they going? PROJECT SLEDGEHAMMER - Sledgehammer gets a Yoshi EMS box, its wiring loom snipped, perfect fuelling, a few more bhp and deeply depressed JAMES ELLISDN INTERVIEW - 2001 wasn't a great year for Brits on the international race scene, unless their name happened to be James Ellison who won his second European Superstock title STEERING DAMPERS - A visual feast of the prettiest steering dampers to curb the worst slap-happy excesses of your flighty sportsbike ANTI-LOCK BRAKING SYSTEMS - Is machine better than man when deciding how hard to brake? And can bikes stop quicker than cars? You need to know
REGULARS: FRONT - Dark visor insanity continues as government backed study cooks the books again. And High'.-,ay Code is bollocks (and shite) RESPONSE - You have |0ur say, whether it was worth saying or not. which is roughly the same ethos we apply to the rest of the mag PRODUCTS - Bolt-ons, slip-ors the usually array of high-quality facLe you'll be powerless to resist spewing your hard-earned on RACE - Red Bull give the next generation of Britafc racers wings with a scheme to develop new riding talent. Petronas-Foggy team named CENTRES - Tear down that poster of tawdry flange treat the shed wall and npljcc it instead with Ms slip-sliding study of Cartos Checa SOAP OX - What drives the GP greats? Doohan had fte demeanour of a psycho, while Rossi's afewwj too laid back to get out of bed INSIGHTS - No time for top racers to cut any slack in the the winter months. Every lap they do in close-season testing will count next season SUBSCRIBE - Get a free 500 Grand Prix 2001 Review awl 12 issues for the price 10. We cannot fairer. Truly we are cutting our own STAFF BIKES - It's farewell then our lovelies as Ducati Honda CBRGOOF-Sport, Kawasaki and Suzuki GSX-R1000 head for THE SETUP - Suzuki GSX1300R Hayabusa READER'S SPECIAL - Just passed your test? You'll be wanting a tuned up R1 as your first bike NEXT MONTH - Know everything about Fireblades |