Fast Bikes magazine October 2019

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❯❯ SUZUKI MOTOGP: COMEBACK KINGS ❯❯ BUYING A USED YAMAHA MT-07 ❯ ❯ CHECKING OUT THE PILLARS OF ENGINE PERFORMANCE

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IT’S THE NEWS!

Upfront ........................................... 10 All the tastiest gossip.

GEARED UP!

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Products.......................................... 15 All the latest, coolest and trickest products.

THE KNOWLEDGE

Used Bike Guide.............................. 72

Everything you need to know when buying a Yamaha MT-07.

Track Craft ......................................78 How to make the most of your trackday.

Master Legal ..................................111

SUB

Know when to take it on the chin when things don’t go your way in court.

YOUR LIFE ON BIKES

Addiction.........................................56 Ian Carson of Speedycom shows off his bling-bling Kawasaki H2.

You & Yours.....................................90 All of your latest adventures!

Chatter ............................................92 It’s only fair we give the best readers in the world a page of their own!

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WORKSHOP

Know Your.......................................88

…Thumb Brakes. What’s this latest craze that’s sweeping across the race tracks?

OUR LIFE ON BIKES

Staff Bikes.....................................110 •Honda CBR650R •Kawasaki ZX-6R

•Yamaha MT-10 SP •BMW S1000RR

Race Riot .........................................84 More endurance racing for Bruce and Carl, whilst Boothy’s been in Ireland for the Ulster GP.

RACE SECTION

Pit Pass............................................ 106

The lowdown on BSB, WSBK and MotoGP.

COLUMNISTS

Neave twins.................................. 112

Honda rider, Tom, is making hay whilst the sun shines.

Christian Iddon............................. 113

Iddon has one final push to get into the BSB. showdown.

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Steve Parrish ................................ 114

Parrish’s take on all things bike racing.

TESTS COVER STORY £4k Frolic? ..................................20

Armed with £4k, the FB lads take to the used bike market to see what they can find.

Little or Large....................................50 Frodo has pitched the big Tuono V4 against its baby brother, the Tuono 125, to see if size really does matter.

Electronic Suspension ...................... 62 Gimmick or Innovation? We have back-tobacked Kawasaki’s standard suspension shod ZX-10R vs the electronically suspended ZX-10R SE to see if the extra is worth the money.

FEATURES

Gar-Mission ....................................... 36 Boothy has been putting the miles in on Bruce’s S1000RR – all the way to Bavaria.

FB’s Top Ten – Engine Innovations ... 42 We take a look at how engines have improved over the years.

Ten minutes with.............................. 48 Rennie Scaysbrook – 2019 Pikes Peak hill climb winner.

Suzuki Moto GP ................................ 94 We drop in on Suzuki to quiz GP winner Alex Rins on all things racing.

WELCOME

That time again

H

ow’s your month been? We’ve had a crazy time here at Fast Bikes, riding more models than Boothy’s had hot women, and clocking sufficient miles to put us on a climate change hit-list (don’t tell them where we live!). It’s been a right laugh. Some stuff you won’t get to see for a few issues, but hopefully you’ll enjoy the good times we’ve got to show you within these very pages, travelling here, there and everywhere in our bid to deliver you the best sportsbike mag on the market.

It’s a depressing thought, but autumn is nearly upon us, as the occasional grey skies and downpours of the wet stuff go to validate. The question is, have you made the most of the year?

What else would you have chosen to do, and what’s stopping you from doing it? There aren’t many days where we’re not riding bikes, having adventures and generally messing around, whether we’re near or far from home. But Boothy’s gone the extra miles this issue, having taken the keys of my S 1000 RR and given it a road test like no other, pinned flat out on the Autobahns. He clocked just over 1,000 miles in a day on his return stint from boozing in Bavaria, just to make sure he didn’t miss out on Corrie – even though it left him walking funny for the next week.

There might have been a comfier bike for that kind of trip, and a cheaper one, too. We decided to take a look at the used market this month and were blown away by just how many great used options you can pick up for around £4,000. Old bikes, newer bikes, iconic bikes and fast bikes; the options were endless, so when we set ourselves the challenge of (hypothetically) buying three used machines, it’s no surprise that we settled for three very different, but credible purchases. I’m still quite sure my RVF400 was the best buy, but you’ll have to skim a few pages to read the other two’s cases.

Talking of investments, we’ve also been putting the question of manual versus electronic suspension to the test. High-tech pogos are becoming more common than herpes on top-spec sportsbikes, but is the investment worth the hype?

There was only one way to find out! It’s great when we do a technical test like that, and we’re always up for suggestions, so if you’ve got any dilemmas you want us to get to the bottom of, fire them over and we’ll do our best. In the meantime, enjoy the mag, enjoy the last of the good weather, and make sure to keep us in the loop with where you go and what you get up to.

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