Bertie Simmonds

  • The best Blade? Honda CBR1000RR-6 Fireblade

    The best Blade? Honda CBR1000RR-6 Fireblade

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    Amazing to think that this machine is not far off 20 years old –just look at it! Goes well, too. Bertie Simmonds makes the case for the RR-6 being the best Blade ever…

  • 1999 Suzuki SV650: still going strong

    1999 Suzuki SV650: still going strong

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    Twenty-five years on and still going strong: what is about Suzuki’s seminal SV650 family that makes them marvellous motorcycles? Read on.

  • Ducati racing – 1990s style

    Ducati racing – 1990s style

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    Eight World Superbike Championships in a decade marked Ducati’s 888 and 916 production racers as ‘simply the best’ but it wasn’t always plain sailing for the Bologna bullets.

  • Take a look at the new Triumph Bonneville Bobber TFC – only 750 to be sold!

    Take a look at the new Triumph Bonneville Bobber TFC – only 750 to be sold!

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    If you like your Triumphs and love a Bobber – this is probably the ultimate bike for you This is a new Triumph Factory Custom (TFC) and only 750 will be sold around the world. They feature gloss carbon-fibre bodywork bits; two-tone paint, some of which is hand-finished (with the painter’s signature under the tank);…

  • Triumph Rocket III: Test riding a beefy British classic

    Triumph Rocket III: Test riding a beefy British classic

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    Big, bad-ass, British and brilliant – the immense Triumph Rocket III is now 20 years old and as beefy as ever…

  • Triumph Rocket III at 20

    Triumph Rocket III at 20

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    Bertie Simmonds rides a modern classic beast in its 20th anniversary year.

  • From the archive: Isle of Man TT in the 1950s

    From the archive: Isle of Man TT in the 1950s

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    This 1958 Isle of Man TT race shot is of Ernst Degner, a notable defector to the West in 1961 and winner of Suzuki’s first world championship in 1962.

  • Classic Racers: Anthony Gobert

    Classic Racers: Anthony Gobert

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    Anthony Gobert was an incredibly talented off-road and Tarmac racer, who should have become a world champion.

  • Foggy’s first World Superbike championship, 30 years on

    Foggy’s first World Superbike championship, 30 years on

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    It’s three decades since Carl Fogarty became World Superbike champion for the first time.

  • Classic Racers: Jimmy Aird

    Classic Racers: Jimmy Aird

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    What can be said about hard-as-nails Jim ‘Jimmy’ Aird, legendary off-roader, Scottish champion and proprietor of SCOTT Leathers?


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