Fast Bikes UK - May 2023

In this issue

Shed find to superbike
We breathe life back into a shed-find ZX-7R and start prepping it for sale.

What the tech: Aerodynamics
We delve deep into the mind-blowing world of MotoGP aerodynamics..

STREETS AHEAD TRIUMPH STREET TRIPLE 765RS

Never one to rest on its laurels, Triumph has once again put in the graft to keep the Street Triple at the top.

10+ mins

AND THEN THERE'S THE R...

If road riding is your greater focus, the R might be your better bet.

6 mins

CLASS OF ITS OWN: DUCATI MONSTER SP

It's hard to overstate just how important the Monster has been and still is to Ducati, and the Monster SP is set to heighten that legacy.

10 mins

SHED FIND TO SUPERBIKE...

We kick off our rags-to-riches approach of owning a dream bike...

8 mins

RULE BREAKER

In 2012, Ducati rewrote the V-twin sportsbike rulebook with the 1199 Panigale...

6 mins

PROJECT R7 ROAD TO THE TT

Before Chris ‘Spanner’ Anderson at MSS Performance could get his mits on the R7 and get rid of all the ‘road poo’, as he refers to it, the Bathams R7 had to spend an afternoon at K-Tech for some quality time with James Harpen.

5 mins

SWANSONG STROKER: HONDA NSR250R SP

For the sake of science and box-ticking, we let Timmy loose on a special stroker that's older than him. Here's what he made of it...

6 mins

WHAT THE TECH: AERODYNAMICS

The black art of aerodynamics is increasingly becoming the key area of development in the search for better lap times, especially in the prototype MotoGP class.

10+ mins

Jeremy McWilliams

Bike racing – it’s a young man’s (or woman’s) game, right? Bashing fairings and heads, trekking round the world, sacrificing every spare minute in a quest to go faster. Demanding complete physical and mental effort at all times.

3 mins

Full zero gas

Sometimes it pays to back off the intensity...but in a structured way.

2 mins

Tim Neave

Sh*t’s about to get real and I’ve never been so excited. We are now only three weeks away (at the time of writing this) from round one of the British Superbike Championship at Silverstone, March 7-9, and my off-season is rapidly drawing to a close.

3 mins

Christian Iddon

That’s Spanish testing complete and I’m on the flight back home. All that remains is a couple of UK tests before the season kicks off for real.

4 mins

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