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Taking a moment to ensure that two plus two is indeed four. It’s 4:00 am and my coma-like sleep is interrupted by the thunderous tone of my alarm clock. I stir, and slowly start my robotic-like movements. It is the 8th morning like this and each day gets a little harder to wake up. I know what I have to do, just crawl out of my sleeping bag and put on my riding clothes, then pack up my tent, get on my bike and head to the starting gate.

In part one we gave each test rider the opportunity to put in their two cents about the scoot that they had picked up and were effectively in charge of. In part two, let’s take a closer look at how the scoots stacked up against each other.

There’s not much that isn’t to like about Yamaha’s inline 1300cc motor. It winds up like a sportbike when you want to get fruity, but chugs along all day on the meaty torque if you’re just in happy-to-tour mode.

With the 2006 Dakar Rally kicking off at the end of this month, we thought it might be a good idea to take a more in-depth look at not only one rider’s experience of doing the Rally, but also a bit about the rider himself.

His Royal Editorship claims to not like track sessions (even though he gets around pretty well) so he asked if I’d mind writing up the track bits on the 1000 while he handled the street riding.

Ian Chadwick talks about his Kawasaki vertical twin.

Badged as a 2003, the VTX1300S just went on sale in Canada, filling the void left by the discontinuation of the VT1100C3 Aero. At a quick glance it looks almost exactly like the big VTX1800S, but the differences between the two are profound.

It must be frustrating for Honda when most of the press are defining the 2002 954 as a made-over and over-bored 929.

I remember when the EX500 first came out. The press were excited about this 500cc twin that was "half a Ninja" - the motor being based on just two of the cylinders of the then current four cylinder 1000cc.

Yamaha has answered the demands of the growing cruiser market with its 3 level "Star" series. The V-Star is the most economical level, with its 650 and 1100 models. Following this is the torquey Road Star, which is available as the Road Star 1600, Road Star MM Limited and Road Star Silverado.