While we are at best weeks away from being able to throw a leg over one and possibly months away from being able to test ride one I thought I’d throw together a bit of a desktop review. Take it from a long term Hyper owner who has a love/hate relationship with his bike – a number …
There are three new models in the family, all featuring a new Testastretta 11°, L-Twin cylinder, 4 valve per cylinder, Desmodromic, liquid cooled power plant. The Hypermotard The Hypermotard SP and probably most interesting of all the Hyperstrada (we picked the name, they listened!). Hypermotard Hyperstrada Without much to go on, not enough caffeine and …
That is a stunning ride. More hairpins for breakfast, ahh no better way to wake up. The best thing about the roads in the Snowy mountians are the road surfaces and their yellow lines. Okay that’s two things but I like both of them. Most of the roads are very well kept and have great …
I‘ve also driven it in a cage just for kicks; it’s an amazing road that cuts right alongside the edge of a cliff. On one side you have a sheer rock face and the other nothing. Just certain death if you go down. All three of us were keen to see what kind of condition …
Seriously these photos are embarrassing, and don’t do the bike any justice, but I was caught out without my proper camera and have to share what some serious coin will get you in a hand made Italian super-trick wild pony. Can you remember the first time you saw the Hypermotard? I can. It stopped me …
The engine is there with these explosions going off inside of him causing him to vibrate and carry on. That carry on translates through the drive line in rotational force and the rotational force if not smoothed out would be….well…..rough. The flywheel serves as a smoothing device for the inertia generated by the engine. …
Crash protection on a naked usually takes form in the way of sliders. Frame sliders and axle sliders being the most common. The good old Oggy Knob has become synonymous with most bikers at least knowing of them. I’m hoping that some simple axle sliders can really take the sting out of long down times …