SPORTS Bike Reviews
New riders
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LEXMOTO LXR 125 (2021-on)
New price: £2,800Used price: £2,700- 125cc
- 12.5 bhp
- Medium seat height
When you consider the low price tag, it is hard to complain too much
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HONDA CBR1000RR-R FIREBLADE (2020-on)
New price: £19,999Used price: £11,900 - £14,200- 1000cc
- 201 bhp
- 41 mpg
- Medium seat height
Revvy, hard, demanding, the uncompromising Blade is focused on going very fast… but as a race rep, isn’t that the point?
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DUCATI SUPERLEGGERA V4 (2020-on)
New price: £86,000- 998cc
- 221.2 bhp
- Medium seat height
Ducati’s all-new Superleggera V4 is the fastest, most powerful and most advanced production bike the Bologna factory has produced. But all that loveliness comes at a cost; eighty-six grand to be precise…
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DUCATI 749 (2003-2007)
New price: N/AUsed price: £4,500- 748cc
- 116 bhp
- 43 mpg
- Low seat height
Preferred by some to the larger 999 series – and for good reason
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TRIUMPH SPEED TRIPLE 1200 RR (2022-2024)
New price: N/AUsed price: £13,900 - £15,500- 1160cc
- 178 bhp
- 45 mpg
- Medium seat height
A mouth-watering middle ground between a full-on superbike and super naked
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YAMAHA R3 (2019-on)
New price: £6,400Used price: £4,800 - £5,700- 321cc
- 41.4 bhp
- 74.3 mpg
- Low seat height
Yamaha’s new YZF-R3 mixes practicality with usable performance
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DUCATI PANIGALE V4S (2020-2021)
New price: N/AUsed price: £17,000 - £18,400- 1103cc
- 205 bhp
- Tall seat height
Traction control tweaks and addition of extra race riding modes for 2021 are aimed squarely at the trackday rider in a bid to make controlling this fiery superbike that bit easier
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YAMAHA R1 (2009-2011)
New price: N/AUsed price: £7,700- 998cc
- 179 bhp
- 40 mpg
- Medium seat height
Best of all it sounds just like Rossi's M1 at full chat
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HONDA CBR125R (2011-2019)
New price: N/AUsed price: £3,400- 124cc
- 13.1 bhp
- 88 mpg
- Medium seat height
Hugely popular learner sports that's easy to ride, comfortable, gives good fuel economy and, above all, is a Honda
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KAWASAKI ZX-7R (1996-2003)
New price: N/AUsed price: £4,000- 748cc
- 123 bhp
- 42 mpg
- Medium seat height
Proof that a motorcycle doesn't have to be the latest, lightest and most powerful to be popular
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DUCATI 959 PANIGALE (2016-2020)
New price: N/AUsed price: £8,000 - £10,500- 955cc
- 157 bhp
- Medium seat height
Forget the exhausts…Ducati has saved the ‘baby Panigale from extinction
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APRILIA RS125 (1995-2012)
New price: N/AUsed price: £4,000- 125cc
- 15 bhp
- 40 mpg
- Medium seat height
Delicious, delicate and demanding, Aprilia’s RS is the shouty, temperamental and ridiculously talented alpha male of 125s
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SUZUKI GSX-R125 (2017-on)
New price: £4,799Used price: £4,600- 124cc
- 14.8 bhp
- 122 mpg
- Medium seat height
The GSX-R125 offers the perfect introduction to the world of sports bikes
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DUCATI SUPERSPORT (2021-on)
New price: £12,295- 937cc
- 108 bhp
- 46 mpg
- Medium seat height
Ducati's latest SuperSport 950 is still an exciting road-going alternative to an obscenely cramped and powerful pure race rep
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LANGEN TWO STROKE (2022-on)
New price: £35,280- 249cc
- 74 bhp
- Medium seat height
It’ll make any two-stroke fan’s heart skip a beat… Or two!
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DUCATI 899 PANIGALE (2013-2016)
New price: N/AUsed price: £8,800 - £9,500- 898cc
- 148 bhp
- 40 mpg
- Medium seat height
The 899 Panigale makes you dizzy with excitement, not sick with superbike fear
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DUCATI 1299 PANIGALE (2015-2017)
New price: N/A- 1285cc
- 196 bhp
- 35 mpg
- Medium seat height
Monster power and torque, but now more user-friendly than ever
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DUCATI 916 (1994-1998)
New price: N/AUsed price: £10,000- 916cc
- 109 bhp
- Medium seat height
Sex sells, and the 916 was a two-wheeled Lothario
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KAWASAKI ZX-10R (2021-on)
New price: £15,799Used price: £10,000 - £15,300- 998cc
- 200 bhp
- 46 mpg
- Medium seat height
Refined and improved with the help of six-times WSB champion Jonathan Rea
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YAMAHA YZF-R125 (2019-2022)
New price: N/A- 125cc
- 14.8 bhp
- 135 mpg
- Medium seat height
Third generation YZF R125 is much more than just a facelift