and go.The funny thing is, after a while, you get pretty adept at ‘guessing’ what they’re all going to be like to ride. You clock the motor configuration, the dry weight, the rake, trail, wheelbase and claimed power figures and 99.9% of the time riding

but it's incredibly easy to use, with enough low- and mid-range torque for effortless riding no matter what your level of experience.A balancer shaft meant the motor was also very smooth. The Tricker zipped up to 65mph easily enough on the dual

sore after the first few days riding, but you soon get used to it. The gear box is definitely one of the stronger points of this bike. It’s good in town, slick and precise and when filtering I can leave it in 1st of 2nd and the engine doesn’t labour

of over 15 years of riding bikes. Mid-corner isn’t time to give it the ‘big one’, especially when this involves unleashing 180bhp on the rear tyre. But if they can put a man on the moon with less computing power than a TV remote control surely Ducati could

of what was an example of Ducati’s latest piece of engineering excellence, I take a few breathless moments to reflect on how I got here. And it had all been going so well.Indeed, it was an event full of surprises. The first, Ducati’s choice of venue

’s it like to ride? I rode the manual version first that was fitted with the optional top box and panniers. The top box features a VW Pop-Top Camper-style zip open canvas compartment to accommodate an XL full-face lid. Like any hard, square and un

it ‘The Gorbals’ or ‘The Moss Side’ would work quite the same. And the stylish name certainly befits the motorcycle as I stopped dead in my Nikes after clocking it for the first time in the hotel car park the night before the Rome launch.And we may well

announced to the assembled journalists. "If you make a mistake then ride over the curbs and brake on the blue and red tarmac strips."  Somewhere at the back of the room a voice asked the question on everyone's minds. "What if you're sliding?"  "In that case

with this incarnation, though the riding position has been altered quite dramatically. The bars are closer to the rider and slightly higher than the old bike, and they also feel a lot wider. There is a touch more steering lock, vented indents in the airbox section

and features pegs so low a support van of spare foot controls follows me everywhere – but Triumph claim the new T-bird enjoys class-leading dynamics and the handling composure to encourage enthusiastic riding. I don’t doubt them.With Harley-Davidsons as class