CONOR Cummins has signed for Northern Ireland’s TAS Racing for the 2012 international road racing season. The Manxman will ride Tyco Suzuki machinery in the Isle of Man TT Races as well as the North West 200 and Ulster Grand Prix.Despite his high

.Yoshimura put the Hayabusa on an extensive weight loss program and, of course, being Yoshimura, upped the power too. The X1 road bike pictured here is said to produce 196bhp at the rear wheel and weigh just 200kg wet - making it more powerful and lighter than a

chamber complete with stinger exhaust and 36-spoke wheels. The frame is hand made by local Amish metal fabricators, that alone is a good talking point.Top speed is 55mph; this bike was made for cruising. The company claim an impressive 70mpg, giving

and the potential to do more than 200mph according to its makers. Although not scheduled to compete just yet, as its primary purpose is a publicity machine for the all-new Indian range to be launched later this year, the Spirit of Munro is a runner and is planned

going motorcycles, to this day it remains the same test - that blur of HM Plant Honda whipping along Sulby Straight at over 200mph, it's much closer to the Fireblade in your local Honda dealer's showroom than you may think.Along the way, as well

for the performance of the 12kw electric motor. And do you know what? It’s fast – like 200cc four-stroke fast. It’s really easy to control as well with peak torque just a flat line from the moment you open the throttle. It took me about twenty seconds to get a feel

into top and heading towards the 300, 200 and 100 metre boards beyond which sits the inviting, greedy gravel trap. In a lap of the Gods, Ducati's MotoGP man Loris Capirossi was hitting 204mph down the straight before whacking on the anchors about 150 metres

it was not going to cost him much more than his £150 excess to get his Honda CX500 motorbike repaired.He said: "There was blood and guts everywhere, but if anyone was to blame for the accident it was the deer - not me. It was dark and I was only going at 50mph on a

Commander we managed to clock a genuine and staggering 200mph back in the Jan ’08 issue. Looks-wise the Hayabusa draws first blood. From every angle the Suzuki looks the business, sleek, curvy and business like. The ZZR looks like a puffy ZX-10R, some like

’ve got bikes like that, but at those sorts of speeds my head begins to melt. I can’t really deal with it. That being the case, why on earth did you buy one of those 200mph MTT jetbikes then?It’s just stupid, but it’s so excessive and such a marvel