stopped working and I was getting way, way too sideways on the way into turns as I banged down through the gears and kept running wide. After a lap I kind of got used to riding around it until it caught me out big time on lap 11, where I had a massive

After an extremely average result of 7th at Croft with a broken collarbone, I wasn't going to let a good result slip away. Practice saw me in 10th, which I wasn't bothered about really I just wanted to bang out some laps and get happy with the track

very safe, as it massages your abilities, which for me is a big plus.In summary then, it pulls great from low revs, smooth power delivery, fantastic anti hopping clutch, good brakes, extremely secure feeling cornering/handling, seems pretty similar

A few months ago I was banging on about observation and the vast amount of information we are able to take in and use, in order to make our progress through Croydon just that little bit safer.As highly evolved binocular animals our vision has

, 5 x big 4 x 4's and parked all around us. These were the only rude people we met all week, wankers wouldn't even say hello, they were fucking banging and crashing until 10:30 that night and up doing it again at 6 the next morning. I was seriously

.Regular readers of these articles (ie. if you read the other one) will know that I was previously utterly unprepared and bikeless with the start of the season fast approaching. However, and rather uncharacteristically, I did actually manage to pull my finger out