Fancy a Chinese? I do. Well, let me put it this way: in a couple of years I reckon I might.Y'see, China is getting into motorcycles big time. And in the next few years I'll put a large bet down that they will be building the sort of bikes you or I

of an 'it or me' moment. I commiserated with the poor sod, before parting with £1,200 for the bike and bits. Considering an average condition runner would have set me back £2,200 privately, I was happy.Continue Project ZX-7R

BIKE:1926 Indian Scout"This machine is over 80 years old, but it's interesting to wonder what's actually original! When you first ride this bike it's awful. Rigid, uncomfortable and different to anything else you've ever ridden, but when you take

're at the utter limit of physical and mental endurance."For us pit-stops take about 13 seconds from start to finish. That means the bike's fully fuelled, front and rear wheels are changed as is the rider. It's quite an art and is amazing to watch the guys do

MANPS 1058 Robin Marshall, Peterborough-based Cambridgeshire Constabulary bike cop."It's great being able to mix your job with the pleasure of riding a motorcycle. I don't know any bike cop who doesn't love riding! To do it you have to pass

or she'd divorce me, but luckily she realises this is important to me so I'm back for 2008, which will be the 30th anniversary of the Dakar."This year I spent 16-hours with just the bike for company after it had broken down. I was wrapped in one of those

Scooters will succeed bikes as the planet's two-wheeler of choiceWhy don't we love scooters? When I say 'we' I mean 'we' the British at large, 'we' the motorcycling fraternity and 'we' the poor, down-trodden working masses. I know I'm frothing about

, and I'm leaving the office and heading in the complete opposite of the magnetic compass direction I desire to be following. One thing we do have are bikes that should work almost as well in the rain as they should in the shine: the BMW K1200LT, Honda GL

that they had to change mainly for the environment’s sake, but the kick-back for you and I was that this new era of super four-strokes would be test-beds for new kit for our roadbikes. So six years on, has MotoGP really brought road bikes on in a way

Let me see now. Ten years ago British biking was on the verge of something big. Our bike buying trends were going to be challenged by a bug-eyed kid from Yamaha - the TDM850. It promised the kind of handling and performance that would be useful