degree of fore and aft weight pitch but use it to the tyre's advantage and it's a very satisfying bike to ride hard, up and down twisty roads. I found the on-off, small throttle opening fuelling quite savage - enough for me to feather the clutch a bit

With a race track that's neither fully wet, nor fully dry all we can test in the first of the three sessions on the 900R is tooth grinding and breath holding. The R runs different mapping to the standard Nuda and a tooth off the gearbox sprocket

.So for our generation of arthritic, myopic pile-sufferers (thankfully not me, just yet) we need something different. A Crossover - road orientated, off-road styled street bike. Clearly, BMW knew this some time ago.But the ubiquitous BMW is a twin, with its

-end is clean you get the sensation when riding it that everything is loaded in the middle to upper reaches of the power curve. This is fine in the leggy top gear (7% taller) when road conditions allow 90-plus riding, but below this you find yourself shifting

was full of excitement himself. After numerous operations to save his left lower leg after the disastrous accident at Silverstone last summer, Hutchy is at Cadwell to ride his right-shift R1 Superstocker for the very first time.‘No. I’m not,’ I replied

' new.Having ridden the rival’s offerings first it was clear to the Triumph design team from the offset that it wasn’t going to be possible to pluck an engine from the existing range and adapt it for use in the new adventure bike. Torque and power