The Japanese manufacturers have been trying to build soul into their bikes for years. Looks like they managed it...

Takegawa are a company based on Osaka, Japan. They make so many hop-up parts for small Honda engines that it's possible to build a brand new, complete engine from their catalogue using no Honda parts at all. Four valve heads, double overhead

It's not often I get mistaken for anybody, especially somebody famous. Someone did mistake me for the athlete Mark Forsyth once but obviously that was a telephone mistake, I'm hardly the build for hurdles.However, I've never been mistaken for a

graphically, is the sort of vantage point that fries your head. It's just before the 13th milestone and is approached after a long downhill section that builds up all the way from the end of Cronk y Voddy straight. You'll have to park up at the Barregarroo