.9% of the time you're not getting it wrong.Knowing you've got a safety measure in place that you don't have to think about allows you to relax and get more out of the bike. You won't find many people prepared to admit it, but plenty of people ride their litre-class

-trodden path into road-racing; starting on a PW50 aged 5, he won his first junior motocross championship on a PW80 aged 12. He then made the switch to road racing, from 125s to 600s and after a few seasons, he jumped up to the Superbike class on a BMW S1000RR

slice of that market sector. As yet no bike in this sector fitted road wheels and tyres has sold nearly as well as those with real off-road ability, but with the potential to be the most powerful machine in the class by some margin, the new Ducati

reasonably expected. An additional 100cc might not sound like a big deal, but the 848 was ruled out of competing in the Supersport class and since then it's always been the odd one stood in the corner of the 600 supersport party.Strange how, at 849cc - just

after scoring a podium at Oulton Park.The event features a host of support class action including the Motorpoint British Supersport Championship protected by Datatag and the Metzeler National Superstock 1000 and 600 Championships, plus you can meet

licence, it was raining so hard I had to avoid a couple of swans on the racing line..I'd only really tried the traction control on dry tracks: Losail, Qatar and Cartagena, Spain so I was really interested to know how it would cope on a wet circuit

modes and the option of KIBS, Kawasaki's ABS system, the ZX-10R is packed with the latest technology and spoiling for a fight with the litre superbike class leaders.The first thing you notice about the ZX-10R is how small it is. A ZXR400 was the first

in the evening before the race and handing out a whole range of prizes for the best riders of the weekend.The classes couldn't be simpler: 600s and 1000s and that's it. Everyone runs on Michelin Power One competition treaded tyres or slicks. If it's raining (and

are they going to becoming from?There is no clear answer to that! Every time we have tried to work out where they are coming from, you realise that people make big changes across different styles of bikes and not just similar bikes in a set class. So we find

to sell more bikes in this class, it’s versatility not unpaved road performance that really counts.That versatility presents itself in many ways, from the less off-road biased wheel sizes (19/17 as opposed to the 21/18 on the 990), to the 23-litre tank (19