really well and in particular braking and entering corners is particularly good due to the way the front suspension works - there's no dive, and the steering is fantastically neutral.With a conventional front end and forks, when you arrive at the corner

on a completely personal and selfish level. When I got into biking all it was, was about fun. If I ended up getting to B from A via C, then that was a bonus.I believe it's only when you have a big smack and float close to death that you can really grasp

through some of the best mountain scenery in the world -- roads perfect for a motorcyclist. I am haunted, addicted, and enslaved by the roads veining these valleys, threading around these great peaks. I ride as many of them as I can, as often as I can

to every kind of lock up you can imagine from police cells, to 'ecure units', Detention Centres, Youth Offenders Centre's (or Borstals in old money) and prisons; and although the use of birching and other forms of corporal punishment ended before I entered

Olivier Jacque's crash in China should end MotoGP's spell there, for the time being. But due to market forces and a traditionally blasé view on safety from the promoters, I fear it won't.The circuit is an F1 standard facility, which means it has a

-trained ones either. I can honestly say that I don't know one end of a spanner from the other, unless it's now considered de rigeur to refer to the two ends as 'the round end' and 'the normal end'.But I have a secret weapon in that respect at least - a good

. The latest GSX-R1000, is quicker through the 1/4 mile than the 'Busa, faster off the line and will pull to the limiter in top, leaving the 'Busa behind. For me, that marks the end of the mighty Hayabusa's significance. It can no longer claim to be the fastest

the potential to be pretty excellent but only if used effectively. Being able to see 10MB a second is only useful if you put yourself in a good position. While you are sitting 10ft off the bumper of the transit with painted windows, the 10MB you can see

head down to go for a couple of quick laps. At the end of the session I was 9th. I didn't think I was going to make the race, but Darren Roberts from the Red Bull team gave me a few pointers, i.e not wearing the shoulder brace, and he helped a lot as I

to see how well your brakes work in the wet, or how far you can push it - this session was my favourite of the whole day!!! What did I get from the day? Well, I enjoyed the new bike in a way I'm not able to on a road, and I don't mean balls out top end