The reason the VFR1200 looks European is no coincidence. The design team was headed up by Teofilo Plaza, a Spaniard based in Italy. ‘I like to think of this bike as a Porsche, 911’ Plaza told me. ‘It has every day practicality -– capable

EngineThings start to get lively with the F4 at 6,000rpm. It pulls cleanly below this point but at six grand, stuff happens at an alarming rate. At eight there’s a slight hiccup and the power flattens off for a few hundred revs before kicking back into form as it screams towards ...

It may not be the catchiest title for a body of people but the European Parliament's Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) might be a title you should try and remember.This innocuously titled outfit has just voted through

.There’s no leaking nuclear reactor near Huddersfield, no contaminated drinking water, no leaching agricultural fertilisers,No, it’s all natural. Well, sort of.This is one of two European Giant Rabbits, owned by the Whitham family and here is the largest being

cheaper and probably a lot more entertaining.New bikes? Most of the action was on the Big H’s stand. Firstly there was the chance to view their new VFR1200F in the flesh (the whole reason we’re here in the first place). It looks really European, possibly

engine is extremely difficult and almost impossible.What is an average age of a 2012 Fireblade customer?Around 40What was the age of a Fireblade customer back in 1992?It was around 25 I think... European customers have been getting steadily olderOf all

compressed-air powered road drill across an ice rink. Not pleasant.But, and it’s a BUT the size of J-Lo’s, there are some grizzly things happening in the European motorcycle market at the moment. Check out a graph of European car road deaths and the gentle

?). The performance of the Maxxis Sport Radial took some getting used to but this is my verdict:For a tyre that aims to be at least 20% cheaper than its European competitors, its behaviour even in these extreme circumstances was impressive.It's not outright edge

on the subject. It hurt. At that speed, friction ensures that you get very, very hot.Enough of that.Bosch - the makers of some of the smallest, lightest and fastest processing ABS hardware - invited thirty European hacks (and me) to their test facility near

to their own classWhat rival brands do you admire?I think Ducati have been really adventurous and I applaud them for that. They’ve been braveDo you see the Japanese tightening their belts and see opportunity for Triumph?Absolutely, yes. In the European