I’ve got a big problem: I’m scared of riding fast round racetracks. It’s not something I’ve had an issue with in the past and there hasn’t been an obvious trigger event to make me like this, but it’s there. A fluttering voice of doubt in the side

poisoning in a bath still running eight hours later (the hotel room repair bill was £17,000) while Chris Porter from Fast Bikes and I were arrested by Spanish police for stealing a small powerboat and setting off across Barcelona harbour.In 1997 there was a

has a bloody good idea of your velocity.Remember that traffic cops love bikes and going fast themselves. If you were riding well but way too quickly or you were splitting lanes aggressively, an admission of your guilt coupled with a wise head will go a

(“British coppers go mad in Europe”, that kind of thing) and watched a video of last year’s event. It looked fast and right up my street. Doing 100mph down small country roads strewn with gravel and lined with large oak trees racing against the clock

Anyone who knows anything about off-road bikes knows Honda's CRF450 motocrosser is horrifically fast and entirely frightening to ride. Two laps of a track on one is enough to pump your forearms solid and turn your legs to jelly, and the slightest

fast and scary, but doesn't actually posses the skill-set nor patience to learn how to do it. Excuse us for being old-fashioned, but if you're not man enough to ride one of these bikes properly after buying one, go get a scooter instead

Click to read: KTM RC8 owners reviews, KTM RC8 specs and to see the KTM RC8 image gallery.I shouldn’t be here. We have the demonically fast Niall Mackenzie and James Whitham on the test team and instead you get me. Sorry.The thing is, I’ve wanted

, but the resounding outcome seemed to be a ‘yes’. So I looked in the Oxford dictionary, which said that a ‘sport’ is “an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another.” Riding a bike fast on the road certainly

the way up to 220km/h, and the SMT is properly comfortable at all speeds, fast or slow. It’s a bike that can cover ground in sublime comfort, but with lashings of KTM character when the mood takes you. You can tour on it, yes. But you can still go

down to the runway and it's dead quiet in the cockpit, all nice and cosy. Then you're sat on the runway and he hits the afterburners, but it's nothing like as quick as a fast bike. Any bike would murder a Tornado 0-100mph, but all the fast bikes