and anti-tampering is being proposed. It's not entirely out the question that a horsepower limit could come into effect sometime in the future, afterall, the Health & Safety trend these days is to protect us from ourselves. So let's assume a 100bhp limit

That's 97kg INCLUDING oil and waterFRENCH SPECIAL builder Tucson has unveiled its Aprilia V-twin-powered 97kg sportsbike. The Tucson BT550 Superleggera tips the scales at just 97kg and that figure INCLUDES all fluids except fuel. The machine

THE 100BHP limit in France is due to be revoked.A vote in the EU parliament has opposed the French 100bhp limit which was introduced in 1985 as a bizarre way to try and cut motorcycle accidents. France is the only EU member state to apply the 100bhp

to bear them on until daylight breaks, and the approach of the race's end. Le Mans is a racing legend, as big as Assen, Monza, and Indianapolis.Though the French Grand Prix takes place at a legendary location, it does not use the legendary Circuit de la

BMW wants us to know their new R1200S is very much a sports bike. But by whose reckoning? Theirs or ours? Sporting all-sorts go to the Alps to find out. And not a race track in sight...There's more to motorcycling than sports bikes, but here

budget for the bikes in this test I was amazed at the gems we uncovered. A call to D&K Motorcycles, one of the largest second-hand dealers in the UK, soon provided an absolutely mint 2002-model Aprilia RSV, a very tidy 2001 Honda FireBlade with a few

rather heavy bikes, sometimes they haven't gone round corners very well, but Kawasaki's always make lots of horsepower and go extremely fast. And that is, after all, what motorcycles are supposed to do.So when they launched their new GTR1400 super

to host Formula 1 in China. The requirements of Formula 1 and motorcycle racing are mostly diametrically opposed: Formula 1 cars require wide tracks with long straights for passing at speed, with sharp turns at the end to allow cars to outbrake each other

that we're coming through, and the ever-obliging, bike-mad French motorists part like the Red Sea as we sweep, Moses-like, through turn after turn of high speed sportsbike nirvana. Having been on the road for five hours since we got off the ferry in Le

enough intimidation for you to consider 180mph motorcycles an unacceptable threat to your driving licence. Or perhaps marital pressures have been applied and a pillion seat the size of a Brillo pad is no longer appealing. Sometimes, something has to give