-post or other piece of street furniture and become another headline in the local press.One rider I spoke to recently offered the argument that bikers are rebels and are expected to be a little outside the law. After all, for many of us, the freedoms offered us

to 30,000 motorcycling enthusiasts annually. This year there will be a big, outdoor screen showing coverage of the British Moto GP at Donington Park, so you can see all the weekend's biking action in one place.Headlining in the Arena for 2007 are the UK

's qualifying pole time from this year's GP.And (get this) he was also faster than Rossi on the same day! To me, this is hugely significant. In terms of news value, however, it was Rossi who grabbed all the headlines. The message from all this is clear enough

another broken bone - his kneecap.Repsol might have chosen better wording for their official announcement of this fact. The news was conveyed under the headline "Breaking News".Britain's shame in racing is that talented young riders like Bradley have to go

was simply its timing.Normally a debut superbike from a top Italian marque would create massive headlines, but the RSV’s unveiling the previous year had been overshadowed by Yamaha’s new YZFR1 and the equally stunning 750 F4 from reborn MV Agusta. Worse still

Massimo Tamburini might have been grabbing the headlines in 1995, none of his work would have made it out of the factory’s gates had it not been for the genius of Miguel Galluzzi and his incredible foresight.Using his philosophy that all a motorcycle

this isn’t a magazine shoot-out group test where there must be a winner in order to create an attention-grabbing headline. I’ve just spent three weeks with the Tiger SE and I’m a convert because it does so much, so well.The Tiger is the sort of bike you

, we’ve mentioned cigarette sponsorship already, but no apologies for adding another fag-inspired bike.Norton’s F1 road bike made lots of headlines back in 1990 but production numbers were tiny and despite the racing success of its rotary engine

The sportsbike market is a battleground between manufacturers all trying to prise the cash from your hands. Every year the one-upmanship takes on new heights as every new model tries to better the current market leader by grabbing the headlines

-slippery aerodynamics. All this saw the Honda bat through the timing lights 3mph faster than the ZZ-R. Hmmm, an improvement but not as earth-shattering as the 200mph hype headlines before the bike's release had suggested.But Honda had started the top speed ball rolling