Evening All,Whit here, live from the launch of the 2010 MV Agusta F4 1000 - a 186bhp 998cc inline-four, with a revised chassis and electronics package, including an eight-stage traction control system. Although the bike looks almost the same

If you’re bike’s over three years old, then you’ll be subjected to the annual ordeal of the MOT test. It’s always a pretty worrying time of year, but it needn’t be if you look after your bike and know what to expect. By following these simple steps

on the road. And a bike that gave you magic-carpet comfort on a bumpy road would handle like a Vespa with a flat tyre if you took it on track.Read on for James Whitham's verdict of the MV Agusta F4How MV made big changes to the F4 without losing its good looks

VISORDOWN'S James Whitham is out in Spain testing the new MV Agusta F4 1000 and has declared the 2010 machine 'a total transformation' over the previous model.Speaking after his first road ride, Whit told Visordown HQ:"It's absolutely brilliant

of the light brigade and Whacky Races...but with more smoke!An old mechanic of mine, Nigel was out there looking after some of the best of the bikes, among those in his care was an NS 500 Honda being ridden by the aforementioned Freddie. As me and Nige were

, and do look good.I've been getting involved a bit with big Rob McElnea in a bike shop called Macsport Motorcycles, in Brackley, and we've been busy putting some old bikes in the window. I've got an immaculate 1975 RD250 and a similar Fizzie and they

, it didn’t look as impressive as I thought it would, but from the saddle I felt like a drift champion.There are loads of little signs to let you know when you’re getting old. You know, like when you see a 10-year-old with a mobile phone and you can’t help

Fitting a chain and sprocket set is a necessary evil as time and the good old British weather takes it toll on your final drive. It’s also a great way to improve the looks of your bike or to alter the overall gearing to suit your riding. And it

to and said I’d have it, even though I only had his word for the condition and had no idea whether or not I was getting my arse slapped on the price he wanted.As it turned out he was truly a man of his word. This thing was 55 years old but looked like it

Sometimes it’s difficult as a child to fully appreciate some of the things you get to witness. I remember like it was yesterday sitting on a packed grassy banking at Glen Helen in the Isle of Man with my old fella and watching the 1978 formula one