place and at over three miles a lap it takes some learning, too.Thankfully, the new Speed Triple is the perfect tool to learn such a technical, fast and undulating track. It's got masses of torque, sweet fuelling and perfectly predictable manners.It's a

of ambient temperature,  thick mist and the after effects of overnight rain – grip is even harder to find.So, it was a brave place for MVAgusta to launch their new F4 sports bike to a mixture of assembled press, dealers and prospective customers. I nipped

into form as it screams towards peak torque at 10,000rpm and peak power at 11,000. The Magneti Marelli fuel injection system is nicely mapped. On a wet, greasy pot-hole infested public road this is as noticeable as at the apex of Gerards, just when you

is pared to the bone and what weight there is, is in the right place to achieve  that tricky combination of handling balance. Personally I don’t care if the exhaust system is made from .2mm thinner wall tubing. I don’t care if the headlight is .4grammes

the actual bike doesn’t really come as much of a surprise.But this was not the case with Jenny Tinmouth’s championship winning Team Agni electric racer. Yes it uses a GSX-R600 Suzuki rolling chassis but after that my guess-ometer was all over the place

of those embarrassing falling-in-over-in-petrol-forecourt incidents. And because the heavily sculpted tank swoops around your knees, when you’re on the bike it really does feel like you’re in it – part of it. Our track and road test ride was dry but you

slider, power on, tuck in for the straight. It just means there’s less to think about other than placing the bike where you want – perfect for this road that saps all your forward-planning capabilities.The climb over Shap’s 1300 foot summit saps the RSV

handfuls of throttle so Honda's claimed improvement of  'up to 25% throttle performance' was less relevant and largely unnoticed because the time spent at less than quarter throttle was markedly less.So what about the other changes? The dash? The lighter

time, especially when we upped the pace a bit. The poorly surfaced, shiny roads may not have been the best place to check out Metzeler’s Tourance EXP tyres (17in rear, 19in front) but it did let me try out Triumph’s ABS and traction control a few times

.So for our generation of arthritic, myopic pile-sufferers (thankfully not me, just yet) we need something different. A Crossover - road orientated, off-road styled street bike. Clearly, BMW knew this some time ago.But the ubiquitous BMW is a twin, with its