to perfection. For other blind, old, late forties (target customer) people, you can't miss the dazzling blue LED lights. The rest of a lap of Portimao is all about riding a torque curve on feel alone while you feel for grip. This, the new Blade does as well

. Portimao is full of blind entry corners as well as several tight hairpins, the perfect combination to test out the Triumph’s front end security.Steaming into the bends the level of feedback and assurance delivered by the forks and Pirelli tyres

tiny 15-litre fuel tank. This puts the SMR’s range at a woefully short 70 miles.We were lucky enough to ride the SMR on the twisting Portuguese roads and the infamous Portimao circuit just 45 minutes from Faro. I have to admit to being pathetically out

comes in and we're stuck with it, what now?The Future?Out in Portimao, on a Bridgestone S20 tyre launch, there was one bike in the pits that wasn't getting a lot of love: the 2012 R1. It was a French model, restricted to 106bhp.I had to have a go

with Bridgestone's new S20 tyres. They're not as track focused as Pirelli's Supercorsa SP but they're still round, black and stick like a good'un.What I love about the Daytona 675 is its size and its riding position. It's small, narrow and easy to flick between