July 2003I'm hot knifing through the butter of the M25 and I still can't get the figures out of my head. £19.00. 23.77 litres. I'm astonished. I'm astonished I've put so much fuel into a bike. I'm also pleased, as with that tankage I can easily get

it is to enjoy a weekend’s trail riding. All I need now is some new kit to replace my 2000 Honda Alpinestars gear and 1996 body-armour and I’ll be away.November 2008It’s been a tough month on my beloved RMZ250 motocross bike. After a full summer of racing

old Blades from the off, they blossomed earlier and the motor made more power initially.Run them in correctly and the power generally reached a peak point at around 10,000 miles, thrash them from the off and you are talking nearer 4000 miles. So I

at Banjax High Performance (BHP), the only Dynojet-approved dyno dudes in London (0207 377 6333), followed. Setting up the GSR saw a mild transformation in performance - max power is now up 4.1bhp from standard to 90.2bhp at the rear wheel - but a huge

March 2009PARTS ADDED: Contemporary brown seatTOTAL MILEAGE: 1324 milesMILEAGE THIS MONTH: 360 milesCOSTS THIS MONTH: £176.98PURCHASE PRICE: £5400June 2009Coming back to my flat after a hard day in the office last year, to find that the Abus lock I use

cylinder, then its puppy-dog manners and 10,000km service intervals seal the deal.Here is a single that thinks its a twin. A single that, all of a sudden, doesn't have to be just for the people who expect a single to be a bit shit in many areas of its

man to be outbraked. The Suzuki man entered the twiddles section of Turns 12, 13 and 14 first, Elias and Rossi close behind. But Elias had plotted a different attack vector this time round, diving up the inside of Hopkins through the final Turn 14

and the track dried out even more, 1'59 began to beckon. Rossi was the first to crack the 2'00 minute barrier on lap 10, with Pedrosa following two laps later. Still with just a few tenths separating the pair, Rossi cranked up the pressure again, and again

at Donington was to recover some of his confidence, and he got a big chunk of that back on the first lap. Starting from a lowly 17th place on the grid, the reigning 250 world champion was up into 10th by the end of lap 1.As the pack thundered across the line

as the bikes flew off the line. But Lorenzo's outside line round Turns 1 and 2 left him in great position as they entered the short straight heading down to Turn 3. Braking for the third corner, Rossi suddenly found his team mate beside him, and moments later