For me, fast road riding has never been about on the limit braking, knee down action or the rear tyre wiggling while nailing the throttle on a corner exit. I’ve always liked to save that stuff for the track and, if the truth be known, be it lack

,000 all you have to do is stick it in 6th and hold a good speed. 600s take skill to actually ride fast. Holding a good line, selecting the right gear for acceleration and, above all, reading the road are the hardest things to do well. But they make riding

are only as fast as you want them to be, but the simple fact is you can't ride bikes like these for a few weeks of the year and expect to be anywhere near the money on them. Kid yourself you can and you'll be a bonnet ornament before summer's out.But making

select sixth gear at 20mph and ride them like a twist and go. But you still have to be careful, and being lazy with the throttle in high gears can catch you out on a modern 1000cc bike.Ron Haslam calls it 'chasing the throttle'. It's when you crack

on the speedo on straight bits of road. It's about riding properly, smoothly, seriously fast.And we're not talking about joining a handful of corners together on the way home from work. We're talking about reading the road, the conditions and the traffic just so

in the MD250 support race. The event is open to riders as young as 12.Lenz died after falling on the warm-up lap and getting struck by another competitor. “Thirteen is too young to be riding such fast bikes,” said Rossi, who was busy with minibikes

MOTORCYCLE RACING can be proud of Mervyn Whyte, even though this may be the first time you've heard of him, his hard work has been noted by way of an MBE.Whyte has served the Motorcycle Union of Ireland for 25 years and was awarded an MBE for his services to motorcycle racing in ...

and on the left on the roundabout itself. Sticking to the left can put you right in the diesel riding through the roundabout, while being too eager to overtake slower traffic on the way  out can land you in trouble with the debris that builds up in the middle

One man's fast is another man's slow. If you posted a lap of Donington good enough to put you on the third row of a MotoGP grid your mates wouldn't hear the end of it, but Rossi would be gutted. For some cracking the ton is enough; for others that

I’ve got a big problem: I’m scared of riding fast round racetracks. It’s not something I’ve had an issue with in the past and there hasn’t been an obvious trigger event to make me like this, but it’s there. A fluttering voice of doubt in the side