bigger screen. You don't get much of a re-style, but as this is my first real experience of riding a BMW I'm quite looking forward to it.The motor's a raspy-sounding twin with a real bit of character. It makes good power from 4,000rpm through to a shade

-laden with wives and luggage, or go respectably loopy once you get to your destination on the other side of the planet and scrape seven shades out of the footpegs. Honda quite rightly recognise that just because someone buys a bike for touring on, it doesn't mean

as many laps as usual to their own economy drive, achieved by saving track time.Stoner was fastest, Rossi a shade slower: the Ozzie Groaner ran a time of 2:01.043 – 1.716 seconds faster than his best time of last year. That’s an improvement of 1

direction, wobbling, swearing and generally looking like a pillock in my helmet and shades. Brad probably gets somebody to do that bit for him. I wonder if he scorched his right calf the instant he got on. I managed it within seconds.I don’t have the luxury

-shirts, designer shades, tragic hair-styles and so on.So it was unfortunate, when his team was launched in Spain, that the English-language information pack had been translated directly. In Spanish, if you talk about ‘the queen class’ of racing, it quite clearly

we reached the circuit to find ten RSV Milles lined up in the sunshine outside the pit garages. Alongside each one was a factory mechanic in red shirt and shades, with spanners and screwdrivers at the ready to fine-tune the RSV

racing,” he thundered. It’s harder to say that about Randy, but I’m guessing Casey will find a way.Japan Inc will come back fighting, after being put in the technical shade by little Ducati. Pedrosa’s Honda already passed Stoner’s Desmo in a straight line

, but more torque. This makes it as much at home bobbing down a country lane or cruising up the avenue with your shades on. No dramas either from the five-speed gearbox - both its ratios and operation feel exactly right.I'm not so sure it would be up to a 50

jeans, wallet on a chain, wraparound shades and an open faced helmet into a whole world of the completely unexpected. He's not a bad rider - far from it. I'd say he was one of only a handful of riders I'd go pillion with - but a Fireblade is about a

..." Neil Frow"...In case you hadn't noticed, these days they have signs warning of their presence, they are almost all in full view and all of them are painted a fetching shade of yellow. They're a piece of piss to spot, and if you get done by them, you