I've struggled with my Honda hard luggage over the past few months, I have to admit. To much office hilarity (and piss taking) I managed to lose the top box just a few miles from the office. I thought the locating mechanism was fastened securely

1. Top boxAt eleven times the cubic capacity of a V6 Ford Capri (that’s 33-litres kids), this bad boy will swallow any helmet. Like the panniers this locks and unlocks using the bike’s ignition key. Top box mounts onto a cast aluminium rack2

with its new top box handled like a ferry boat, loaded, as it was, with a fidgeting 13 year-old boy and panniers (and top box) full of three days’ worth of detritus. Dunlop Roadsmarts continue to impress me, though, especially in the pissing rain.We arrived

line.Here's that list in detail:Ohlins FGR 800 Forks - latest spec & recently serviced OhlinsTTX Rear Shock OhlinsSide Mounted Steering DamperBillet Brembo 2 pad pinless mono bloc calipers (top spec pre-lithium)Staubli Dry Brake Couplings (Front & Rear

’t faze it either.Top marks for the revised screen and mirrors that give you a great view of what’s behind.But for me the best mod Kawasaki have made is the new rear rubber engine mount. The vibes now don’t find their way through the bars and pegs like

, these things accelerate so fast through the gears that your left foot can barely keep up. Given the right (or the wrong) conditions it will flip you over backwards in top gear. Brilliant.I shot this video shortly after flipping it over backwards in second gear

speed balance and control is amplified by the leverage from those wide bars and low footrests and the pillion gets a degree of wind protection from the rider because they’re not balanced on top, jockey-style, as absurd as most pillions look on the back

to make the highly visible bits more appealing. The top handlebar mount is a good example of this. Nice casting, aye?Weirdly, it uses the traditional Triumph logo not the revised one as seen on the tank. Logo/brand confusion...Forget the logos. The heart

’s it like to ride? I rode the manual version first that was fitted with the optional top box and panniers. The top box features a VW Pop-Top Camper-style zip open canvas compartment to accommodate an XL full-face lid. Like any hard, square and un

EngineOh my life. For decades BMW make bikes that my Dad has always wanted and then this. Straight out of the box, 182.8bhp at the back wheel and with the manners of a saint. Where did that come from?Ignore the spikes at the top of the curve, that