After we'd finished frightening ourselves panic braking on ice, gravel, wet cobblestones and sand it was time to test the latest Bosch traction control (TC) as fitted to Aprilia's delicious new V4 Tuono. This is an eight-stage TC system with eight

forearms and makes you crane your neck to see what's coming next (mainly cyclists).The surface was rubbish. Polished-smooth stone chippings, buffed shiny by decades of heavy use, really tested the Pirelli tyres to the max.Only one complaint. Like the VFR800

scooters? Do you care enough about the environment to accept this power source? Is it our duty as motorcyclists to become early adopters of CO2-free scootering?What do we know before we get a fifteen minute test ride? Barcelona City council will take

, like Sochiro Honda, they started by making bicycle parts.I became aware of them last year when we had an MX50Pro on test. My twelve year old son did his best to break this manic, derestricted two stroke 'crosser but it proved to be unburstable. Great

I’ve been testing this Drift 170 camera for the past few days. I also took it on the recent Portimao Maxxis tyre launch where I managed to sneak it onto Gary Mason’s Kawasaki Superbike.We’ve been using the GoPro HD set-up for over a year now

With a race track that's neither fully wet, nor fully dry all we can test in the first of the three sessions on the 900R is tooth grinding and breath holding. The R runs different mapping to the standard Nuda and a tooth off the gearbox sprocket

this isn’t a magazine shoot-out group test where there must be a winner in order to create an attention-grabbing headline. I’ve just spent three weeks with the Tiger SE and I’m a convert because it does so much, so well.The Tiger is the sort of bike you

and, it has to be said, confidence. Damn it’s plush and comfy, though.In fact dodging in and out of traffic queues on the way to the job highlights another KTM trait that takes a little getting used to – fuelling. The part-throttle fuelling manners

travel Marzocchi front forks, race-style plastic and a seat height up in the clouds.  Time for a test ride.The track (the circuit, not the bike), if you can call it that, was hardly ideal for a bike on knobblies, but it did let me get a feel

are used by race teams worldwide.All the alloy components are being machined by small Leicestershire company Promach. (The late great Dave Jefferies would not use anybody else's rearsets for his TT campaigns). Promach undertake a lot of one-off development