comfortable than a sports bike and big wide bars make holding a line on rough typical British country lanes easy. Think SuperMoto position crossed with SuperBike Power.Power is as much as you'll ever need and likes to wheelie.Good handgrab bars for a pilion

-size-fits-all tyre for the typical British sportsbike rider who racks up a couple of thousand miles and a couple of trackdays a year.If you’re a fast road-rider and looking for a tyre that’ll offer excellent grip, I’d highly recommend the Metzeler Sportec M5 Interact

on this bike ever since I first saw it at a show last September. If it went half as well as it looked then it was going to be very special. Then I interviewed one of the test riders during the development story we ran a few issues ago, who told me it did

as well as the wrecked piston from the dropped valve that ruined Chris Walker's chances of the 2000 British Superbike title. I was in the capable hands of Alan Cook, who was going to give my bike a first service and whack on a Yoshimura Tri-Oval titanium

decade or more ago this was the latest 'big thing', a machine which made the likes of the FireBlade and R1 also-rans. Its 988cc motor produced more power than the opposition, the chassis handled like a pukka 750 superbike and the looks were very GSX

-piece handlebar is slightly raised and long enough to encourage a slightly leant-forward riding position. The Griso felt quite long and heavy at slow speed — not surprisingly for a 227kg bike with a 1554mm wheelbase. But its seat is low enough to allow most riders

need - my R1 was all the bike I ever needed for 5% of the time.For british roads and day to day riding and or touring to far flung places, its really hard to beat either solo or two up Jiri Cervenka: Extremely versatile but not exactly inspiring