of recent times, when the RC8 arrived a year ago many people expected KTM’s first attempt at a pure sports bike to be filling half of every superstock race grid by the end of the 2008 season.It didn’t quite work out that way. Some customers experienced

’t disappoint. The racket from the tailpipe is pure race grid and you can almost sense the noise meter man’s unwanted attentions.Blip the throttle and it impresses further. Revs rise and fall so fast it’s as if someone’s nicked the flywheels. To call the Tre

capacity: 18.0L Full Review: Before any new bike can line up on a world Supersport grid, homologation rules stipulate at least 1,000 road legal units of the same basic bike must be made available to the public – Supersport is after all a roadbike

’ NIX30 forks (containing the same 30mm fork internal kit that Sam Lowes used to win the 2010 British Supersport title), a TTX36 shock (as used by most of the World and British Supersport grid) and an upgraded 18mm Brembo radial master cylinder with new

has Ducati done? Simple, given the road bike everything it needs to race in WSB and sod the cost. This bike has more trick components than most of the WSB grid as standard!Ducati call the 1098R a ‘pure and simple race bike,’ and it is. The new 1

behind this you'll find a neat, fully digital dash that wouldn't be out of place on a MotoGP grid. Finally there are the black five-spoke lightweight alloy wheels taking you back to another stunning creation, the Desmosedici-style seat unit.If the truth

the 1000cc bikes to the back of the grid the Cbr is very forgiving and I'd say ideal for the 1st big bike if your tall its good cas you can get your body weight over the front wheel n if your short you can climb under the tank! I've owned mine 3yrs now

and ride a ZX9R fairly often and the 7 always brings the biggest smile to my grid! I use it for track days as well as on the road and have never had a problem. It's not even massively tricked out with just an Acropivic exhaust and jetting to match. Whenever