day on the Sepang circuit, we took off into the countryside where it came up trumps as one of the best sportsbike I've ridden on the road.I never thought the K4/5 GSX R was the prettiest 600 out there, but the latest model is right up there with all

any of the current 1000cc sports bikes. And it costs £1500 less than they do. It also works very well. Like I said, forget anything about giving the engine an easy ride, rev the hell out of the R6 and that motor is strong. I'm not convinced about

plenty of warning first. This is a seriosly planted sportsbike.Where the front end was always a bit nervous on the old bike, especially mid-corner when you'd run in a bit hot or hard on the gas out of corners when it could really slap about, the new bike

there this year... by Warren Pole.I couldn't believe it. I know the TT course is a ludicrously quick place to ride a motorcycle, and that those who race it flat-out on the fastest bikes known to man all have balls the size of watermelons.But the ZX-9R's speedo

, but not in a boring kind of way, if you give it some stick then it responds and you have to concentrate very hard, but if your gentle it's as safe as houses.This is the best thou out there. gunshot72: Sublime in every way Strengths: Handling, power delivery

expect a bit of special treatment if you had just forked out £15k for what is merely a tweaked up Boxer engine in a fairly normal-looking frame with a splattering of carbon fibre.Except the HP2 Sport is far from just a tweaked R1200S. This is, quite

suspension tweaking was required to make the most of the chassis,but when done, WOW what a brilliant machine it is, around where I live there are twisty B-roads, where ultimate speed doesnt matter, but handling does, well I can tell you this thing grunts out

for mass production, but limited numbers of innovative and unique machines. First out is the SB8K, part of the old stock of parts and engines inherited by the new concern. Not an old bike per se, Bimota has waved its magic spell over the engine management

around, a bonus because Ducati only gave us four 15-minute sessions.First session out and after a fairly gentle warm-up lap I started to build the pace up, which resulted in me running over more inner corner paint than a myopic kerb crawler. Honestly

track bike of the pair.The only reason to buy an RR is to go supersport racing because at 636ccs the R is nothing less than a very unsubtle bit of cheating that’ll see you slung out of any 600cc race you care to take a crack at.And for racing the RR