tib and fib and I just went faster each session. Started in Novice, then did Inters and the last one was Fast.Amazing brakes with fresh fluid and SBS pads. Weaknesses: Sublime handling and lovely power range. Very easy to get on and ride fast. My 1

is the best bike I own. It is quick enough to keep up with most bikes on a trackday. I am always surprised when it starts, no idea why as it has always started since I have had it. Make sure you find someone. Who knows the bike and model well as it needs

bike champions Mr Capello: GSXR1100K 1989 slingshot - the killer K, 'sposed to be the worst handling Gixer11, some feat! Strengths: Cheapish to buy but be quick slabby's v.sought after and the killer K starting to get a following. Buy one now

for good and declared 1000s as the way forward, just when the FireBlade and ZX-9R were busy beating each other up every weekend, and just when the R1 was around the corner, Suzuki gave us the GSX-R750WT.We didn't know it then, but this was to be the start

authenticity when it looks this good. And just how good does 52bhp feel? In a bike only weighing 145kg, as good as ever. Big revs off the lights, slip the hell outta the clutch, spin her up to 9,000rpm and off she goes. Then as quick as it started, it's over

as it should be. Although ours could have been a bit sickly…Unfortunately towards the end of the day our little NC30 had issues and refused to start, despite repeated coaxing and a great deal of pushing. If my memory serves me right the forward two cylinders

weight. Although the rest of the sportsbike world has run 17-inch front wheels pretty much without exception both before and since the FireBlade, Honda persevered with the smaller hoop on the Blade. It made it turn quickly, made it flighty, made

find several elbow-down shots of people on these bikes. Or just look at a selection of the race winners from 400cc race classes over the last few years.It's the fastsest overall of the 400cc sportsbikes, the most powerful, the lightest, and unlikely

into its folds, when you sit on it. It’s nothing like the sportsbikes of its day and feels more like a sports tourer. Which probably played a large part in its lack of success, but is this necessarily a bad thing?Having sampled the TL1000R I’d say no. As a