Engine capacity: 499cc Power: 28bhp Torque: 31lb ft Weight: 187kg

and competition applications such as speedway bikes and trials/scramblers Tony Wilson: Ver good product that does what it should. Strengths: Keeps chain lubbed for many, many miles. Very sticky and very little throw off even when riden straight away. Weaknesses

, for me, isn’t all about sports bikes. I get just as much enjoyment from riding, say, a 1966 drum-braked Bonneville as I do from a CR500, a slim style Lambretta or snail-pace competition trials bikes. The formula is simple. Engine + wheels (as long as they

, press the magic button, and away you go again. Great. With a modicum of skill it will go up just about anything short of a trials section, it stops and handles brilliantly and if you've got the space and the nerve to give it the berries, it goes like

FIM World Duration Records at Nardò Technical Center in Southern Italy. On just one set of Angel ST tyres they covered a distance of 5,135 km at an average speed of 214 km/h in a tough 24H non stop trial which proved the consistency and the performance

, it looks amazing – a trials/supermoto hybrid. Incredibly skinny with a fat 180-section rear tyre and possibly one of the sexiest titanium exhaust system to grace any bike. Secondly, it sounds amazing. The tiniest V-twin ever made is manhandled

and very sensible.That is if you can call anything in turquoise, red and orange sensible. This bike has to stand trial as perhaps the most misguided colour scheme since someone at Fieldsheer decided fluoro pink and yellow would be a good option

riding out of tricky hairpins, to the point that I almost started slipping the clutch as if I was on a trials bike. Some of this is due to first gear being quite tall, not helped by it inheriting the RSV's close ratio gearbox, but once you get going