Metzeler’s new Sportec M5 Interact is designed not just to replace the old M3 supersport tyre, but to broaden the number of bikes it can be fitted to.

It hardly needs an introduction, does it? The Ducati Multistrada is the most hotly anticipated, intensely discussed new motorcycle since… okay, since the Honda VFR1200F.

All of a sudden the high tech, high spec, big capacity adventure bike class is where all the action is, and I'm so excited, I've done a spec sheet shoot-out!

When Kawasaki released the 1400GTR in July 2007 it was the factory’s first touring bike in 21 years.

While the Japanese draw in the horns during the recession, so BMW keeps on pumping out new models, and not just new ones but good and great new ones.

The tragedy of Harley-Davidson’s enforced fire-fighting sale of MV Agusta is underlined by a few short minutes riding the new F4: the bike has been transformed under the Americans’ stewardship.

It hurts motorcyclists to admit it, but arguably the most brilliant two-wheeler design of the last century had the word ‘Vespa’ on the side.

Kawasaki doesn’t feel the Versys was as successful as it should have been. If that's so then the 2010 version deserves to make amends...