Ducati's Technical Director Andrea Forni provides candid answers to some of the questions about the 2013 Multistrada posed by ashonbikes forum users:

KTM is back pitching at BMW's R1200GS with its 2013 1190 Adventure, and the new bike has a much stronger road bias than the old Adventure.

Two more new Husqvarnas have been released and we should be getting a better idea of where owner BMW wants its Italian dirt bike subsidiary to be heading. But the TR650 is confusing instead.

There aren't many S1000RR owners pining for better performance. But if they ever get to try the new HP4, they're going to want one anyway...

Say what you like about Triumph's lack of originality in its engineering and model range, the British factory consistently is churning out some rocking good motorcycles. And the new Trophy is the best Triumph yet.

One of my first ever jobs as a fledgling bike journalist was attending a presentation at the then-importer of Yamaha, Mitsui. This was 1992 and it was about Mitsui's new bike marking system called Datatag, which was, we were told, going to have a major effect on the endemic bike theft problem.

Daelim, that's Chinese isn’t it? I wouldn't touch one of them, it'll fall to bits, the warranty's worthless, you're wasting your money....

It’s time for the motorcycle industry to have a serious think about its priorities, because they're looking bizarrely skewed right now.