TRIED & TESTED

After a day of bombing around London putting Honda’s new Monkey 125 through its paces, I necked a bottle of water before diving right back on my Husqvarna Vitpilen 401. I set off for home in an attempt to get the jump on the worst of the rush hour traffic and avoid some of the inevitable carnage on the M25. Bombing through traffic, and sliding my way past cars – the little Husky was in great form. Clearing the worst of the traffic, I made solid progress right the way up to Peterborough – with Lincolnshire and a well-earned service station sandwich fast approaching.

And that’s when it happened. Finding myself being squeezed tighter and tighter in heavy traffic on the Peterborough Parkway – I settled into the steady flow of traffic on the outside lane, sitting at 60mph. A flurry of brake lights ahead forced me to get hard on the brakes, and before