Budget blaster

The beauty of factory bikes is that they come in all shapes and sizes and I can honestly say that, in all my years of writing for the motorcycle press, the highlight has been getting to test them. Back when I was racing for factory teams the likes of Scotty Bishop and Lyndon Heffernan would throw a leg over my race bikes and critique them for magazines.

And I always remember reading the stories and being intrigued by what they thought of my bikes. Most of the time they hated them, because the power was too aggressive and the suspension too stiff. I remember Bishop