Only fuels and horses
One of the upsides of being on the staff of AMCN is that, on occasion, you get to ride tasty new metal. There’s a downside to that as well; as would be obvious by now, the road testers who write the articles we have read for decades actually know what they are doing.
Your Cathcarts and Childs need little introduction, and Kel Buckley and Pete Vorst have been around motorbikes long enough to be able to diagnose the good and the bad on most bikes within a few kilometres.
On the other hand I am – what’s that word again? – oh yes, an idiot. I can spot what I like and don’t like about bikes but without a detailed spec sheet, diagnosing the incremental gains made over the previous model is a stretch beyond my capabilities. I can stroke my chin and nod
