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Lovely to see something on bikes that are a little ‘left field’ in CMM! I’ve owned a 9R and 12R Firebolt and loved both – they did sometimes give me the odd headache (three belts snapped in around 10 years of ownership) but the performance and handling was, in my opinion, pretty damn good.

Best of all was that both bikes were ‘quirky’, and compared to the Honda CB500 and CBR600F that I owned before, they were delightfully different to a Japanese twin or four. On the 12 I