ULTIMATE SPORTS BIKE 2023
Just like that, our three days of testing were done and dusted, barring a final blast over the Mountain. The question was, what bike would I be doing it on? The answer to that lay in the hands of our mate Nick, who’d picked three different lengths of grass for Tim, Joe and I to wrestle from his grasp. I went first… and the outcome was the Beemer. I was quite happy with the result, which said a lot alout how much the M 1000 RR had come to appeal to me over the shoot-out. No, it wasn’t my favourite, but it was a solid choice and I felt little smug as I learned my gear for one last roll of the dice.
To be fair, I knew before I started exactly what I’d be in for, which I considered a good thing. Fast, sharp-handling, but maybe a little soulless is the truthful way we’d come to gauge the carbon-clad wonder-weapon that towered over its rivals parked up at Ramsay Hairpin. Yep, it sure
