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Class of 2025

ROUNDING off

SPORTS BIKE SHOOTOUT

He came, he revved, he reclined...

At this point, I’m supposed to pick a bike from the group as Amy winner, but when it comes to it, the truth genuinely is that it’s impossible. How can you pick one 200bhp bike over another 200bhp bike as better, when they are all capable of making your jaw drop and encourage expletives at their sheer violence?

Having had a couple of days in the presence of the bikes assembled, we should be grateful to their manufacturers for not giving up on the sector and, to a greater or lesser degree, carrying on with the challenge of making the best better. It’s that divergence of effort and investment which has arguably evolved the sector into one that’s better than it ever was due to it being far more diverse that it ever was.

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