Colour: Blue/White

Model: K1(New in May 2002)

Mileage: 1900

• Akrapovic titanium oval end can
• Carbone Lorraine SBK-3 front pads
• Pirelli Supercorsa's (road compound)
• Fork's dropped through 5mm
• Gilles rearsets

Licence Held: Fourteen years

Track days: No road circuits but loads of Moto-X track days (£85 to thrash someone else's crosser round a track)

Level: ?

Crash Count: Loads when I started riding, best was straight over a T junction at about 60, hit curb and I flew head first into a lamp post, I had headache for about 9 days.

Previous bikes: Loads! of every make,even built my own using a GPZ750 motor. But never owned anything that could touch me new gixxer.

• It's a long one! Peterborough to Stamford (via Ufford) then onto Bourne using A6121, just before Bourne pick up the A151 to Corby Glen. At Corby Glen take B1176 to Old Somerby then B6403 to Colsterworth, turn right onto B676 to Melton Mowbray. From Melton onto the B6047 to Market Harborough then B664 to Uppingham, A47 to Morcott then A6121 to Stamford then back to Peterborough the same as at start. About 120 miles of twisty back roads with everything you could want and NO camera's and very little traffic. 10/10