It’s Britain’s best road test route. A tough 250-mile mix of A and B-roads, a stretch of busy motorway, plus plenty of towns, villages, blind corners, ballistic straights, and a huge range of grippy to slippy tarmac.
There are two cafés, an off-road section for adventure and trail bikes, track time for sportsbikes, and Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground and the dyno for hard and fast data when needed. You want answers? We’ve got ’em.
‘It’s fine for flowing traffic, but overtaking is ruled out’ 1 Tank buster
Topping up the tank at Oundle the Monkey requires just 1.68 litres of fuel, which is below the pump’s minimum delivery limit of two litres, so I apologise to the attendant for my frugality. According to Honda, the Monkey does an amazing 189mpg, meaning…
