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.
1 Fault nearly halts play
The Morini has been playing up during its performance testing, stuttering at low revs, and the problem persists for the first couple of hours of the 250, then goes away and occasionally reappears. Hopefully it’s a problem just with this test bike. The Aprilia’s battery dies the day before, too. I have…