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 On your marques
Fuelled up and ready, Bruce bags the BMW with his helmet in lieu of a German beach towel on its bars. He, like others, remains wary of the Norton when, by contrast, the R nineT is a familiar, reassuring friend. Although now around for eight years, the Norton’s rarity and slightly chequered backstory…