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 Fuelled up and ready
You expect sports tourers to have a decent tank size, but while the MV swallows a huge 21.5 litres of fuel the Ducati disappointingly only takes 16 litres, which is less than most sportsbikes. Trips reset, which is pretty intuitive on both bikes, we are ready to hit the MCN250. Only one…