as an aside, when I used to freelance for 'Bike', I never went below 6k on a group road test! If I did, I'd lose the pack!How the hell those fellers who did it full time for a living (Simon Hargreaves, Pete Boast, Tom Bedford etc) that I'd be chasing keep their licences is beyond me. I did learn a lot though. Mostly I learnt I only have a certain amount of skill lol. I remember coming through Spalding in the pissing rain on a group test of the four fastest bikes of the time on a busa, with Tom Bedford in front of me on a zx12r. I was tip toeing around a roundabout trying to avoid the wet manholes and overbanding and concentrating hard on just staying upright. Tom spun the kwak up, and wheelied out of the roundabout, whilst still leant over, rain bouncing off the road it was coming down so hard. I nearly foccing fell of watching him! Thats when I realised, you get to a certain level much like everyone else, and then after that, you either can, or you can't lol.