For those of you that have read my previous blogs, it is pretty obvious that i have a passion for everything bikes. I am lucky enough to own a pretty special road going superbike, a GSX-R1000 K8 '58 reg. I purchased this bike in September 2009 when the bike was 11 months old and had a little over 1000 miles on the clock, for a paltry amount of money in relative terms. List price at the time was a little over £8500 needless to say i payed a lot less than that! In fact I got it so cheap that i had it valued in April this year and I havn't lost any money on it. Now, i had traded a GSX-R600 for it and was pretty excited at the thought of having over 165BHP at my beck and call, but also fully aware that this machine would need respect in terms of how i used my right wrist. This model does have a switchable throttle map on the right switchgear next to my right thumb and the rider is able to switch between modes from 125bhp-150bhp-165bhp but i would rather use my better judgement and...