Mike Armitage

This month: An engineer by training, and a massively experienced bike tester, Mike’s insight and analysis of the new bikes from EICMA is essential reading. And he’s open minded enough to rate the Kawasaki Vulcan too.

Superchargers, seven-speed gearboxes, leaning three-wheelers, built-in navigation, counter-rotating big-bang cranks, lights that see round corners... Sounds like a vision of the future, but all this features on new bikes at Milan’s EICMA show. And in a showroom near you next year...