2010 Bike Shootout – A day in the snow

This ain’t California and we certainly don’t have the luxury of brilliant sunshine and 30 degree heat but we managed to succeed in riding and testing all the 2010 250’s, 450’s and 2strokes at a amazing day at Essex MX on Thursday.

It was freezing and at one stage we were in the middle of a snow blizzard but we all managed to get through unscathed thanks to the wonderful people of Yamaha, Kawasaki, Honda, Suzuki, TM, KTM, Husqvarna and Aprilia for their patience and assistance and not forgetting our test riders who were braver than brave.

The big talk today was how the new 450 Yamaha and the all new Suzuki 250 were going to perform, expect the unexpected when you read the full test in the next issue of MOTO and what about the first ever UK test on the all new Aprilia the bike Josh Coppins will race on in 2010, is it as good as we’ve all been told?

Watchout for the video later this week and the full feature in MOTO early in January.

It was cold it was dark but it was a lot of fun