25/10/2006 I am still enjoying the small 2-stroke from Aprilia. To be fair, the performance is not that small. 39bhp from a 125 single is pretty cool stuff really. It has chucked it down all day, but I nipped out for a short spin anyway. Tomorrow I'll be riding down to the NEC on the RS125 and hopefully I'll get some dry weather so that I can enjoy the scenic route rather than the M6 motorway. I'll be hooking up with Martin Leyfield down at the NEC to send him around chasing ladies for photo sessions. I'll be doing a fair bit of the same, but will post updates during the whole day as well. I don't expect many new bikes that I haven't seen already at the Intermot, but there's always something. I'll be telling you about them first and I know that NEC runs a smooth press office where they stay until the last journalist have finished. Which is how it should be (do you hear me over at EICMA in Milan?). At the home show I also have the flexibility of my own transport and just an hour or so ride home. I might even pop by the show later in the weekend this time, but we'll see how it goes. I forgot to mention the other day that I told BMW that I would eat my helmet if they didn't show something new at the EICMA show in November. Their comments was that they wanted to see the pictures where I am eating my helmet. We shall see my dear friends at BMW-Motorrad, I am not chickening out just yet (do they make chocolate helmets by the way?). TS