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[email protected] THIS WEEK NEW BIKES FEATURES GARAGE SELLING SPORT March 16 2016 49 BMW S1000RR Heading off road? Q Leave the panniers or Aprilia RSV4? at home I’m moving up to a 1000cc superbike from my 2011 Suzuki GSX-R600. I’m partial to the odd trackday, and Your legal questions ANY QUESTION the bikes I have in mind are either a used BMW S1000RR or Aprilia RSV4. What would you recommend? Q I hit a pedestrian, Leigh Bishop, email but how do I stop Answered by Michael Neeves, MCN him from taking a If you are stepping up from the step too far? ✓ GSX-R600, the BMW makes sense ANSWERED for several reasons. It’s a four- Last October I hit a pedestrian at If we don’t know the answer, we’ll find the person who does cylinder like your 600 so it won’t be a crossing. I was doing 25-30mph so much of a culture shock. It may but misjudged the lights. I was too feel even more familiar because close to stop safely as they went when BMW were first developing amber, and they turned to red as I The steel-frame their new engine the test mule was went through them. This lad stepped CBR600 is a classic, Purchasing an unregistered bike like a Suzuki GSX-R1000 K5 chassis. If out as soon as the light turned red, but it’s not immune an FZ8 should prove trouble free your budget allows go for a 2012-on looking the opposite way to the from reg-rec S1000RR.