Only just found my copy of PB again after an over enthusiastic spring clean. It's the June 2006 copy that I've had since the end of April (work out the vagaries of magazine publication dates from that if you will).
Starting on page 12 there is a feature article about the brand new PB Test Track which is and I quote:
Roughly 3442.42 metres of tarmac, concrete, tar, overbanding and hellish conditions. Fun it is not. So why the hell do we use it? Why not take every bike to the Costa Del Sun, or at least to the Costa Del Cadwell? Because the PBTT is a tool, a dependable measure that any bike can be held against. The surface changes mirror the quality of the public road system. The long straights our glorious A-roads and dual-carriageways. It's no good telling the manufacturers they've built the perfect bike because it beat it's opposition by 0.2sec around a hand-laid GP circuit. The PBTT is a test track, not a race track. Although the first crop of test bikes around this test track were the 'usual suspects' of this years hot 600's, one of the things that I like about PB in it's current format is that it deals with real world bikes instead of just the 'latest, greatest' so they've also had an NC30 and a KR1S around there as well.
At the end of the article they put out an appeal for a sorted CBR954 and a Ducati 888. contact details are to email Dale at
dale@emap.com Not sure whether they want a standard Strada, like mine, an SP or a trick 955 or 996 powered specimen though.
21-May-2006, 21:00 
Jools
oh and don't rev it past 10,500...
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