Whether you?re buying a sportsbike, an adventure bike or anything in between, these days it doesn?t matter which of the manufactures have got their name slapped on the side of it. Chances are if you?ve gone for the top spec model, it?ll have space-age gadgetry and state of the art motorcycle tech crammed into every nook and cranny. Will it catch on" Well it seems as though it already has, in quite a big way. Especially when you consider the fact that in recent years we?ve seen cruise control on superbikes, launch control on naked bikes and traction control on bikes with sub-60bhp. You may, rightly or wrongly, be of the opinion that those particular systems have no such place on those particular bikes, and there?d be plenty of folk that agree with you. However, having sampled all of the delights of the electronic age (motorcycle-wise, anyway) I believe I can say with some authority that most of them will, without a scrap of doubt, make your life better. But not all of them. So, join us in an exploration of motorcycle electronics as we ask ?Modern motorcycle tech; Is it really worth it"?
Cruise Control

This piece of motorcycle tech was one of the ones that I turned my nose up at when I first heard of it entering the bike world. Surely the idea of having a bike is to ride it yourself, not put it in auto-pilot. It wasn?t until I had a go with it that I realised just how good it is. Don?t get me wrong, its not the kind of thing you?ll be faffing about wit...