Five reasons the UK is the best place in the world to be a motorcyclist

Okay, so there are few clever ones around now but a big part of the speed camera network still consists of Gatsos, using technology which went out with the cassette tape.
They measure speed over a clearly defined area and they’re probably visible from space. If you get caught by one of these, you deserve everything you get.
And we haven’t even got on to all the average-speed cameras that face the wrong way.

The influence of the once-dominant British motorcycle industry is plain in bike design to this day. The upright Universal Japanese Motorcycle shape takes cues from British bikes of the ‘50s and ‘60s like the Bonneville T120 (pictured), and the UJM is arguably the predecessor of the modern four-cylinder sports bike.
Motorcycles? We invented them.

Yes, roads. From the A39 Atlantic Highway in Cornwall and Devon (pictured) to Scotland’s 500-mile North Coast 500 route through the Highlands, the UK is packed with some of the world’s best.

It’s known as the Greatest Show on Earth, and motorcyclists travel from all corners of the world to see it. Or, if they’re from the UK, hop on a ferry.

If there’s one benefit to enduring crap winters, it’s that we know how to make the most of summer with a good old bike meet.
Like the one in Poole, Dorset (pictured), which happens every Tuesday from April to September.