talk of fast Nurburgring times
on the PH homepage inevitably led to an afternoon spent furtively trawling YouTube for onboard Nordschleife clips, whereupon we strayed across this magical piece of footage.
It features Bridgestone test rider Tim Rothig, a Kawasaki ZX-10R and a gyroscopic camera.
This video has been around for a while, so our apologies if you've seen (but it's surely worth a second look), and gyrocams have been used in MotoGP for some months, but it's still fascinating to get a new - and very level - view of one of the world's most challenging tracks.
And to the non-bikers among us at least, it seems a pretty hair-raising lap...