LAIA SANZ AND TONI BOU, REPSOL HONDA TEAM MOTOGP RIDERS FOR A DAY Next Monday the two Repsol Trial riders will try riding Dani Pedrosa`s Honda RC212V at the Circuito Ricardo Tormo. Laia Sanz will be the first ever woman to ride a MotoGP bike The Repsol Honda MotoGP Team will stay at the Circuito Ricardo Tormo race track for three days after the GP race this weekend to begin 2008 pre-season practice. The two team riders Dani Pedrosa and Nicky Hayden will be there on the Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons. But before that on the Monday the Repsol Honda Team will have a very special visit from the reigning World Indoor and Outdoor Trial Champion, the Repsol rider Toni Bou, and his teammate Laia Sanz, World Runner-up and European Champion 2007. On the Monday they will test ride the Honda RC212V that Dani Pedrosa has ridden this serason in the World Motorcycling Championship. This will be a great experience for the two riders in the Repsol Montesa-HRC team and they are really looking forward to it. Laia Sanz will become the first woman in history to test a MotoGP bike since this 4 stroke category was introduced back in 2002. And now, some reader reaction: FIRST PERSON/OPINION Via e-mail: I’m pretty sure that former 250 GP rider Katja Poensgen had a run out on the 990 Suzuki, although I can find no record of it via the magic of Google, but British Journo/Celeb Jane Ogmorogbe certainly has – and here are the pictures to prove it! ~http://www.rio-gladiator.co.uk/journalism.html~ Cheers, Ken Haylock, Carmarthen, Wales United Kingdom FIRST PERSON/OPINION Via e-mail: Looks like Repsol is at least a couple of years too late to be the first to have a woman ride a MotoGP bike. Paola Cazolla rode Loris Capirossi’s Desmosedici after the 2005 season. ~http://www.ducati.com/ducatiworld/women_articles/articolo_25.jhtml~ Mike Dalmaso Martinez, Georgia