OK finally managed to spend some time on this.. Loaded it on my main pc (specs in sig) and unfortunately I'm dissapointed with the game's engine. Firstly in reply to the original OP question. This game does run at normal bike speed, though it didn't on my other rig, dunno why on the other XP SP3 rig and if i'm honest i'm not going to bother working out why. The problem is it doesn't run as smooth as it should. With AA on it judders at around 20fps and this is on my Q6600, 4860 machine. Without it, it sort of runs most of the time at 60fps but drops in some corners and when other bikes are on the screen. A little like MotoGP7 (THQ offering) on the 360, if anyone is a fan of the motogp series. On a pc i expect this to be perfect, considering MotoGP 3 from THQ 4 yrs ago managed to do so, without any lesser graphics. This is a clear port from a console, and suffers from all the typical console ports quirks.... If you are not a frame rate whore, you could probably get into the game.. I'm a huge fan of the sport and will struggle myself. I'd give this game 6/10....