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As the name suggests, the Moto Hispania SM1125 is a Spanish made learner legal supermoto. It certainly looks the part and will have young potential customers drooling at shop windows. It’s competitively priced, being one of the cheapest in its... More...
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Replacing the old Brutale 989R, the new 139bhp 990R has a sleeved-down version of the new 1090RR engine. It’s slightly lower spec, so has non-adjustable footpegs, more durable Pirelli Diablo Rosso tyres (not Dunlop Qualifier RRs), forged aluminium wheels, no... More...
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MV’s new range-topping Brutale 1090RR, the first of the new-generation of machines built under Harley Davidson ownership, might not look very different to the old one, but it’s a revelation. It’s 85% new, boasts a dual power map, an eight-stage... More...
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Revived Norton’s new Commando 961 SE is a ‘feel good’ bike par excellence. It gives riding and owning pleasure by the skip-load and is a machine you’ll park up and spend hours admiring in the garage with a cuppa. Yes,... More...
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When it comes to scooters, there’s none more iconic and successful than the Peugeot Speedfight. The French runabout has been around for an impressive 12 years selling a staggering half a million units around the world during that time. For... More...
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The GTS 300 Super is Vespa’s biggest scooter to date and blends classic Vespa style with bang-up-to-date performance, refinement and sophistication. It’s up to more than outings across cities and suburbia: get the extra luggage, load it up and it’ll... More...
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Moto Hispania is a Spanish company with a reputation for quality at a price, which sums up the RX125R to a Tee. The newcomer is a stylish, sports learner 125 with a Yamaha-alike four-stroke engine. It’s competitively priced, with sports... More...
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MV’s new-generation F4 is still an unashamed racing bike with lights, but the Italian firm have smoothed out all the old rough edges and created a thoroughly usable superbike for the road. It’s 10kg lighter too. It’s still not as... More...
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Even though the bike tested was a pre-production unit – virtually finished bar the paintwork and decals – this bigger capacity 690 Duke is altogether a different machine than non-R model 690 Duke (654cc). The extra 36cc (KTM won’t confirm... More...
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Unless you’re enduro god David Knight who prefers the extra grunt of the 530, the 450 EXC is everything you could want in an enduro bike. Light, more power than most of us know what to do with and it’s... More...
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The Honda CBR125R and Yamaha YZF-R125 have dominated the sales charts, regularly being the outright top-selling bikes in the UK. Find a 125 for sale But now there's a new contender - the Derbi GPR125, complete with upside-down forks, underslung exhaust... More...
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The Ducati Hypermotard in Tom Cruise’s new film Knight and Day isn’t what it seems. American bike journalist Wes Siler spotted this picture of the Ducati used for stunt sequences and realised it was in fact a dressed up Aprilia... More...
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This isn't the kind of bike you'd expect to roll out of a shop named Santiago Choppers. Owned and run by prolific custom builder Alan Bernard, Santiago's specialise in trikes and bobbers more than café racers but the Breitling bike... More...
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Riding in Newham, I used the bus lanes every day for a week, only to recieve 3 tickets for using a them. I didn't read the small print, that local boroughs have the right to enforce the ruling or ignore... More...
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Riding in Newham, I used the bus lanes every day for a week, only to recieve 3 tickets for using a them. I didn't read the small print, that local boroughs have the right to enforce the ruling or ignore... More...
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This isn't the kind of bike you'd expect to roll out of a shop named Santiago Choppers. Owned and run by prolific custom builder Alan Bernard, Santiago's specialise in trikes and bobbers more than café racers but the Breitling bike... More...
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We had all been looking forward to this year's Day of Champions ride in - to be amongst the first to actually ride the new GP track - what a joy! We always use the day to kick start our GP... More...
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Brad Ray impressed at this weekends British Moto GP with two wins in the Metrakit 125cc Pre GP series, sponsored by FAB Racing. Brad - the youngest on the grid at just 13 - also set the fastest lap of the weekend and... More...
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MCN's Michael Neeves went along to the California Superbike School at Silverstone to complete level 2 of their rider training program. More info on the California Superbike School Watch the video to see how he got on: http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1119137831http://www.brightcove.com/channel.jsp?channel=711881422 //... More...
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We had all been looking forward to this year's Day of Champions ride in - to be amongst the first to actually ride the new GP track - what a joy! We always use the day to kick start our GP... More...
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Brad Ray impressed at this weekends British Moto GP with two wins in the Metrakit 125cc Pre GP series, sponsored by FAB Racing. Brad - the youngest on the grid at just 13 - also set the fastest lap of the weekend and... More...
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MCN's Michael Neeves went along to the California Superbike School at Silverstone to complete level 2 of their rider training program. More info on the California Superbike School Watch the video to see how he got on: http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1119137831http://www.brightcove.com/channel.jsp?channel=711881422 //... More...
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Me and MCN on a rig move in the North Sea. More...
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The fairies attempt to clean rust off a bike with a magic potion of theirs - Coca Cola and aluminium foil. But it all goes wrong. More...
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The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents are holding ‘RideSafe’ motorcycling events at the new Idle Valley Rural Learning Centre just north of Retford from 9.30 am to 4.30 pm. It is subsidised by Nottinghamshire County Council through the... More...