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This R1200GS supermoto special shows that adventure bikes aren’t just for touring – they’re for thrashing too. French dealer Panda Moto has turned the softy adventure bike into a supermoto inspired by BMW’s blue, red and white liveried WSB and endurance...
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MCN's 2009 test fleet includes the unconventional-looking Honda DN-01. It's an automatic with cruiser geometry, a 680cc v-twin engine and shaft drive. So far so odd - but what's it like to ride? Watch the video to find out. Find...
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Royal Enfield motorcycles are true timewarp motorcycling – unlike the Austin Mini and Volkswagen Beetle which eventually morphed in to expensive fashion vehicles, the Enfield Bullet remains as an authentic slice of British motorcycling. But even Royal Enfield can’t ignore...
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Seven members of the Hells Angels and Outlaws have been jailed for six years each for their part in a mass brawl at Birmingham International Airport. The “horrendous fight” last January almost cost one man his life according to police....
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Yamaha has released a £2000 sticker kit for the new Yamaha R1 which turns it into a full Rossi-style Fiat Yamaha replica. The Team Replica body kit comes fully prepared and ready to fit and includes full fairing, tank, seat-unit...
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MCN's 2009 test fleet includes the unconventional-looking Honda DN-01. It's an automatic with cruiser geometry, a 680cc v-twin engine and shaft drive. So far so odd - but what's it like to ride? Watch the video to find out. Find...
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This R1200GS supermoto special shows that adventure bikes aren’t just for touring – they’re for thrashing too. French dealer Panda Moto has turned the softy adventure bike into a supermoto inspired by BMW’s blue, red and white liveried WSB and endurance...
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Royal Enfield motorcycles are true timewarp motorcycling – unlike the Austin Mini and Volkswagen Beetle which eventually morphed in to expensive fashion vehicles, the Enfield Bullet remains as an authentic slice of British motorcycling. But even Royal Enfield can’t ignore...
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Seven members of the Hells Angels and Outlaws have been jailed for six years each for their part in a mass brawl at Birmingham International Airport. The “horrendous fight” last January almost cost one man his life according to police....
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Yamaha has released a £2000 sticker kit for the new Yamaha R1 which turns it into a full Rossi-style Fiat Yamaha replica. The Team Replica body kit comes fully prepared and ready to fit and includes full fairing, tank, seat-unit...
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A mysterious bike firm claiming hundred-year heritage has launched an excluisve new bike based around a Norton Commando engine. You can read full details in MCN soon, but until then this is what we have from Phantom founder ‘Erasmus Thump’:...
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US firm Bad Dog Cycles is working on a monstrous 3.5l bike engine featuring six inch-wide pistons. Owner Bill Price says: “I'm not too happy with the first version of the frame and will be making some improvements there. Our...
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Honda’s all-new V4 will have a 1200cc engine and be called the VFR1200 MCN believes. The information emerged as the firm edges ever closer to releasing what is sure to be the most significant bike of 2010. The bike, which...
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The world fell for the Evo Designs Ev-0RR when it was first revealed in MCN in March. But since the bike failed to make the start line in the TTXGP we never got to find out just how it looked...
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Multiple trials world champion Dougie Lampkin will appear with comedian Ross Noble of the Fifth Gear television show on Monday. Lampkin will be teaching Noble to ride a trials bike. This is the second time Lampkin has been on the...
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Norton has set the price of its new Commando 961 at £15,995 with the first of the pre-production bikes expected to be built at the end of July. The Commando is the first bike the newly-British owned firm will be...
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Celebrity jailbird Lord Brocket has completed his 9,500 mile charity ride. The I’m a Celebrity Star arrived back in the UK after riding across Europe and the Middle East to raise money for CLIC Sargent – which provides care and...
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Overzealous parking wardens are ruining one of the UK’s most popular biking meccas and damaging businesses, say local traders. Wardens have been “swamping” Matlock Bath in Derbyshire and driving out bikers since the council contracted a private firm to take...
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Kawasaki has released information and pictures about the new range of motocross bikes including the KX450F and KX250F which are more powerful and have a host of minor changes. Work on the KX450F has centred on the fuel-injected engine with...
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Riders are prepared to sacrifice everything from nights down the boozer to going on holiday with the family to make sure they get a riding holiday this year. But a third will now be forced to stay in the UK,...
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Honda’s hotly-anticipated new V4-powered bike will be seen in finished form this autumn and will be in dealers next spring, Honda’s Senior Managing Director Shigeru Takagi has confirmed. In a rare interview last week, Takagi – who was celebrating Honda’s...
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Can any nice person answer a question for me? Ca i ride my m800 in England on a Guernsey provisional licence. I recently found this in English traffic law does thi mean yes. Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man...
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I am Isabelle and I'm 9 months old. When I am old enough I want to ride my Dad's motorbike.
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Yamaha have included the XJ6 and XJ6 Diversion models, including the ABS variants, in their HOT WHEELS, HOT DEALS initiative where customers can take advantage of impressive finance deals including 0% finance until Monday 14th September 2009. Along with the TT...
New V-twin will have 3500cc and six-inch pistons
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US firm Bad Dog Cycles is working on a monstrous 3.5l bike engine featuring six inch-wide pistons. Owner Bill Price says: “I'm not too happy with the first version of the frame and will be making some improvements there. Our...
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