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Road Safety Minister Jim Fitzpatrick has claimed having vehicle lights on increases fuel consumption by 5%. ?Research undertaken for the Department for Transport indicated that the requirement for new types of motor vehicle to be equipped with dedicated daytime running...
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Ventura has created this luggage system to give the Suzuki B-King some potential as a touring motorcycle as well as a muscle bike. The kit includes two bespoke rails which mount on the tail piece, and you can then select...
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Actor Andrew Shim has secured a sponsorship deal with finance company First Response Finance. The agreement has provided him with enough cash to take him through the entire season of the Triumph Triple Challenge in 2008, and includes provision of...
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Honda has announced that all motorcycle production in its Marysville plant is to be moved to Japan, marking the end of almost thirty years of Goldwing production in the plant. Opened in 1979, the Ohio factory currently builds 120 Goldwing...
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Steve Berry has made another ill-informed rant on The Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2 while attempting to defend motorcyclists. ?Biker and motoring journalist? Berry went head-to-head with Roger Geffen of the national cyclists? organisation CTC in a live...
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Motorcycle racer Dennis Hobbs is set to appear on the Lothian and Borders Police stand at the MCN Scottish Motorcycle Show, to promote the Force?s Around the Corner safety campaign. The force plans to launch its 2008 campaign on the...
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Edward Leigh MP has branded the Department for Transport an ?embarrassment? over bogus motorcycle tax evasion figures. Leigh, Chairman of the Commons Public Accounts Committee, blames the DfT over false claims he made that nearly 40% of motorcycles were untaxed....
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A second MP behind false claims nearly 40% of motorcycles are untaxed has issued a retraction. In an email to a member of the public, Richard Bacon MP wrote: ?I was certainly at fault - I believed the government!? But...
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Honda has finally announced performance figures for the DN-01, four months after the production motorcycle was unveiled at the Tokyo show. The DN-01 makes a claimed 60bhp, and has a hefty claimed ready-to-ride weight of 270kg, so don?t expect a...
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Aprilia has released these first official pictures of the RSV-4 World Superbike racing motorcycle. The photographs show the finished model that Aprilia plans to campaign in the 2009 WSB championship, though spokesman Miles Taylor says the firm is aiming to...
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MPs are set to discuss whether a controversial Swedish road safety policy linked to calls to ban bikes should be brought to the UK. Vision Zero sets the goal of eliminating road deaths altogether. It has already been adopted as...
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Dr. Murray Griffin, from the University of Essex will attempt to break the motorcycle land speed record for an Altered Partial Streamliner Fuel (APSF) 1350cc. Dr. Griffin will be using a 2003 Suzuki Hayabusa with nitrous oxide (NOS) injection. The current...
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MPs are set to discuss whether a controversial Swedish road safety policy linked to calls to ban bikes should be brought to the UK. Vision Zero sets the goal of eliminating road deaths altogether. It has already been adopted as...
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A second MP behind false claims nearly 40% of motorcycles are untaxed has issued a retraction. In an email to a member of the public, Richard Bacon MP wrote: ?I was certainly at fault - I believed the government!? But...
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Edward Leigh MP has branded the Department for Transport an ?embarrassment? over bogus motorcycle tax evasion figures. Leigh, Chairman of the Commons Public Accounts Committee, blames the DfT over false claims he made that nearly 40% of motorcycles were untaxed....
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Steve Berry has made another ill-informed rant on The Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2 while attempting to defend motorcyclists. ?Biker and motoring journalist? Berry went head-to-head with Roger Geffen of the national cyclists? organisation CTC in a live...
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Road Safety Minister Jim Fitzpatrick has claimed having vehicle lights on increases fuel consumption by 5%. ?Research undertaken for the Department for Transport indicated that the requirement for new types of motor vehicle to be equipped with dedicated daytime running...
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Ventura has created this luggage system to give the Suzuki B-King some potential as a touring motorcycle as well as a muscle bike. The kit includes two bespoke rails which mount on the tail piece, and you can then select...
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Actor Andrew Shim has secured a sponsorship deal with finance company First Response Finance. The agreement has provided him with enough cash to take him through the entire season of the Triumph Triple Challenge in 2008, and includes provision of...
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Motorcycle racer Dennis Hobbs is set to appear on the Lothian and Borders Police stand at the MCN Scottish Motorcycle Show, to promote the Force?s Around the Corner safety campaign. The force plans to launch its 2008 campaign on the...
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Steve Berry has made another misinformed rant on The Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2 while attempting to defend motorcyclists. ?Biker and motoring journalist? Berry went head-to-head with Roger Geffen of the national cyclists? organisation CTC in a live...
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Honda has announced that all motorcycle production in its Marysville plant is to be moved to Japan, marking the end of almost thirty years of Goldwing production in the plant. Opened in 1979, the Ohio factory currently builds 120 Goldwing...
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Last week saw the launch of not one but two all-new BMW GS models, the F800GS and the F650GS, in South Africa. MCN Road Test Editor Phil West went to see if the new F800GS was a baby R1200GS or in...
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Despite the 650 name, the BMW F650GS actually has a 798cc twin cylinder motor derived from the F800GS and has just been laiunched alongside its bigger sibling. MCN Road Test Editor Phil West travelled to South Africa to see if the motorcycle could better...
Government secretive on road pricing trials
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The Department for Transport has refused to name firms applying to take part in its controversial road pricing trials. Notices in the Official Journal of the European Union invited bids to take part in demonstrations of road pricing technology due...
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