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How to market your Guzzi dealership

Probably best viewed at home, on your own, with a beer

NOT ONE for the 'burn yer bras' bridgade but we reckon the guys at US-based Cycle Garden have got a great way of attracting new business.

We've never much hankered after owning a Guzzi (speak for yourself - I've always fancied a Le Mans Mk1 - Ed) but this video has made ...  Continue reading

Tags: Guzzi

Video: Rule number one of carrying a pillion...

If you're going to turn up on your Harley making loads of noise and showing off. At least make sure your pillion's on the back, before you ride off..

There's a lot of anger in this video. But it's very funny. Just remember, a successful ride with a pillion always starts with the pillion actually being on the bike as you pull away. This guy failed at the first hurdle...

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Video: An important message from Camier and Biaggi's new sponsor

Spoof video of an Alitalia flight safety brief is well worth a watch

If you're one of those people that forgets the instructions you're given every time you fly, Alitalia has the video for you. Probably needs wactching a few times just to make sure you remember what you're being shown.

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Video: CBR600RR stolen in under a minute

See how easily they can pinch your pride and joy. It's shocking really.

How long does it take to steal a Honda CBR600RR? Not long, really. And no need for hammers, or cutting tools either. It adds weight to the fact you should lock your bike to something solid...

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Video: BMW S1000RR's valves at full chat

Impressive video showing a cut-away of the new BMW S1000RR's engine in action

BMW USA clearly have some spare time on their hands and we like that! They've taken a hacksaw to a BMW S1000RR engine and produced this video.

Keep your hands away from the screen: you wouldn't want to get your fingers caught in there...

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Tags: bmw, s1000rr, video

Video: That was always going to happen, part one

Whenever you get the video camera out, and it involves bikes, it's almost certainly going to end like this..

Simple really, just get a little put-put, find some land under a motorway somewhere and then stunt it infront of your mates holding the video camera. What could possibly go wrong?

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Ford Ranger Wildtrak: part one

She's here for the long term...

Picked up our Ford Ranger Wildtrak pickup last week. She’s massive, blue and bestowed with a three-litre turbo diesel engine that’s so torquey you can set off in first gear with no throttle at all. Going to be perfect for humping bikes and people and gear around, that’s fo’ sho’.

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1974: Onboard an MV racer with Phil Read

Listen in as eight-time world champion thrashes MV four-stroke

ANOTHER CRACKING BIT of vintage racing footage, this time featuring multiple motorcycle world champion Phil Read on the awesome-sounding MV Agusta 500-4.

The footage is from the 1974 movie 'The Iron Horse' made by Frenchman Pierre-William Glenn.

Read’s 1974 500cc World Championship victory was the last year a four-stroke ...  Continue reading

Tags: MV, Read, Sheene

Laguna Seca: 500cc two-strokes: take two

More wheelie-popping action from the USA

HERE'S ANOTHER great bit of 1980's 500cc two-stroke action from Laguna Seca, featuring triple World Champion Kenny Roberts, Randy Mamola and Mike Baldwin.

Listen to Roberts in the post race interview saying he's more interested in pulling wheelies and having fun than 'smoking' everyone else on the track, just to prove he's ...  Continue reading

Tags: 500cc, Laguna

Think once, think twice, think Jimmy Hill?

One from the UK's road safety archives

HERE'S A CLASSIC 1970's British road safety announcement, starring former football legend-turned-commentator Jimmy 'The Chin' Hill.

Sadly, the message sent out 30 years ago about drivers pulling out of side roads without first checking thoroughly for motorcycles is still the same today: just because you can see them it doesn't guarantee the ...  Continue reading

Tags: safety

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