THE CHINESE government has said it will not tolerate a rash of recent thefts in the country where specialist 'pigjackers' are commiting high-speed motorcycle snatches of fresh pig meat.Soaring pork prices have sent thieves out to hunt down pig meat

CAST your mind back a couple of years and you might remember a spate of stories about a new British bike firm called Mac Motorcycles with plans to launch a range of bobber-style single-cylinder machines based around Buell Blast engines

1981Back in ’81 most superbikes were just as they had been for more than a decade: big, naked air-cooled fours with high bars and twin shocks. We loved them that way too, of course, despite the wobbles and the neck ache. Revolution was in the air, with fairings, liquid-cooling an...

VW ... artist's impression but first bike won't look anything like thisHERE'S what some of the car magazines are saying the new VW motorcycle will look like when it comes out in the summer of 2009. Looks just like a Brutale to us, we expect VW

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1985We knew 1985 was going to be special because it was motorcycling’s centenary, coming 100 years after German teenager Paul Daimler made the first ever ride aboard a 264cc, wooden-framed single called Einspur (“One-track”) built by his dad

GSX-R750T CrawleySometimes you don't have to ride a bike far to realise it's special. I still vividly remember riding away from Suzuki's Crawley HQ on the new GSX-R750T back in 1996, tipping it into the first left-hander and thinking, 'blimey, this is how a sports bike should ste...

DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY'S police motorcycle unit is to be scrapped in a bid to save financial resources.Currently, the policemen on bikes were set to retire by the end of next year and it is decided that they will not be replaced due to budget

the headquarters of Triumph Motorcycles at Hinckley. I knew the bankrupt old company had been bought some years earlier by a wealthy builder named John Bloor, but had little idea that he’d done much with it.We were shown into what looked like just another giant

THE COUNTDOWN to the Carole Nash Motorcycle Live is ticking away and many of us will soon get a glimpse of the exciting new models for 2011.Heading the bunch, in our uniformed opinion, is the delectable MV Agusta F3. The exotica supersport machine