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The Six Sexiest Bimotas
By Roland Brown on 20/12/2010 11:04:40
Their business history may be erratic and their electronics legendarily so, but the one thing Bimota have always been able to do is bolt together a damn fine-looking motorcycle. Here’s the six sexiest bikes they ever built.
the entire company.You’d have to be a real optimist to invest in a company whose history is turbulent even by the shaky standards of the Italian bike industry.Even now the UK situation is grim. The last importer, Hoss Elm of Moto Cinelli, sold just two
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Carry On Doctor - Valentino Rossi interview
By Gordon Ritchie & Niall Mackenzie on 21/05/2009 16:13:23
Against the odds, Rossi took Yamaha's mediocre M1 to MotoGP victory in 2004. He talks to Mackenzie about riding, winning and shoe shopping...
including football and I particularly like Ronaldo, so when it is possible I go to see him play.In motor sport I am a big fan of the World Rally Championship and I think drivers like Colin (McRae) and Carlos Sainz are impressive. When I competed in the UK
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Sticks and Stones - Red Bull Romaniacs
By Geoff Walker on 12/07/2011 11:09:58
Set in Dracula’s own backyard, Romaniacs is five days of sheer hell for bikes and riders as enduro racers from all over the world tackle the toughest race in the world
of KTM UK, in the shape of an ’09 300 EXC two stroke, complete with the electric start. I raced the ’07 race on a 300 EXC and it proved to be a great tool for this event, taking my sometimes slightly angry self (people call me Angry Geoff, I don’t know
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Rider Support
By Gavin Day on 05/06/2010 10:42:24
Find out about the solicitors who have been specialising in motorcycle accident claims since 1994
for experienced and independent advice... Ride OnCall 02082464900 or email membership@ridersupport.co.uk“I am most greatful for all of your hard work on my behalf and I have been extolling the benefits of RSS to every motorcyclist I can lay my hands on!”B. Finerty
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Harley V-Rod vs. Thundersprint
By Mark Shippey on 05/11/2010 10:36:08
Mark 'Thunderpants' Shippey performs for 75,000 spectators at the seventh annual Thundersprint
to race in front of a crowd this size, so we indulged in our moment of fame.Thank you to Frank and Carol Melling and the Vale Royal Borough Council for an excellent event. For more information on the Thundersprint, or how to start sprinting, log onto www.thundersprint.co.uk
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Motorcycle Radar: 1987
By Roland Brown on 06/12/2010 14:04:17
Roland Brown is a world class swordsman, entertainer, poet, scientist, boxer, ladies' man and motorcycle journalist. Only one of those is true.
-designed Bullet was freshly imported to the UK from India with updates to the paintwork, electrics and brakes - or so I'd been told before setting off from the importers in Croydon. But when I got to the end of the road, the near total lack of stopping power meant
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The Brits Abroad: GSX-RBoyz across Germany
By John Hogan on 20/10/2010 16:42:20
Football wasn’t the only reason to cross the Channel this summer. A gang of the maddest GSX-R riders in Britain descended on Germany for some of the finest riding in the Ruhr. And we went along for the ride
for riders of all types of bikes , but it was the offer of a proper sports-touring holiday with a bunch of lunatics from a GSX-R mob that sounded appealing to me “This is where the sports bike riders from the UK come for a holiday,” chuckled Kevin.Last time I
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Scotland's Coast by Coast
By Gordon Ritchie on 22/08/2004 16:43:18
Gordon Ritchie finds the finest four days of biking he's had in a long time. Keep the salt air on your left and batter on 'til sundown
in the UK, in Kilmartin Glen.Unaware even yet of the task ahead, we stopped for a wee half pint at the picturesque location of the Kilmelford Hotel - with Loch Melfort stretching out below us like some long-gone Celtic giant's personal Jacuzzi.Continue
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Motorcycle Theft - There for the taking
By Bertie Simmonds on 06/05/2007 13:44:55
"Brand new R1, one stupid owner, free to anyone with bolt croppers and a van..." Bike theft isn't going away, but things are changing - and you can at least do something about it
costs insurers Carole Nash £7.5 million each year. Little wonder when you realise a motorcycle or scooter is stolen every 16 minutes in the UK. More than 54,000 two-wheelers are stolen every year, of which more than 60 per cent are scooters.More bikes
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Should Triumph make a superbike?
By Visordown News on 12/03/2012 14:40:49
A high-performance machine now could make sense
manage to hang on to an aura of “high-end” product.Now, with more R&D facilities and finances than ever in its history, the ability to produce bikes not only in the UK but in Asia and a range that's as modern and complete as virtually any rival, Triumph
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