Alan Dowds

WIN BIG @ Spidi’s New UK Website!

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Alan Dowds

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5th May 2017

Oh yes indeed – to celebrate the launch of Spidi’s new UK Website at www.spidiuk.com, they’re offering the chance to win a prize worth over £2,500 including £1,000 of Spidi gear! That’s rather nice of them, wouldn’t you say? Yes, so would we… So, what’s on offer, then? How does a paid-for trip for two,…
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WIN! A Donington WSB Weekend Extravaganza with Red Bull Honda & Barracuda!

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Alan Dowds

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13th April 2017

That’s right, here’s your chance to dine (and much more) at the Red Bull Hospitality table at Donington’s WSB event – VIP style! We’ve teamed up with the official Red Bull Honda WSB squad and their technical partner, Barracuda, to offer you the chance to experience a brilliant day out at Donington’s World Superbike round…
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Bridgestone Returns To World Championship Racing!

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Alan Dowds

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8th February 2017

After years of supplying MotoGP with rather grippy circular black things that go round and round, Bridgestone are not now kicking back, sinking some sake and resting on their laurels. Rather, they’re back in world series racing, specifically, the World Endurance Championship, to continue to drive their product forwards. Here’s the press release regarding their…
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Ducati Sales Up For 2016!

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Alan Dowds

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25th January 2017

Ducati Motor Holding enjoyed yet another great year sales-wise in 2016, which saw 55,451 motorcycles delivered to their customers. This meant a 1.2% increase over their 2015 output, which means they’re still going in the right direction we guess! Obviously, this made Ducati CEO (and big cheese) Claudio Domenicali rather happy… “Ending the year of…
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Marc Marquez – Red Bull MotoGP Snow Riding!

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Alan Dowds

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19th January 2017

Yes indeed, in one of those ‘what can we do for PR during the winter’ campaigns, Red Bull talked Marc Marquez into riding his spike-shod RCV in the snow! Here’s the first quick clip… Then there’s the slightly extended version, featuring more riding clips – gotta give it to Marquez, the boy barely holds back…
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Guy Martin’s 2017 TT Return – With Honda!

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Alan Dowds

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18th January 2017

Guy Martin will be riding for Honda at the North West 200 and the TT, alongside John McGuiness in the official team for 2017! It’s a bit of a turnaround for Guy after his huge crash at Dundrod in 2015, and it seemed like his TV work was going to take precedence. Yet this latest…
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New 2017 Triumph Street Triple 765!

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Alan Dowds

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10th January 2017

Oh yes, Triumph have finally shown us what we’ve known has been coming for some time now – The new 2017 Triumph Street Triple range! And there’s not just one, but three versions of the larger 765cc naked hustlers available too, begging the question – which one would sir or madam prefer? Released this very…
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2016 Yamaha MT-10 Longtermer – Video Catchup!

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Alan Dowds

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5th January 2017

We’ve just a few months left with our longterm Yamaha MT-10, and it’s been utterly brilliant, so here’s a quick round-up of what we’ve done to her thus far… Episode 1 – Time for some noise! BJ takes the bike to SP Engineering to get the first of two SP exhausts (y-piece & can) fitted.…
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New 2017 Ducati 1299 Superleggera!

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Alan Dowds

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7th November 2016

It’s finally here, in full, after being leaked left right and centre over the last few weeks – the new 2017 Ducati 1299 Superleggera! And it doesn’t disappoint either, with a specification worthy of a factory WSB or MotoGP hack and in some areas, it supersedes even those illustrious machines. Wow, just wow… The big…
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2017 Ducati Supersport

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Alan Dowds

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4th October 2016

Ducati is re-entering the not-quite-mental fray with the release of a new SuperSport bike. This was the machine that sat in a box during World Ducati Week at Misano, so there’s a fair chance that some of you will have seen it already. And in another way, we think that we’ve seen it already as…
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Cool Fab Racing – Everything you need to know about the junior Superbike series!

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Alan Dowds

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30th September 2016

With the announcement of an eighth Superbike team supporting youngsters at grassroots, we decided to bring you guys a little up to speed with whole concept of this epic idea… So whats the deal? Basically, think of it as a mini British Superbike Championship; a partnership between FAB Racing (who have developed some of Britain’s…
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The life of a racer…Blog 3!

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Alan Dowds

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13th April 2016

Two days of testing before round one – What could possibly go wrong? If you read my last blog, you’d of seen that we had the two official British Superbike tests at Silverstone and Donington Park, before heading back to Silverstone for round one a week later. After some sweet track time in Spain I…
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