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Supercar club giving away MV Agustas

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Alan Dowds

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11th February 2019

Spend £26k to join Auto-Vivendi Lambo/Ferrari/Rolls/Aston Martin hire club, get free £16k Brutale, Dragster, Turismo Veloce MONEY GOES to money, as the old saying runs. So it is here, with London-based supercar club Auto-Vivendi, which is giving away a free MV Agusta with every full club membership sold this February. You can pick from the…
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FANCY A FOGGY PETRONAS FP1?

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Carl Stevens

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8th February 2019

Yep, remember those? Well one is going up for its first ever public auction… If Carlsberg did rare superbikes, then they wouldn’t come much rarer than this. And yeah, the whole racing part didn’t go exactly to plan with not one single win, but they still had a pretty sexual spec sheet that would make…
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DUCATI UK GIVING V4 OWNERS FREE BIKETRAC TRACKER…

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Alan Dowds

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5th February 2019

Bologna helping fight bike theft with free security trackers and insurance discounts FAIR PLAY to Ducati UK. The firm’s helping take on the bike thieves, by giving a free BikeTrac tracker, with a year’s subscription, to every customer who buys a Panigale V4, V4S or V4 Corse. Owners will also get a 15 per cent…
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WORLD’S BIGGEST CLASSIC MOTORCYCLE SHOW TO CELEBRATE 100 YEARS OF TT RACING!

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Sam Hewitt

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5th February 2019

Stafford International Classic MotorCycle Show returns in April with a special TT-themed spectacular.
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the craziest bike we’ve ever seen

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Alan Dowds

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31st January 2019

Upside-down two-litre triple, made from scratch by touched Italian engineer… ALBERT EINSTEIN’S definition of insanity was ‘doing the same thing over and over again, while expecting a different result’. So by that standard, what you’re seeing here is very much not insane. It’s nothing less than the wildest motorbike engine design we’ve seen in a…
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YAMAHA RELEASE CERTINA LIMITED EDITION WATCH

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Carl Stevens

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31st January 2019

Got yourself a nice Yamaha but don’t have the right watch to go with it? Well, read this way… Since the beginning of last year, the Swiss watch brand Certina have been tightly knitted to the Wilvo Yamaha MXGP squad, and they’ve just released a limited run of watches to celebrate the partnership. The watch…
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Ducati Boss CONFIRMS ELECTRIC BIKE ON THE WAY

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Alan Dowds

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22nd January 2019

Production of electric model coming soon says Claudio Domenicali speaking at electric bike competition LOATHE IT or hate it, electric bikes are on the way. And while we’ve not got much in the way of mainstream ‘leccy models at the moment – unlike the car world – they’re definitely coming. And Ducati could be at…
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2019 KAWASAKI ZX-6R FIRST MEGA-TEST TEASER & DYNO RUN!

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Carl Stevens

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18th January 2019

We’ve been working tirelessly this month ploughing the new ZX-6R through a 500-mile test on road, track and even against a big ol’ thou. Here’s a little teaser of what we’ve got lined up for you next month… Just when you thought that the Supersport sector was falling by the wayside, thanks to most of…
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Jonathan Rea backS Arenacross for Schools event in Belfast

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Alan Dowds

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17th January 2019

Indoor motocross race series supported by WSB champ and ex-dirtbike ace WHAT WAS the best school trip you went on in primary school? Science museum? Day at the seaside? Visit to Alton Towers? Well, we reckon 200 kids in Belfast topped the lot this week, with a visit to the SSE Arena to watch the…
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NEW YEAR, NEW BIKE RUMOURS FROM THE EAST, PART two

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Alan Dowds

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17th January 2019

Kawasaki set to expand Z900RS range with new/old GPZ900R according to Young Machine magazine in Japan To our chums at Young Machine magazine again, and their New Year roundup of plausible new bike rumours. Last week we saw a new 2020 Hayabusa – this time it’s Kawasaki’s turn, with a new GPz900R Ninja mockup, based…
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2019 APRILIA RSV4 1100 price revealed

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Alan Dowds

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15th January 2019

Wild 1.1 litre superbike will set you back more than £21k. Tuono 1100 with Ohlins EC semi-active suspension is £17k The good guys at Aprilia UK have been hard at it with the abacuses and the VisiCalc spreadsheet and come up with a price list for its sweet-looking 2019 range. The big story is of…
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New Year, New Bike Rumours from The East, part one

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Alan Dowds

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7th January 2019

New Suzuki Hayabusa for 2020 according to Japanese bike mag Young Machine (almost definitely)… We love the guys at Young Machine magazine in Japan – and they’re regularly on the ball when it comes to new bikes coming out of the big four firms over there. So it’s always worth paying attention to what they…
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BMW shows off new engine…

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Alan Dowds

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4th January 2019

…at a mad hipster custom show in Japan! Slept off the Xmas dinner yet? We’ve just about cleared the decks (although there’s a box of min Waitrose mince pies still unopened in the cupboard ffs), and getting set for 2019. One thing we missed just before Festivus, though, was this little gem. It was released…
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Cal Crutchlow switches to HJC lids for 2019

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Alan Dowds

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3rd January 2019

Brit MotoGP hero moves from long term helmet supplier Arai. This is a bit of a surprise – Cal Crutchlow’s been an Arai man for as long as we can remember here, certainly back to his British Supersport days. A quick check in the archives shows him wearing AGV, OGK and Arashi before then, in…
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NEW Retro Arai Rapide Neo helmet unveiled in Japan

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Alan Dowds

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27th December 2018

Japanese lid-gurus unveil 80s-inspired helmet YOU might have noticed that things have been a little quiet round here this week. Yes, we’re all living das Yuletide dream, visiting the rellies, eating our own bodyweight in Hotel Chocolat finery, and pouring unfeasible amounts of lightly-adulterated ethanol down our necks. Luckily though, the lovely folks in Japan…
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