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Ellison and Laverty sign for McAMS Yamaha
Team Traction Control are finally making the long awaited step up to the MCE British Superbike class for next season, signing James Ellison and Michael Laverty for their 2017 campaign – alongside Tarran Mackenzie in Supersport to become the factory backed squad for the coming season. Following their success with multiple wins in both the…
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New 2017 Ducati 1299 Superleggera!
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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Fast Bikes magazine is looking for a new Editor
The UK’s best sports bike magazine is looking for a new Editor. The perfect candidate will be an experienced journalist; organised, influential, and as good at planning, subbing, commissioning and briefing as they are at writing and riding faster-than-most without crashing. A geek-like knowledge of sports bikes past and present plus the technical understanding to…
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Boots… A selection of the best!
Hot off the heels (get it?!) of our gloves special, we follow up with some super sweet boots this time around. It would appear on the outside, that crafting a proper set of boots is a lot easier than making decent gloves. We’d all be forgiven for thinking that the case, but it just isn’t.…
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Video Cameras – Top Ten
Videoing yourself riding has become all the rage these days, hasn’t it? How far we’ve come since those huge VHS tape recorders, it completely boggles the mind for us older crew! Folk use these gizmos for many reasons, whether you want to wank over skills (© Al Fagan…) after a thrash around track or a…
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Race Gloves… A selection of the best!
The hand is a brilliant bit of evolution, we think you’d all agree? That opposed thumb we possess certainly has much to answer for regarding our scorchio development as a species and now, in the modern age, every digit is more important than ever considering all the sodding buttons we push on a daily basis.…
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Life of a racer… Blog 11!
Jesus, here we are, getting psyched up for the last round of 2016. Feels like only yesterday I was spewing letters on a word document about how awesome testing was; and now we are at the end of the road. Brands is always a mental weekend for us as its only just down the road;…
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Life of a racer… Blog 10!
Still buzzing from Oulton, our next venture was the completely bonkers TT Circuit Assen; or the Cathedral of Speed as it’s so beautifully known. One of the best tracks on our calendar and indeed in the world for the next round of the Ducati Tri-Options Cup… It’s also one of the hardest rounds though as…
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Brand new Triumph on the way for 2017…
Alright, I know it’s not a brand new sports bike, but Triumph have released their take on the Bobber; the first of its kind from the new range. Taking the likes of Harley and Indian head on, Triumph have really gone to town on the new model, which is set to be released in 2017.…
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Shoei: NXR Bradley TC-1
Shoei’s midrange helmet is a thing of beauty, especially in these Bradders colours. The lid uses its own design shell, so it’s not borrowed from anything else in the range. It uses a two-liner absorption system to keep your noggin safe in an impact, is quiet thanks to hours spent in the wind tunnel to…
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Remus: Hypercone Slip On
No doubt that MT-10 owners will be wanting to fit something with more fruit to the side of their machines in the coming hours, days, weeks and months, and German grunt giants Remus have just the thing. This Hypercone slip on (when mated to the optional de cat pipe – at £189) offers power gains…
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KTM: Rev Clock
The latest Powerwear catalogue from KTM came through the post the other day (yeah – post, remember that?!), and it’s always amusing to see what the Austrians have been up to while out on the schnapps. What caught our eye was the Rev Clock, an item that would look perfect up on a workshop wall…
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The Greatest Roads In Britain Part 3 – With Dunlop
Part 3 of our Greatest Roads series, in association with Dunlop, is here! This time it’s Duke’s Pass on the A821 in Stirlingshire… Most decent biking roads are fabled routes etched into the minds of most motorcyclists. Even if you’ve not abused them, you’ll know about them, have had mates gas on about them, and…
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November 2016 – Issue 320
FEATURES 8 2017 NEW MACHINERY REVEALED Say hello to a new Suzuki GSX-R1000, Honda Fireblade, new beemers and much more new metal! 22 TRIUMPH THRUXTON R Our first shot on Triumph sexual retro machine. It’s perplexing, we’ll give it that! 40 DON’T CALL US LIGHTWEIGHT MT-07 takes on KTM’S Duke 690, a Kwak ER-6F and…
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2017 Ducati Supersport
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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