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Watch – 2017 Yamaha R6 – Episode 1 – Charlie’s Blog

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Alan Dowds

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8th December 2017

Yes indeed, joining BJ’s Suzuki GSX-R1000R is Charlie with a new series of regular video blogs on Yamaha’s new YZF R6! Lucky guy, huh? Charlie will be riding, rating and modifying the bike over the coming months, so if anyone out there has anything they’d like him to try out on it, do get in…
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Quick Product Focus – Bull-It Kid’s Jeans!

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Alan Dowds

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8th December 2017

If one really must take the fruit of their loins on the back of a motorcycle, you won’t need to be told that they need protecting, too, will you? Well, we say that, but we’ve seen plenty of kids on the back of sportsbikes in tracksuits or unsuitable kit before… Bull-It do a range of…
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Suzuki Announce Three-Year Warranty Period Extension

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Alan Dowds

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7th December 2017

Suzuki has let it be known to all, that there’s an extension to the 3-year warranty period it is currently offering across all its new models – that’s nice of them isn’t it? Any bike purchased in 2018 will have an extra year added on to the standard Suzuki 2-year warranty period which, we think,…
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Silver Dream Racer – Blu-ray Review!

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Alan Dowds

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6th December 2017

To be quite honest, it took us by surprise to learn that Silver Dream Racer was getting the Blu-ray treatment with a brand new transfer. Why? Because, well, it wasn’t particularly well received when it came out in the first place, way back during 1980… I remember watching this when I was a kid, towards…
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Quick Product Focus – Muc-Off Polishing Ball Kit

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Alan Dowds

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6th December 2017

Muc-Off’s new £34.99 ‘polishing ball kit’ is slated to make cleaning that bit easier and to quote the official press release – for tough jobs, you need a tough tool… It’s been designed to help you clean hard to reach areas, quickly, on both smooth and textured surfaces and is apparently perfect for polishing duties,…
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Battlefield Tour Part Deux – Out Now!

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Alan Dowds

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6th December 2017

In the current issue of our fabulous magazine, one can find part II of our Battlefield Tour series, where we take a bunch of varied and cool bikes across to France, to check out WWII sites and have a good thrash! In 2016 we rode down to St Nazaire to the site of the ‘Greatest…
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QUICK PRODUCT FOCUS – HJC IS MAX II ‘DOVA’

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Alan Dowds

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5th December 2017

HJC Helmets, via their spiffing Oxford Products partner here in the UK, has released the latest version of their IS MAX II helmet, the ‘Dova’, a flip-front lid starting at an RRP of £179.99! It’s a flip-front made from an advanced polycarbonate-composite shell, with an adjustable polycarbonate chin-bar and has, yes, a drop-down internal dark…
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Used 2005-07 KTM 950 SM – OUT NOW!

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Alan Dowds

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4th December 2017

In the current edition of our most excellent magazine, one will find a used test on KTM’s daft 950 SM – did anybody say really big (and therefore really very clever), stonking wheelies?! Yep, this orange beastie was, and remains, a proper weapon. In the right hands it can keep modern sports tackle honest on…
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Moto Time Attack Returns to Cadwell Park – July 2018!

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Alan Dowds

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4th December 2017

Put the dates in your calendars people, and avid track day’ers, Moto Time Attack returns to Cadwell Park on the 13th – 15th July 2018! After a successful launch at Cadwell earlier this year, where we turned up and had a crack along with a lot of you guys, Guy Martin and other racing luminaries,…
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Kriega R35 Backpack – Review

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Alan Dowds

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1st December 2017

Hands up those who own a Kriega rucksack/ backpack, and don’t absolutely love it? At a guess I’d say pretty few to none at all would be raising their pinkies skywards, because Kreiga’s product is top drawer! I’ve used this £169 R35 variant for three years now, easily marking over 30,000 miles in all conditions…
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Watch – NUVIZ Heads-up Display – Unboxing Video!

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Alan Dowds

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30th November 2017

We’ve just got hold of a NUVIZ heads-up display unit to try out, so have begun with an unboxing video to see what your £619 gets you in the box! Some may blanche at the price, but wait, there’s more! This isn’t just a heads-up display: it’s a sat-nav system, a media centre which links…
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Naked Attraction – Out Now!

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Alan Dowds

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29th November 2017

In the current issue of our awesome magazine OUT NOW (334, Dec ’17), we pit seven of the best middleweight nakeds against one another, to find out which is best! So, that would be Triumph’s new Street Triple RS, KTM’s 690 Duke R, Suzuki’s GSX-S750, Ducati’s Monster 821, Kawasaki’s Z900 ‘Performance Edition’, WK’s 650NK and…
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‘Ducati World’ Is Go!

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Alan Dowds

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28th November 2017

Well, Ferrari has ‘Ferrari World’ in Abu Dhabi, so we suppose it’s just desserts that Ducati get their own theme park ‘world’ too, nay? And they are, at Mirabilandia Leisure Park in the Emilia-Romagna region! So, one won’t have to fly for too many hours to go visit whatever this turns out to be like,…
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Triple WSB Champ’ Jonathan Rea Makes BBC Sports Personality Of The Year Award Shortlist!

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Alan Dowds

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28th November 2017

Another of those things to be filed under ‘about bloody time too…’, three-time WSB champion Jonny Rea is on the shortlist for the BBC’s Sports Personality Of The Year Awards! Following a big push by insurers Carole Nash (great work!), via an e-petition, Rea has indeed been included in the line-up which also features four-time…
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Big Bad Blowers – Out Now!

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Alan Dowds

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27th November 2017

In the current issue of the magazine OUT NOW (334, Dec 17), we pit two big blown bads against each other – Kawasaki’s supercharged 193bhp H2 and a bespoke 429bhp Suzuki GSX-R1000 K5! We could be about to see a serious input of fresh air, if you’ll pardon the pun, into the production bike market…
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