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  • Fast Bikes Latest Issue OUT NOW

    Fast Bikes Latest Issue OUT NOW

    This month we see the big kahuna, the Fast Bikes Sportbike of the Year test. For those unfamiliar with the best test in the world, we take the ten best sportsbikes on the planet and spend two days on one of the best tracks in the world in the attempt to declare one of these…

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  • The Greatest Roads in Britain Part 2 – With Dunlop

    The Greatest Roads in Britain Part 2 – With Dunlop

    We’re back with part two of our ‘Greatest Roads in Britain’ – the B4391… This time around with our rubbery Dunlop friends, we’re looking at the B4391 between Bala and Ffestiniog, which features some stunning backdrops and a whole lot of curves to conquer too. Better yet, is that it’s usually pretty quiet with little…

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  • WSBK Sepang 2016 Gallery – Kel Edge

    WSBK Sepang 2016 Gallery – Kel Edge

    We had some cracking racing from Sepang, with Sykes back on the top step in race one and Hayden crafting a beautiful maiden win in the class in a rather wet race 2. Rea managed to extend his championship lead, and although Lowes had a big off in race two, found some good pace on…

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  • HIGH OCTANE THRILLS AT SANTA POD THIS SPRING

    HIGH OCTANE THRILLS AT SANTA POD THIS SPRING

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    THERE’S less than a month to go until Race, Rock ‘n’ Ride – the brand-new biking extravaganza from Santa Pod Raceway, Fast Bikes and Backstreet Heroes. Race, Rock ’n’ Ride, sponsored by Principal Insurance, will take place on the weekend of May 21-22, offering two days of non-stop biking action at one of the world’s most…

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  • 10 MT-10 Facts

    10 MT-10 Facts

    We’re back from the launch of the Yamaha MT-10, and boy have we got a report for you to read in the next issue. But before that we thought we’d furnish you with ten quick facts about then MT-10. 1.  It uses the R1’s motor. Well, most of it. Yamaha claims it changed 40 per…

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  • Fast Bikes – Out Now!

    Fast Bikes – Out Now!

    It’s not all fancy launches, spanking new bikes and sunshine at Fast Bikes. In fact, there’s nothing we like more than getting some cracking used bikes and heading out to our favourite local roads. That’s what we did this month, choosing four classic machines – that have surprisingly un-classic price tags. Whether it was a…

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  • Experience the excitement – World Ducati Week 2016 is coming up!

    Experience the excitement – World Ducati Week 2016 is coming up!

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    Celebrating 90 years as a brand, Ducati are back and looking to make this World Ducati Week the biggest so far as the iconic marque descends on the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli once again. Taking place every two years, World Ducati Week looks to celebrate the passion and pride of all avenues within the…

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  • Just released: T12 Massimo – The ultimate superbike?!

    Just released: T12 Massimo – The ultimate superbike?!

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    Does the name Massimo Tamburini ring a bell? Well it should. Not only did he play a role in the creation of Bimota, but he designed two of arguably the most iconic and beautiful machines laden with two wheels: the Ducati 916 and the MV Agusta F4. So how can you top that? Give the…

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  • The racing weekend round-up: World Superbikes

    The racing weekend round-up: World Superbikes

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    After a manic weekend at Assen, the World Superbike circus descended on the historic Imola circuit in Italy (or Ducati’s back garden) for the next chapter in the currently Brit-dominated series. It may not have been the mental racing we were hoping for, but we saw some impressive rides and a real emergence of an…

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  • Try out new-look Fast Bikes for free!

    Try out new-look Fast Bikes for free!

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    We know how frustrating it can be trying to read a magazine on your smartphone – all that ‘pinch and zoom’ malarkey isn’t much fun – so we’ve been working with the lovely boys and girls at PocketMags to bring you something new, shiny and much easier to read. And, finally, it’s here! This month,…

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  • The racing weekend round-up: MotoGP

    The racing weekend round-up: MotoGP

    This weekend we had a very interesting MotoGP at Jerez under that Spanish sun. So what (and who) went down? Who were the winners and losers? We give you a definitive round up of it all right here… Excitement factor: 5/10 – The Spanish Grand Prix is one that has thrown us a bundle of…

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  • Podcast: Exclusive interview with Mason Law

    Podcast: Exclusive interview with Mason Law

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    In association with Kawasaki. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN Mason Law is the hottest, newest property in the British Supersport Championship for 2016. We caught up with the Gearlink Kawasaki star to go through everything in his racing head at the start of the season.

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  • SANTA POD RACEWAY GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY IN 2016

    SANTA POD RACEWAY GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY IN 2016

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    In 2016, Santa Pod Raceway celebrates its 50th birthday. On Easter Monday 1966, Europe’s first permanent dragstrip opened its gates for business, a fact which still surprises some who imagine drag racing to be a recent fad. Drag racing arrived in Britain in the early 1960s. American all-star teams toured in 1964 and 1965, racing on airfield…

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  • The racing weekend round-up: World Superbikes

    The racing weekend round-up: World Superbikes

    This weekend World Superbikes descended on Assen, for the second hit in a run of European rounds and gave everyone an excuse to love this championship again. If you have lost interest in the racing, then get that box on and enjoy the show. Okay, Rea might’ve done the double, but it really wasn’t that…

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  • The life of a racer… Blog 4!

    The life of a racer… Blog 4!

    WE MADE IT TO SILVERSTONE! If you read my last blog, you’d of seen I made a bit of a mess. We ended up taking the bike back in a bunch of pieces wondering if it was all just a big nightmare. Yet, somehow, after a week of hard work and doubt we made it…

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