Mark Lancaster
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Explore the world with Royal Enfield
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Royal Enfield have announced a renewal of their partnership with travel company Vintage Rides to provide motorcycling holidays across the globe until at least 2025. Vintage Rides have operated more than 1000 guided tours on the Indian-built motorcycles since 2006, visiting almost 20 countries across four continents. These include France, Italy, Argentina and Morocco, but…
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Test ride a Norton – from your house
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Norton’s new service aims to make it a doddle to test ride the new Commandos. Here’s how: The resurgent British firm has just announced a cool new service which offers the chance to get a brand-new £16,499 Commando 961 Sport or £16,999 Commando Café Racer straight to your door for a test ride. Since being…
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Hydrogen Future?
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Honda team up with General Motors Honda and General Motors are the latest firms to reveal plans to get stuck into some hydrogen fuel cell research – and we’re here for it. With the increasingly urgent need for emissions-free vehicles, we’ve started to see more and more battery-powered machines making it to market. But there’s…
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Peugeot’s SUV Scooter
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The French firm is ready to challenge some stiff maxi-scooter competition Peugeot’s XP400 Allure and GT are the latest scoots to get in on the adventure act – with rugged styling (and even off-road tyres for the GT) similar to Honda’s ADV350 and Kymco’s DTX360 320. The biggest scooters in Peugeot’s range, they’re powered by…
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Husqvarna Norden 901 gets Expedition-ready
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Husqvarna has just released a new, trick version of its Norden 901 adventure bike – and it’s fitted with a whole host of additional goodies to make it better suited to racking up the big miles and having a proper explore. First revealed in prototype form back in 2019, the Husqvarna Norden 901 had plenty…
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Stylish New Suzuki Scooter Commuters
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Suzuki’s stylish new Avenis and Address scooters aren’t just nippy little things that fly through towns, they can keep up with traffic when the road opens up too. But as well as their traffic busting prowess, their 9bhp motors positively sip fuel. Suzuki claim they can do 148mpg! I can’t vouch for that, but after…
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Yamaha switch was no fairytale for Agostini
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Tempting a certain suave World Champion to make the move from MV Agusta should have been enough to help Yamaha dominate the top flight of racing. But there was still work to be done to make its 500cc Grand Prix machine seriously competitive. VJMC’s Steve Cooper explains… Following the triumphant first and third at the 1973…
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Legal Q&A: Court for chap who taxed wrong bike
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Q We are very fortunate and both I and my partner have a bike each in the garage (we bought matching MT-09s a few years ago). As summer was ending, I made a Statutory Off Road Notice (SORN) declaration for both bikes around last September. However, as we had a mild October I got road…
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Legal Q&A: Snow from car floors biker
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Q I am an all-year-round biker doing about 40,000 miles a year whether it be rain, sunshine or snow. To be blunt, I do not have a choice because I do not have a car, so the bike is it. Whilst it snowed at the back end of last year, the roads were generally pretty…
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Legendary Learner – the C90!
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Bob Pickett takes a look at Honda’s C90. ‘The World’s Greatest Motorcycle’? An outrageous boast for something under 100cc that barely tops 50mph? Consider this. Manufactured in 1958, in 2018, the 100 MILLIONTH bike rolled out of the factory. It is still being made today (in fewer locations admittedly, now ‘just’ 15 plants worldwide) wherever…
