Tony Carter
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Triumph Motorcycles launches bike insurance for its 80,000 UK owners
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Triumph Motorcycles has launched two new, tailor-made insurance products, developed to meet the needs of its 80,000 UK owners. Enhancing the Triumph purchase and ownership experience, Triumph Insurance and Triumph Insurance Plus policies provide our riders with fully comprehensive insurance at an affordable price. Triumph Insurance, which is administered by one of the UK’s…
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Video: Guy Martin says he’s only at the North West 200 to: “Get signatures. It’s a means to an end.”
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Terrific BBC journalist Stephen Watson is covering the North West 200 road races for the channel right now (go and see it at BBC NI in the channel’s excellent ongoing coverage of the event) and last night he caught a few minutes with a chatty Guy Martin. You can watch this very interesting bit of…
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Video: Police rider highsides out of Royal Cavalcade escort job in London
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https://youtu.be/USdUeTXAvZI Footage has emerged showing a police motorcyclist flung from his bike while escorting a member of the Royal family on Waterloo Bridge, London. The embarrassing incident happened on Monday while specialist officers from the Met Police escorted an unnamed member of the monarchy during a drive through London. The police rider is not believed…
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Saroléa confirms carbon electric racebike for this year’s Zero TT race
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If you’ve watched the TT Zero race, the single lap competitive outing for electric bikes held every year on The Isle of Man, then you’ll have heard of the Belgian outfit Saroléa. The firm has competed on The Island three times before in the Zero race and it’s now announced that it will be part of…
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BikeSafe takes delivery of ten Ducati Multistrada 1200s
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RAF Brize Norton was the location for the official handover of ten Ducati Multistrada 1200 motorcycles to BikeSafe, a police led initiative to reduce the number of motorcyclists involved in accidents on the road by improving skills, knowledge and hazard awareness. The location was also chosen to highlight BikeSafe’s partnership with the RAF that will…
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Get ready for the return of a Long Way with Charley and Ewan! Boorman says a third one could happen
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Motorcycling man Charley Boorman has said that he and Ewan McGregor could do a third Long Way motorcycle trip. The popular part-time Adventurer made the announcement on BBC Radio 5 live’s programme with Nihal Arthanayake and Sarah Brett. During the chat Boorman told the presenters: “We always talked about doing a third one, whether that’s South…
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MotoGP: Rossi from 22nd quickest: “We think we’ve solved the problems”
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Championship leader Valentino Rossi (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP) had a difficult time with tyres in the Spanish GP, but despite finishing the post-race test in P21, the ‘Doctor’ found some positivity and solutions to his problems. The Italian legend tried a range of rubber during his 62 laps of the Jerez, and set a best of…
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MotoGP: JerezTest: Viñales and Marquez split by 0.002 at the top
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After Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda Team) took his first win of the year on Sunday, bikes were back out on track the following day for the Jerez Test – the first post-race test of the year. The tyre allocation for the test was the same as available throughout the weekend, plus an extra front option…
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Reports: Volkswagen (again) looking to sell Ducati
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It’s a story that we’ve heard before (the end of last year, for example) and – it’s worth stressing this – recent news is nothing more at the moment than mere talk in the financial press world, but the money papers have reported that Volkswagen is looking at selling Ducati. The news comes as Volkswagen starts…
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Vinales crashes, Cal third quickest, Jack Miller second and Dani stays on top at Jerez!
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Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda Team) topped a wet FP1 in the Red Bull Gran Premio de España, before conditions improved dramatically for a dry FP2 with the same name at the top. The three-time World Champion did a 1:39.420 to go quickest by over half a second, with a stunning laptime from Jack Miller (Estrella…
