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Q&A: Police ‘legal exemption’
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Q. My daily ride is a Triumph Street Triple 765 RS. I have about a 10-mile commute with the latter part along a busy high street to my office (I am an estate agent). I had just passed a double-decker bus which had stopped, unsurprisingly, at a bus stop. As I had just pulled back…
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Q&A: Beware of ‘Operation Snap’
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Q. I have been a biker for the last 40-odd years and had all sorts over the years from BSAs to VFRs. Now I am a bit older and have a bit more money, I entered the Gold Wing era of my life about two years ago. It was something I thought I would never…
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ROYAL ENFIELD: Bear 650
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Named after the Big Bear run desert race, which Royal Enfield won back in 1960 with 16-year-old racer Eddie Mulder, the Bear 650 is a softish street scrambler, based on the Interceptor 650. The Bear uses the same air-cooled 47bhp 650 twin as the firm’s other classically styled upper middleweight machines, but with a scrambler…
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KEEP WARM with Zerofit base layers
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Winter is the time for extensive base layer use, and these Zerofit garments are now being distributed by top kit firm Feridax, so will be much more widely available. The Zerofit Heatrub Ultimate kit claims to provide five times more warmth than standard base layers thanks to ‘heat thread’ technology within the material itself. And…
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AGV: Pista GP-RR Performance Carbon helmet
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AGV says this is an exact replica of the lids worn by the folks in MotoGP – which goes some way to excusing the chunky price tag. It’s the top-end 100 per cent carbon fibre FIM-approved race lid from the Italian helmet brand and is packed with high-end features. You get a titanium double D-ring…
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TECH TALK: More revs, more power
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Alan Dowds has had his brain fried by 221bhp at 15,250rpm… He explains: Ducati’s Panigale V4R makes massive power, thanks to a sky-high rev limit. How does it do it? And why are revs so important for power? Let’s find out. I freely confess that I’m a bit jaded and cynical these days. It takes…
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Noyce and world-champion-winning bike reunited at Telford
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The first-ever Honda World Championship-winning motocross bike, Graham Noyce’s legendary 1979 RC500, will be showcased at The Classic Dirt Bike Show sponsored by Hagon, taking place on February 8-9, 2025, at the Telford International Centre! At the close of 1978, Honda Racing Corporation (HRC) focused all its efforts on developing a groundbreaking bike capable of…
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From the TT to GP: Racing royalty Jim Redman at the Bristol Classic MotorCycle Show
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Motorcycling legends are set to take centre stage at this year’s Bristol Classic MotorCycle Show, taking place on February 22–23, 2025, at the Bath & West Showground. In an exciting addition to an already star-studded lineup, six-time World Champion and Isle of Man TT winner Jim Redman will be joining fellow racing icons Alex George…
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ARCHIVE: The frames of the 1993 GP season
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VJMC’s Steve Cooper remembers… The best-laid plans of mice and men – things went a little sideways for Yamaha at the start of the 1993 season and didn’t end well either. With everyone pretty much happy with the revised big bang motors, the factory decided to focus on the chassis. Using extruded alloy sections rather…
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BUYING A USED Kawasaki ZZR1400
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Jon Urry tells us what we need to know… If you want serious performance, you need a ZZR… There is an old adage that goes, ‘There is no replacement for displacement’ – a statement that rings very true when it comes to Kawasaki’s mind-bending hyperbike, the ZZR1400. Although when the supercharged H2 SX was launched…
