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  • Points West – 1300 miles by Ducati Monster

    Points West – 1300 miles by Ducati Monster

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    Cambridgeshire to Cornwall…via Northern Ireland – 1300 miles by Ducati Monster in a Covid summer

  • Bonhams Autumn Sale – This weekend!

    Bonhams Autumn Sale – This weekend!

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    This year the two-day mega autumn sale at the Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Show, 15th & 16th October, Stafford Showground,  features an extraordinary collection of 31 speedway motorcycles, reflecting the glory years of a sport once the second most popular in the UK. The Forshaw Speedway Collection represents 60 years of speedway history from its beginnings…

  • EVENTS: Test ride a Segway e-scooter. Lincoln. This weekend.

    EVENTS: Test ride a Segway e-scooter. Lincoln. This weekend.

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    If coffee beans and battery-powered scooters are your bag, you need to keep your diary free this weekend. Segway might be best known for its funky self-balancing ‘personal transporters’, but in recent years the American-founded, Chinese-owned firm has been working away on a range of scooters and motorcycles. And the first models to make it…

  • Oct 15th/16th! Stafford Show: Much more than just great bikes..

    Oct 15th/16th! Stafford Show: Much more than just great bikes..

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    This year’s Stafford Classic Bike Show is just brimming with stuff to see and do. In amongst the thousands of classic bikes and trade stands, we’ve got brilliant live music from the Daisy Belles, banging out hits from the 70s, 80s and 90s. There’s the UK’s finest freestyle motocross stunt display team in the Main…

  • My bike: 2001 Honda CBR600F

    My bike: 2001 Honda CBR600F

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    Mid-weight solution to mid-life desires WORDS: Mikko Nieminen PHOTOGRAPHY: Gary Chapman When I got my full motorcycle licence I was riding around on a Yamaha RX-S 80. It was the perfect city bike for commuting in London, and just about agreeable for little adventures outside the city. I loved that bike. But I had a…

  • Nine to Five – 200-mile Scotland day ride

    Nine to Five – 200-mile Scotland day ride

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    200-mile round trip to the Scottish seaside is a good day’s work – artists, old planes and a million cockle shells WORDS & PHOTOGRAPHY: Willie Davidson I’ve got a 675cc Triumph Street Triple R. It’s a hoot to ride and from three miles into the first test ride, I’ve loved it. However, one of the…

  • Cost-effective classics! Suzuki GT250

    Cost-effective classics! Suzuki GT250

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    Suzuki’s GT250 – well worth a look! Steve Cooper investigates.. Back when learners could ride 250s the market was hugely competitive. Everyone had a favourite and for a variety of reasons but there’s no denying which bike sold in the greatest numbers – Suzuki’s GT250. At the height of the 1970s more GT250s were sold…

  • Phil Read MBE 1939 – 2022

    Phil Read MBE 1939 – 2022

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    Phil Read MBE, ‘The Prince of Speed’, died on Thursday morning. 

  • Kawasaki’s TWO electric bikes are coming soon

    Kawasaki’s TWO electric bikes are coming soon

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    Kawasaki could be poised to become the first big name Japanese factory to reveal a range of electric motorcycles. Recent reports suggest that we’re not going to have to wait too much longer for the first glimpse of the launch of a pair of new battery-powered learner-legal machines from the manufacturer. It shouldn’t come as…

  • Introducing the new Vespa GTS

    Introducing the new Vespa GTS

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    The birth of a new Vespa is always an epic event because it continues an incredibly successful history founded on values of style and technology. 

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