An advert for Anchor butter shows a cow making a Steve McQueen style bid for freedom with a daredevil motorcycle jump. The tribute to one of the most famous bike scenes of all time from 'The Great Escape' differs from the original in a big way though - this time around he makes it and wheelies off into the sunset!
- Motorcycle News
- General news
- 23 January 2009
MotoGP World Champion Valentino Rossi tested a Ferrari Formula One car at Mugello yesterday as a gift from the Italian team for achieving his eighth championship title. Rossi apparently completed nearly 30 laps of the famous Italian circuit and recorded a respectable fastest lap time of 1 min 22.5 seconds. Rossi's lap time wasn't bad at all, considering that at Ferrari's last Mugello test F1 ...
- Motorcycle Sport
- MotoGP
- 21 November 2008
At a recent Rapid Training track day at Brands Hatch, instructor Andy Morrison took time out to give MCN some of his top tips on how to get the most out of your first track day. If you’ve never been out on a circuit before, your first track day can be a very daunting prospect. But as Andy explains, there’s ...
- Riding & Events
- Riding Skills
- 14 November 2008
In this week's issue of MCN, we pit the BMW F650GS against the Kawasaki Versys and Suzuki DL650 V-Strom to see which is best suited to British roads and riders. BMW's new F650GS (which actually uses a 798cc parallel twin engine!) has been a sales success so far for the German manufacturer. It's a cheaper detuned version of the highly rated F800GS, ...
- Motorcycle News
- First rides & tests
- 01 October 2008
