Triumph Tiger 800XC owner Phil Evans today set off to ride his bike from the Jack Lilley showroom in Ashford, Middlesex to the Triumph factory…in Thailand! Evans is raising money for a charity called The Lewy Body Society which aims to help with treatment for this little known disease. Evans said: “I’ll be riding a Triumph Tiger 800XC from London ...
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- 27 May 2011
BMW has today taken the wraps off a new motorcycle and car communication system that aims to prevent cars pulling across the path of oncoming bikes. The system is called 'Turn Left Assistant' and uses a camera and laser scanner mounted on the front of a car to ‘see’ an oncoming bike and prevent a car travelling under 6mph from ...
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- 17 May 2011
Honda Australia has announced a special edition of the CBR1000RR 2011 Repsol Honda Fireblade in Casey Stoner colours and trim – sadly it’s only for the Aussie market but they have made a great video to promote the bike. MCN has more Honda CBRs for sale than anywhere else. Click here Star of the video is Australian Honda MotoGP rider ...
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- 10 May 2011
Ever wondered what it's like to be able to ride a factory motocross bike? We mean really, really ride it rather than wobble around with a look of terror like most people would actually do when faced with the Las Vegas supercross track? Ryan Sipes is a factory rider in the AMA Supercross Lites class which means he races a ...
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- 09 May 2011
BMW is celebrating the two millionth motorcycle to be built at the Berlin plant in Spandau with factory-backed stunt rider Christian Pfeiffer writing 2,000,000 with a burn out on his BMW F800R. The celebration marks 2 million motorcycles being built at the Berlin plant; fittingly the bike was a special edition R1200GS adventure bike. The special anniversary bike was unveiled ...
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- 06 May 2011
Italian firm Husqvarna has unveiled a new 900cc engine based around the BMW F800 engine that will power the first of five new road bikes being launched in the next five years. Husqvarna revealed the bold new road bike plans to MCN just three weeks ago and revealed the firm was already well underway with road bike development thanks to ...
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- 06 May 2011
Ducati has officially confirmed to MCN there will be no Multistrada 1200 S Corse despite the name being registered with the California Air Resources Board. Various websites have been running stories about the new model which has been registered with the body that homologates all vehicles for sale in the state of California which has some of the strictest emissions ...
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- 31 March 2011
The Moto Guzzi V7 is already pretty cool in standard form but London dealer Corsa Italiana has put some work into the bike with these two gorgeous specials. The black bike has a fair bit more work done to the V7 Café Classic which is what the bike started out as. It costs £8999 and gets an all-black paintscheme, three-spoke ...
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- 18 March 2011
Suzuki has slashed prices on many genuine parts in an effort to stop people automatically buying aftermarket parts for models from 1995 to 2011 with reductions of up to 43%.Suzuki calls the process ‘realigning’ and includes many consumable and servicing parts like brake discs, pads, clutch, brake and gear levers along with chains and sprockets too. Price reductions are as ...
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- 15 March 2011
Honda has officially confirmed one fatality at its research and development facility in Tochigi in the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan this morning. Thirty injuries have also been reported at the Honda facility, some 80 miles north of Tokyo. An official statement says: “The earthquake which hit Japan earlier today was one of the largest ever recorded and is ...
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- 11 March 2011
