In this week's MCN, out May 15, we have the ultimate used guide to the best bikes available for under £5000. We also test the new adventure-styled Honda CB500X. Also this week: New high-powered Triumph Bonneville spied and Suzuki's new Burgman 650 tested. In sport: BT Sport's MotoGP deal, Suzuki's new MotoGP bike and all the news and gossip from ...
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- General news
- 14 May 2013
Factory Yamaha rider Jorge Lorenzo will start the first race of 2013 from pole position after seeing off Brit Cal Crutchlow in Q2. Crutchlow again set the fastest lap on his first run in Q2, but after a tyre change Lorenzo set a fastest time of 1:54.714 to beat Crutchlow by 0.202s. Repsol Honda rider Dani Pedrosa set the third ...
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- MotoGP
- 06 April 2013
2012 Moto2 world champion Marc Marquez rode an incredible to race to win his final race in the class before moving up to MotoGP for 2013. Marquez was forced to start from last on the grid after colliding with Simone Corsi on Friday, but the Spaniard had moved up to 11th by the end of the first lap. Aspar rider ...
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- MotoGP
- 11 November 2012
Brit Tom Sykes took his sixth pole position of the season in spectacular fashion at Aragon today. Sykes was 0.708secs faster than second quickest man Max Biaggi. Biaggi's team-mate Eugene Laverty will start tomorrow's races in third ahead of Leon Haslam in fourth. Marco Melandri heads the second row in fourth on the second factory BMW, ahead of Jonathan Rea, Carlos ...
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- World Superbikes
- 30 June 2012
Gresini Honda rider Alvaro Bautista will start tomorrow's British GP from pole position after setting his fastest lap just before rain started to fall. Bautista set his fastest lap of 2'03.303 with 10 minutes of the session remaining, just before the rain flags came out and stopped any of the other riders improving on the Spaniard's time. Factory Yamaha rider Ben ...
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- MotoGP
- 16 June 2012
After last year's European Junior Cup race series used Kawasaki Ninja 250s, Honda has decided to give their own 250cc commuter a track makeover. While the standard Honda CBR250R isn't particularly exciting, it looks a lot better in race trim with a Honda TT Legends inspired paintscheme. Developed for the Japanese CBR250R Cup race series, the mini CBR also gets ...
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- New bikes
- 15 June 2012
Italian Marco Melandri has won race one at Donington Park and taken BMW's first WSB victory. It was a one-two for BMW as Brit Leon Haslam claimed second place ahead of pole sitter Tom Sykes. Haslam took the lead from the start, with a brave move round the outside of Sykes and Melandri. Haslam ran wide at the end of ...
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- World Superbikes
- 13 May 2012
Jorge Lorenzo might not have ridden a MotoGP bike since October 16, but he returned to action in impressive fashion today to top the opening day timesheets at the Sepang circuit in Malaysia. The Spaniard was back on board a MotoGP bike for the first time since his 2011 campaign was ended prematurely when he lost 8mm off the tip ...
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- MotoGP
- 31 January 2012
In this week's issue of MCN, on sale Wednesday December 21, we have the inside story on a new Triumph-engined British sports bike from Enigma. This week also features the first part of the MCN Xmas quiz. If you know your stuff, then you could be in with a chance of winning £450 worth of bike kit! We test the ...
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- 20 December 2011
Relentless by TAS Suzuki rider Josh Brookes has won the second race at Silverstone today to move up to third place in the championship after the race was red-flagged on the final lap due to Chris Walker's Kawasaki dropping oil on the track. It looked as though the race would follow the same script as race one with John Hopkins ...
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- British Superbikes
- 25 September 2011
