It’s tempting to go for the cheapest bike training course you can find. Here are three reasons why that might not be a good idea. 1. The bikes Training school bikes have a hard life. But they should still be reliable, of good quality, and come with a reasonable spares backup in the event of a drop. Many riders who’ve ...
- Riding & Events
- Riding Skills
- 11 July 2011
I'm writing this on a beautiful English summer's day. The birds are twittering, the sun is hot, and for the past couple of hours I've been listening bike after bike burble up the street before hitting the edge of town and howling into the open countryside beyond. I've been welding up a trailer, but the urge to drop everything and ...
- Riding & Events
- Riding Skills
- 24 June 2011
We’ve seen ten races and got to the summer break. So how good is the BBC’s exclusive live coverage of MotoGP? And how is British Eurosport, which at one point looked to have lost its broadcasting rights, fighting back? var PDF_surveyID = '6DC32385BEDCD3C2'; var PDF_openText = 'Click here to complete the survey'; Click here to complete the survey We ...
- Motorcycle Sport
- MotoGP
- 05 August 2009
Since 2005 Triumph’s Sprint 1050 has probably had the best torque curve of any roadbike. A classic sports tourer, it’s squashy, grunty, decent-handling, full of character and (as long as you’re not too leggy) comfy for hours. But what if you haven’t got the five grand plus you still need to get one in your garage? Why not consider... a ...
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- First rides & tests
- 31 July 2009
MCN has witnessed first hand how modern bike thieves operate after joining a police raid in a leafy, well-to-do suburb of a southern English town last week. You see them smashing doors down on telly, but for the real thing they knocked. Two coppers covered the back of the house; five waited at the front, all wearing stab vests or harnesses ...
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- General news
- 09 July 2009
A new Eurorap report has identified ten roads, nearly all of them in the midlands and north of England, as more dangerous to bikes than any others. We want to hear from riders who know these roads. What do you think of them? Why are serious or fatal crashes more likely to happen here? Is it something to do with ...
- Motorcycle News
- General news
- 25 June 2009
