June

Year: 2009

Month: June

Bikes on TV: June 3-9

02 June 2009 by Alison Silcox

KEY TO CHANNELS: DRT – Discovery Real Time SHED – Discovery Shed (used to be DRTE) DSC – Discovery Channel DHD – Discovery Channel HD EXS – Extreme Sports Channel MM – Men and Motors MOT – Motors...

Steve Plater endorses Sunwise Sunglasses

01 June 2009 by Rob Hull

HM Plant’s British Supersport and road racing representative Steve Plater is becoming the face of Sunwise Sunglasses for the racing world. The ChromaFusion Waterloo (rrp £59.99) is the flagship in the...

Try the Arai RX7-GP at the TT

01 June 2009 by Rob Hull

Arai is offering visitors to this year’s Isle of Man TT the chance to test ride the all-new RX-7 GP helmet around the famous mountain course. Compare and buy motorcycle helmets The free ‘test rides’...

New Arai TT replica: do you want it?

01 June 2009

These are the first pictures of TT racer Gary Johnson’s special Arai paintjob that the Lincolnshire man will be donning for his Isle of Man campaign. And Arai has said that if MCN readers like it,...

Rossi Mugello lid to be produced in limited numbers

01 June 2009 by Rob Hull

The helmet design worn by Valentino Rossi at last weekend’s Mugello Grand Prix will go into a limited replica production on the GP Tech lid. AGV UK has confirmed to MCN that 300 of the limited designs...

Video: Sports bike of the year 2009

01 June 2009 by MCN

The Aprilia RSV4 takes on the best of the best to find the UK’s ultimate sports machine for 2009. The KTM RC8R, Yamaha R1, Aprilia RSV4 and Triumph Daytona 675 were taken to the Isle of Man for 2000...

World’s first sexy Goldwing?

01 June 2009 by Guy Procter

Yes, it’s a Honda Goldwing – stripped-back, straight-barred and oozing a purpose and poise Honda never intended for it. Danish film production designer Lars Nielson set about a 1976-model GL1000 to...

Wool covered motorbike

01 June 2009 by Katie Corbin

Inspired by a chapter in Dick Hebdige’s ‘Hiding in the Light’ I bought a motorcycle with the intention to use it in my Fine Art degree show this year. As I was interested in gender I ended up...