2011

Year: 2011

Month: ALL

Destination dealer: Celebrate summer at Grantham Honda

07 July 2011 by MCN

ADVERTISING PROMOTION Lincolnshire’s leading Honda dealer is gearing up for its latest Summer Open Day this Saturday (July 9). Expect a full day of entertainment including a guest appearance by Shakey...

BMW S1000RR racers ridden

07 July 2011 by Michael Neeves

What happens when you take one of the most powerful, best-handling sportsbikes, loaded with the latest electronic rider aids and turn it into a racer? To find out, BMW let us ride four S1000RRs,...

'Benelli Week' due in September

07 July 2011 by Alice Brightman

Benelli is to host a special week-long festival to celebrate its 100 anniversary in September. ‘Benelli Week’, which is reminiscent of World Ducati Week from its Italian rival, will open on Monday...

Custom Hulk and Captain America bikes

07 July 2011 by Anonymous

Here are two bikes I saw at a show with amazing paint jobs. A lot of work must have been put into these bikes!

My Dad and his Nortons

06 July 2011 by David Holmes

Just seen the story ‘My dad and his Norton’ and thought I’d drop you a line about my dad and his Nortons. Alan Holmes was the first Manxman to win the IOMMGP Junior/Senior ‘Double’ aboard the 350 and...

Triumph of a Wedding

06 July 2011 by croc1253

I have attached a photograph of my daughter on her wedding day on 21st May. She just had time to read the last of the letters before the wedding began sat on my Thunderbird. Doesn’t she look...

Video: Knox hand armour

06 July 2011 by Marc Abbott

This week’s MCN has details of the new Knox Pod glove, featuring the firm’s Boa-lacing, dial closure system. Here’s a flashy presentation of Knox’s ‘hand armour’ gloves to explain how what technology...

Rutter's Ducati readied for Festival of 1000 Bikes

06 July 2011 by MCN

The Vintage Motor Cycle Club’s Festival of 1000 Bikes returns to Mallory Park this weekend from Friday 8 to Saturday 9 July. The event gives enthusiasts the opportunity to ride their own machines in...

Bennetts aim to make dreams come true

06 July 2011 by Alice Brightman

Leading UK bike insurers Bennetts, has re-launched its ‘Biker Dreams’ campaign. The free-to-enter event encourages entrants to send in their dream, biking-themed fantasies online. Judges then select...

Exhausts for modern classic Ducatis

06 July 2011 by Marc Abbott

UK firm Moto Legends Distribution is proud to offer brand new exhausts for older Ducatis, from a time when Italian twins were brittle thoroughbreds that would short if as much as a drop of rain...

Motus durability tests the MST-01 in public on 'American Sport Tour'

06 July 2011 by Guy Procter

American sports-tourer start-up Motus has announced plans to very publicly test/demonstrate the durability of its MST-01 on a 7,000-mile trans-USA tour. Prototypes of the 161bhp V4 sports-tourer will...

'It is a joy to be policed by Aprilia Mana GTs' say happy, productive citizens of Chongqing [REDACTED]

06 July 2011 by Guy Procter

Aprilia has secured a landmark deal with China, allowing it to ethically dispose of a large number of Mana 850 GTs. 30 of the twist-and-go middleweights – a year’s-worth of sales in the UK – have...

MCN Sport: TT 2011 Definitive Review - out now

06 July 2011 by MCN

MCN Sport is on sale now, offering a definitive review of the 2011 Isle of Man TT, with a foreward by John McGuinness and features including 18 pages of spectacular TT pics, the winners in their own...

Send us your bike meet pics!

06 July 2011 by Marc Abbott

Do you want to see your face in MCN? All you need to do is send us a photo of what you get up to at your local bike meet. A high resolution picture, plus a brief description of who’s in the photo and...

Find the Golden Triumph at MCNbikesforsale.com and win £1,000

06 July 2011 by MCN

MCNbikesforsale.com has more Triumphs for sale online than anywhere else in the UK, and with over 17,000 bikes listed from dealers and private sellers there is a great selection of bikes, including...

My bike where it belongs

06 July 2011 by m.stonehouse

Me and my Italian piece of art work, in the living room where it belongs. While the wife’s away the bikers will play!

After the Quake: The Motorcycle as a Life Saver

06 July 2011 by MCN

Taken from Motorcycle Information, a magazine published by the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, a reporter visits Kesennuma City, Japan, a community badly hit by the Earthquake and tsunami...

Bikes on TV: July 6-12

05 July 2011 by Alison Silcox

KEY TO CHANNELS: DRT – Discovery Real Time DSC – Discovery Channel DHD – Discovery Channel HD EXS – Extreme Sports Channel EUR1 (2, HD) – Eurosport 1 (2, HD) MOT – Motors TV CH4 – Channel...

‘Super Ten better than sex’ according to TV’s Adrian Chiles

05 July 2011 by Phil West

Daybreak TV presenter Adrian Chiles has been singing the praises of Yamaha’s XT1200Z Super Tenere after trying one out recently. Find a Yamaha Super Tenere for sale The sometime sports presenter,...

New Honda Vision due next month

05 July 2011 by Alice Brightman

Honda has announced its new Vision 110 scooter will be arriving in dealers next month at a price of £1800. With its fuel-injected 110cc engine, the Vision is set to replace Honda’s existing Lead 110.

New MCN July 6: Ducati 1199 spy shots revealed

05 July 2011 by Liam Marsden

In this week’s issue of MCN, on sale 6 July, we reveal controversial pictures which show the radical new Ducati 1199 Plus, we have all the info and official pictures of the new Husqvarna Nuda 900R,...

Jawa releases new 350 Sport

04 July 2011 by Alice Brightman

This is the new 350 Sport from Jawa. Based on the existing 350 Classic, the Sport gets the same two cylinder, air-cooled, two-stroke engine, displacing 343.5cc and producing 23.6 ftlb. The Sport,...

MCN in 3D: Neil Hodgson riding the Ducati 1198

04 July 2011 by MCN

With the latest Aprilia RSV4 R APRC and Ducati 1198, electronic rider aids are becoming more affordable. Both machines are equipped with eight-stage traction control and a quickshifter, which saves...

Two chances to meet racing legends and help Riders for Health at Mallory this weekend

04 July 2011 by MCN

Riders for Health are offering the unique chance to meet ‘King’ Kenny Roberts and Steve Parrish for a drink and an informal chat on Friday 8 July at the Leicester Marriott Hotel. What’s more, you will...

Are you a bad man?

04 July 2011 by Dan Aspel

Open auditions are being held to fill the role of “Bad Man” in an up-coming British film. The ideal candidate will be a male sportsbike rider aged between 28 and 40. Both street riders and...

Win an Arai lid every day with Carole Nash

04 July 2011 by MCN

Carole Nash is offering free helmet insurance with every modern motorcycle insurance policy taken out through the company in July. The insurance company will also give away a new Arai Axces helmet...

Best of Bikeshop: Modern classics up for grabs this week

01 July 2011 by Phil West

We’ve been browsing MCN bikes for sale every day to bring you some of our top picks from over 10,000 motorcycles for sale. Read more modern classics news and features Here’s just a few...

No hard sell at Bransons

01 July 2011 by MCN

ADVERTISING PROMOTION Bransons Motorcycles opened in Yeovil back in 1979 as a small Honda dealer when C90s, 250 Superdreams and CX500s were the order of the day. Thirty years later the Yeovil outlet...

Goodwood Festival of Speed is Go!!

01 July 2011 by Michael Neeves

It’s the first day of this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed and Michael Neeves, Senior Road Tester is there, here’s his first impression. ‘I’m at the magnificent Goodwood Festival of Speed amongst...

New BMWs to feature raft of safety tech

01 July 2011 by John Westlake

MCN’s senior reporter Andy Downes is in Germany for the launch of a range of as yet undisclosed BMW technology. Though some will inevitably be pie-in-the-sky concept ideas, it’s thought much of the...

Video: Relentless short stories – Isle of Man TT

01 July 2011 by Dan Aspel

Road-riding sponsor Relentless has released the following video as part of its “Short Stories” film competition. A five-and-a-half minute tribute to the Isle of Man, the TT riders and fans, director...

Build your own electric road racer

01 July 2011 by Dan Aspel

Mavizen, the organisers of the electric TT, have dramatically slashed the cost of buying an electric race bike, to less than £8000. There’s just one catch – you’ll have to build it yourself. This is...

Brit team builds super-cool Hog

01 July 2011 by Michael Neeves

Shaw Harley’s dirt-style, Sportster-based “XLST3” is without doubt the coolest motorcycle I’ve ever ridden. Of course, beauty is in the eye of the beholder but if I had a spare £25,000, I’d have...

KTM plans multiple new Duke models

01 July 2011 by Andy Downes

KTM is months from unveiling a new Duke 690 with both 250 AND 350 versions under development as models the Austrian firm hopes can attract new, younger riders to motorcycling. The firm has also...

Spied: BMW R1200GS with Ohlins electronic suspension

01 July 2011 by Andy Downes

MCN’s spies have captured a BMW R1200GS sporting a new Multistrada-style Ohlins electronic suspension system. The development mule was caught near Ohlins headquarters sporting a version of the Swedish...

Electronics for the people: Aprilia RSV4 R v Ducati 1198

01 July 2011 by MCN

With the price of Japanese superbikes edging ever closer to European ‘exotica’, the products of Italian factories such as Aprilia and Ducati are starting to appear better value than ever – especially...