Bike News (October 2016)

‘I’m riding more than ever’   How did you first get into bikes? I’ve been riding since I was 15. I started off riding trials – my father was a trials rider and so when I was at a reasonable...

With channel 4 airing Guy Martin’s land speed record attempt tomorrow, we thought we’d catch up with some of the boffins that designed the Triumph Infor Rocket Streamliner and helped Guy get to grips...

Harley-Davidson’s Battle of the Kings is back for its third year as the firm goes in search of a new 2017 Custom King. The competition, hailed as ‘the largest bike customisation competition’ in the...

The AMD World Championship of Custom Bike Building has been running since 2004 and brings together the very best custom bikes on the planet to crown one ultimate winner. And don’t think this is a...

Opportunities like this don’t come along very often. MCN has teamed up with Triumph UK to offer 50 readers the chance to win a pair of tickets each to an exclusive world launch party on October...

Intermot 2016 saw an array of some bitchin' custom bikes.  Forget about the new 939 SuperSport S and who really cares about Honda's Fireblade SP?* TOP STORIES “If you look up cool in the...

It might not have been the most successful 500cc Grand Prix bike, but the Suzuki RGV500 captured the hearts and minds of race fans in the late ’80s and early ’90s. And it was all because of one man:...

As well as revealing four new or updated models in the flesh at Intermot, Kawasaki also revealed images of two new models which will be revealed at the EICMA show in Milan next month - the Z900 and...

In this week’s edition of MCN, available in newsagents, on iPad and Android from October 5: 2017 stunners revealed 22 pages of new metal, starring two all-new Fireblade SPs, new BMW R nineT Racer and...

Jenny Tinmouth – Honda Racing BSB rider, fastest female TT lap record holder with 119.945mph – talks to us about how to make it in a man's world. Jenny says: "The world of racing and motorbikes...