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IF you thought a factory that turned out trim and effective race bikes in the 1970s – winning three 125 and one 250 world championships – could make a decent-looking road bike, you’d be wrong. The...

MANY people thought it couldn’t possibly happen, but the crowd at Brands today was announced as being greater than the 120,900 who trooped like an army in 1999 to watch Carl Fogarty on his way to this...

IF you are not familiar with the term known as Feet Forward motorcycling, allow us to enlarge on it. Take a group of highly intelligent, fiercely independent engineers and inventors and leave them to...

1 Big motor, big bike. The GSX is unlikely to suffer from an inferiority complex 2 Who needs a headlight? They’ll see all that gleaming chrome from miles away3 The twin shocks may be retro, but the...

Europe’s biggest bike dealer network, Carnell-City, is responding to customer complaints by setting up a system that means none of the staff get to go home until all that days calls have been...

PETER GODDARD may have picked up just three points at Brands today, but as he raced a bike only three events into its World Superbike career, British fans were lapping up their first real glimpse –...

Launched at the 1988 Cologne Show, there were feelings from some quarters that it would have been better off launched off the nearest cliff. Remembering the success it enjoyed after introducing the...

What do you think the average cost of a bike insurance policy with Norwich Union is these days? You might be surprised.An MCN investigation has revealed it’s actually close to £250, considerably lower...

Kevin Schwantz, racing Suzukis and more GSX-Rs than you’ll have ever seen gathered in one place before, it’s all on offer at Brands Hatch this Friday.But if you can’t make it in person, you won’t miss...

WHEN a bike, within minutes of its 1978 launch, acquires the tag " Plastic Maggot " , it’s safe to assume the machine has been less than well received by the masses. But the original CX...

THE sneak thieves warned of by police yesterday struck again last night in the Brands Hatch campsites – and they are so good at their work that even the police are forced to admit how expert they...

Here are the world’s first photos of the Honda Hornet 900, the Hornet with a FireBlade engine.Honda is due to officially reveal the Fazer 1000 rival in September.At a glance, the new machine looks...

BMW is launching two new models, the F650CS and the R1150RS, as our scoop pictures show.The F650 CS is the most road-focused of the F650s yet and will be sold alongside the slightly more trail-biased...

NO words are needed to explain the build up throughout today of the fans and atmosphere at Brands Hatch.But to remind you why the event is so special on the British biking calendar, here are some...

ARNIE might well stand out in people’s minds as the most famous and successful bodybuilder ever, but things were almost very different. Over the core of his competitive years, throughout the 1970s and...

POLICE patrolling the Brands Hatch campsites have warned anyone who plans to camp there tonight to be on the look out for so-called "slash and grab" thieves.There have been four or five cases of petty...

HUNDREDS of riders insured through the brokerage firm Devitt DA have been asked to cough up for new insurance policies following the demise of underwriters Independent Insurance Company Limited.While...

WITH an apparently increasing number of residents in rural areas complaining about bikes speeding through their quiet villages, here’s some figures that should shut them up.After the Parish councils...

YAMAHA’S R1 may be struggling to compete with Suzuki’s GSX-R1000 on the road, but there is somewhere it will give the new class leader a sound thrashing – on water.The new Yamaha WaveRunner FX140 uses...

WSB star Neil Hodgson is having a limited edition Ducati 996 made in his honour.Hodgson, a hot tip for success at the Brands Hatch WSB round on July29, rides a 996S in the championship.Unlike either...

THE British motorcycle land speed record has been shattered after Jarrod " Jack " Frost ran his turbo Suzuki Hayabusa through the timing lights at an average of 222.19 mph.The record was...

Iain Duffus shows us the lines on the Isle of Man’s famous TT circuit

We’ve got 10 copies of The History of the Word Superbike Championship video to give away. All you have to do is send us your pictures from Brands Hatch World Superbikes, and the ones voted the best,...

SUPERMARKET giant Sainsbury's may have come up trumps with a temporary marquee-cum-store on-site at Brands Hatch, but that doesn't mean there will be unlimited supplies of drink and food tomorrow – so...

IF your bike ever gets nicked, the first reaction is often to tell as many people as possible, so they can keep an eye out for you.And now the ACU, British bikesport’s governing body, is providing a...

WHILE the excitement of Superpole engulfs the circuit, there are some people who just can't afford to stop and watch the stars in action… like the police making sure thieves don't take advantage of...

WHILE you’d expect a FireBlade to hit 168mph, you’d have to look twice if a bloke on Rollerblades came past at that speed.But that’s exactly what German Dirk Auer managed – with a little help from...

WRONG! Try again shameful loser!

THE sun is shining and the crowds are sweating and with the second qualifying session over, we follow the crowds back to the campsite, for all the world a mass Spanish siesta as every man, woman and...

The new CCM R30 draws more head-turning glances than Jordan in a moist T-shirt.To the clean-slated mind of your average non-biking man on the street, the new CCM appears to be a great-looking...

Where in the world could you expect to ride like this through town and get away with it? Yup, it’s the Isle of Man during the TT.

WRONG! Try again shameful loser!

DONINGTON PARK, the venue for the inaugural World Superbike event back in 1988 and host to a yearly round of the series ever since, has lost its place on the series' calendar to rival track...

WELL DONE! You’ve correctly guessed that wheezy John-san had only enough puff for 28 seconds! You win!Click on the link on the right to see his shameful effort.

WITH their classic design and distinctive looks no one could ever accuse Vespas of being visually boring. But just in case they fail to catch the eye of the beautiful people in the West End, you will...