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Prison for minimoto-riding dad

12 April 2007 by Rob Hull

An Edinburgh man has been jailed for three months after police caught him riding his 10-year-old son’s minimoto while he was serving a driving disqualification. Gordon Grant, 27, was stopped riding the 39cc bike on the roads last month whilst serving a driving ban that ends in 2013. Grant was jailed for three months and fined £300.

More AMD custom specials

12 April 2007 by Chris Newbigging

Following our story on the winner of the AMD European Custom Championship (see related stories), here are the two runners-up: Second place: Rock ‘N Bike Using a more common 883 Harley engine instead...

Video: 2007 Super-Nakeds group test

12 April 2007 by Angus Farquhar

With such a huge range of big naked bikes on offer this year, we got them all together to find out which one comes out on top. We tested 11 bikes in total, from the Triumph Speed Triple to the Bimota...

Meet the new Bennetts Babes

12 April 2007 by Tom Rayner

These 12 girls are the new Bennetts Babes that will be touring the UK as part of the British Superbike calendar. Over 3,000 girls entered the competition to become one of the glamorous dozen. These...

Gloucestershire has the worst roads in Europe?

11 April 2007 by Richard Draper

Gloucestershire has the worst roads in the country, or possibly Europe – including eastern Europe. It’s a disgrace riddled with potholes and it is extremely dangerous. I am in complete agreement with the gentleman from Cheltenham, which is where I live too.

What's On: April 11 to 17

11 April 2007

Our What’s On listings now show events by their location, making them easier to find. Click the links below to choose the listing for your area and find out what events are on near you this week. If you would like to see your biking event listed please email the details with a sam.bostock@emap.com. WORLD EAST IRELAND MIDLANDS NORTH SCOTLAND SOUTH EAST SOUTH WEST WALES ...

New Harley dealer in Preston

11 April 2007 by Tom Rayner

A new Harley-Davidson dealership is opening in Preston this week. The purpose built dealership will feature bike sales, clothing and accessories, service department and a customer café/restaurant. The...

Leap of faith

11 April 2007 by Ben Purvis

Evel Knievel has found God according to an interview with his local paper, the Montana Standard. The legendary daredevil, who has been fighting pulmonary fibrosis for several years, has been baptised...

Skidmarx screens for Yamaha FZ-1 Fazer

11 April 2007 by Chris Newbigging

Need a bit more protection for your Fazer? Skidmarx has just released two new screens for the FZ-1 Fazer. You’ve got the choice of a flip screen which is claimed to push air over the top of your head...

Cops on minibikes

11 April 2007 by Andy Downes

The combination of police and minibikes usually revolves around teenagers being served with ASBOs – but this is Durham police’s own fleet of fully-liveried minimotos! The force has created the...

AMD European Custom champ

11 April 2007 by Chris Newbigging

This Hungarian machine is powered by a pretty unconventional motor – a combination of a 1941 Harley Knucklehead engine mated with a 3 speed automatic gearbox! The rigid frame/swingarm supports custom...

New MCN: April 11

11 April 2007 by Sarah Carnell

In this week’s MCN biker MP Hazel Blears speaks out against speed limiters on bikes. The lady tipped to be the next deputy Prime Minister says she will not support the proposal unless there is...

Michelle the model

10 April 2007 by model michelle

I am a glamour model and I enjoy posing for my boyfriend and his lovely Truimph Daytona 955i in red. I would love to work with professional people doing motorbike modelling. I am fit, slim, sexy and...

Video: MCN's R1 v GT3 at the Ring

10 April 2007 by Howard Boylan

Not content with racing his long-term-test Yamaha R1, MCN road-tester Michael Neeves took it to the Nurburgring over the Easter weekend. Watch the video as Michael’s brother Ben follows him in a...

Scorpa trials quad

10 April 2007 by Ben Purvis

This weird-looking creation is headed for production according to its designers at Scorpa. Based on a trials bike, the trials quad simply adds another two wheels, and was originally shown last year as...

Honda E4-01 production likely

10 April 2007 by Ben Purvis

Honda’s 2005 E4-01 concept bike is looking increasingly likely to become a production machine with the firm patenting several technical aspects of the design. When the bike was first shown in Tokyo,...

M3 / M25 junction - The worst road I know

10 April 2007 by Laura

The worse road I know for motorbikes is not some suburban or even urban street, but the southbound M3 at its junction with the M25. The ‘day joints’ in the tarmac have been breaking up for seven or eight years now and are somewhere between 3″ and 12″ wide. What makes this so bad is that most traffic is either travelling at high speed and changing lanes to allow the traffic from the M25 to come...

Thanks from Durham Police

10 April 2007 by Bob Brown

We had our third Easter Egg Run on Sunday and the turn out was fantastic. Tesco’s in Durham, who are very pro police/biker allowed us to assemble in their car park. We then travelled to...

What's left of my month old Corona

10 April 2007 by Andrew Mark Lovatt

Here you go guys, this is what’s left of my one month-old 1000K6 Corona after a Taxi pulled out on me at the weekend. I was on the A44 at Broardwas in Worcester. The guy side swiped me as I was...

Video: MV Agusta F4 312 first ride

09 April 2007 by Angus Farquhar

MCN’s Michael Neeves traveled to Monza last week to test the all new MV Agusta F4 312. The bike replaces the F4 1000 and boasts an extra 9bhp which can take it to a top speed fo 312kph – hence the...

No thought for safety

08 April 2007 by beryl j green

I took these photo’s when I was in the car with my son. It was a lovely day on April 8, 2007 at 2.44pm on the A10 near Waterbeach in Cambridge. We could not belive our eyes, this is how people give...

Stunning limited-edition 675

08 April 2007 by Ben Purvis

Jack Lilley Motorcycles are planning to offer an extremely limited-edition run of Triumph Daytona 675s in this JPS-inspired paint scheme. No more than five of the bikes will be offered, at £8999. As...

Hungarian bike firm back after 30 years

08 April 2007 by Ben Purvis

Hungarian bike firm Pannonia is being revived this year with a new V-twin cruiser. It’s just a 234cc motor, making 18.5bhp, but it’s the first bike to carry the Pannonia name since the mid 1970s, when...

Man punched by illegal rider

08 April 2007 by Rob Hull

Police are hunting for an illegal off-road rider who punched a 58 year-old walker who confronted him over his riding. The suspect was riding on a playground in Ellenbrook Lane in Hatfield on March 17 at 4.15pm, and punched the victim who was angered by his reckless riding. The man is described as a blonde-haired man in his 20s, wearing a blue/red helmet and riding an ‘adult sized’ bike. Call 0845...

Road improvements to cause delays

08 April 2007 by Rob Hull

A £2M road improvement scheme put in place to ease traffic problems is set to increase traffic as the works get underway. Work is to begin today to widen the approach to Bardills roundabout on the A52 in Nottinghamshire and also install traffic light. The dual carriageway will be reduced to one lane until the changes are completed in August.

Drink-driver reported by daughter

08 April 2007 by Chris Newbigging

A 70 year-old woman was banned from driving last week after being reported for drink-driving by her own daughter. Kathleen William’s daughter Helen was prompted to report her mother on her mobile after a near-accident while passenger in her car. She was found to be one and a half times over the legal breath alcohol limit. She was banned for one year and fined £140 plus £60 costs.

Kijima Monster S4R

07 April 2007 by Ben Purvis

While most top-end European tuners specialise in making Japanese bikes go faster, in Japan the trend is to take expensive and exotic European machines and make them even more exclusive. Kojima’s...

Saxon Choppers for the UK

07 April 2007 by Ben Purvis

American-made Saxon choppers could become available as complete bikes in the UK in the near future, as the firm’s European distributor is trying to find a British importer. The firm currently offers...

Red sheep entertain drivers

07 April 2007 by Rob Hull

A farmer has decided to “brighten things up” for motorists on the M8 in West Lothian by painting his flock of sheep red. The sheep, which graze in a field next to the road, have caused a stir with...

New gadget stops drink drivers

07 April 2007 by Chris Newbigging

A new device which makes car drivers take a breathalyser test before they can start their car is now available in the UK. Priced at £1,256, the device is linked up to an immobiliser in the glove compartment that only allows the engine to start once the driver has tested under 0.35mg per 100ml of breath. The product is already in use in Sweden and North America where government are drafting...

Burning sensation for Brough owner

06 April 2007 by Rob Hull

£32,000 for a bike is a lot – you’re looking at Desmosidici RR and Honda NR750’s for that sort of money. But a telephone bidder at the end of March decided he wanted to spend his £32K on the charred...

Bike cop dies making overtake

06 April 2007 by Rob Hull

A bike Cop has been deemed to have died by accidental death last week after being thrown from his unmarked police bike when trying to overtake a Land Rover in North Wales. Off-duty police officer Phil Paddock tried to revive 46-year-old DC Richard Gostage at scene of the crash on the A5 at Cerrigydrudion. Gostage had clipped a kerb overtaking the 4×4.

£1.4 million test centre for Scunthorpe

06 April 2007 by Rob Hull

Construction company Bluestones has been awarded a £1.4 million contract to build a new test centre in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire. It will be used for both bikes and cars with test surfaces as well as a testing centre ready for the new motorcycle test that is due to change in 2008.

'Shared Spaces' to save A32 bikers

06 April 2007 by Rob Hull

A ‘Shared Spaces’ programme to reduce motorcycle accidents will start this summer, on a particular favourite route for bikers. The A32 in Hampshire, which runs through the Meon Valley, is set to get totally revamped in the coming months with a lot of road furniture being removed to reduce the number of signals being sent to riders and drivers. Ben Hamilton-Baillie, the man who termed ‘Shared...

Buy a MotoGP minibike replica

06 April 2007 by Rob Hull

Honda’s old Ape 100 might not be the obvious starting point if you’re making a road-legal MotoGP replica – but that’s exactly why Japanese tuner Kijima has opted to do just that. The firm is...

Pay back for cutting up on the A2

05 April 2007

I thought I would put pen to paper with an amusing tale that happened to me recently. I regularly commute to London on my FZ6N travelling up and down the dreaded A2. On this journey there never fails to be some sort of incident and this ride home proved no exception. There had been an accident on the A2 and the outbound route was stationary. Now I am not a fast filterer as I think it’s...