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What industry analysts are saying…

02 September 2001

Rob Hobson, editor, Cap Green Book, the industry’s pricing ” bible ” : ” This shows how the bike industry is going. ” The car industry has shrunk to core businesses, this is the way the motorcycle...

T-shirts that make you smile

02 September 2001

Got a comedy T-shirt? If it’s got something to do with bikes, share it with the hundreds of thousands of motorcyclenews.com users. We got sent a few we thought you’d find amusing. Check them out and...

Novice trackdays from Carnell-City

02 September 2001

Never mind the rows and rows of bikes sat in the Mallory Park pitlane, my mind is on one thing. Kneesliders. There are 98 other riders milling around, all of them trackday virgins. At least, that’s...

Video: On-board for a flying lap of the Nurburgring

02 September 2001

Widely acknowledged as the hardest road circuit in the world, many people will never find the nerve to tackle the Nurburgring. Just the statistics are frightening enough. 13 miles, 157 corners with a...

Around the ring with an expert

02 September 2001

Gavin Mason has been riding the Ring for 12 years this is how he describes a lap. ” When you leave the pits there are a couple of kinks, but the first real complex is Hatzenbach, which I have been...

What you are saying…

02 September 2001

The most important people in the Kawasaki-Suzuki deal are you the riders who buy the bikes. So to find out what MCN readers make of the tie-up, we visited the Greyhound meet in Folkingham,...

Video: How to tackle the Nurburgring’s six toughest corners

02 September 2001

The Nurburgring is a track you can never learn completely, but this exclusive video guide to the six toughest corners to conquer will help you tackle it with more confidence. And if you aren’t one of...

Suzuki’s TL-powered giant trailie spotted

01 September 2001

Suzuki’s 1000cc V-twin trailie has been spied for the first time, so here’s your first chance for a look. It’s called the DL1000 V-Strom (and no, that isn’t a typing error). It has an all-new alloy...

Special edition bikes to mark 100 years of Triumph

01 September 2001

Triumph is launching a special edition of its T955i Daytona superbike and its Bonnie to mark the firm’s 100th birthday. The 955i comes with a single-sided swingarm (as previous models had but which...

All that glitters... is almost gold

15 September 2000

FEW people in the world will ever get to look at, let alone hear, ride or even own an MV Agusta Series Oro. Only 50 of the magnesium-laced ” gold ” series bikes have ever been built. All of them are...

Britain’s answer to the R1

15 September 2000

THERE have been some great British motorcycles over the years. Triumph’s Bonneville, Norton’s Commando, BSA’s Dandy (well, maybe not). But, even in light of the very latest machines like Triumph’s...

A little bit of what you fancy

08 September 2000

IT was all a bit ironic. Here I was in the middle of Germany, howling along on an exotic FireBlade-engined bike I had travelled halfway across Europe to ride. But along with its Japanese-made engine,...

Beyond reason

08 September 2000

I’M sitting in a jammed-up one-way system, snicking the gearbox into neutral. The idling engine’s heat is starting to make its way through my jeans. Traffic jams are an annoyance on most bikes,...

Tale of the unexpected

01 September 2000

TRACKDAY bikes – R1s, Blades, GSX-Rs, 916s, BMWs. Er, excuse me? Let’s try that one again. Track day bikes – R1s, Blades, GSX-Rs, 916s… BMWs? Surely Munich’s big Boxers are designed to clock up the...

The sum is greater than its parts

01 September 2000

IT was just like gazing at the stars. The more I looked, the more I saw. Except this wasn’t the sky. This was a very special Honda SP-1. And instead of seeing planets, I was gawping at a machine which...

Casting light on the secrets of the black box

01 September 2000

YOU know what the problem with that is… that’s your cerebral oscillator confounding your collectivisor, that is… Modern bikes can be such conundrums of electronic complexity that you won’t be alone if your eyes start glazing over when your mechanic begins explaining why yours won’t start. It’s easy to give up, hand over the key and wander off in the hope that there’s a taxi rank nearby, without...