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A bit of RG bargy

16 April 2007 by Paul Snowsill

A bit of RG bargy

It was 1986 and, having just got married and I bought a house, I grudgingly agreed to tuck my trusty 8 year old XS750 away in the garage (just for a year or two to concentrate on home improvements and...

Firm bans thousands of staff from riding bikes

16 April 2007 by Steve Farrell

Firm bans thousands of staff from riding bikes

Thousands of employees of a multinational company have been banned from riding motorcycles under threat of disciplinary action, it emerged today. Johnson Controls Ltd has banned motorcycles as a form...

Video: Bimota Tesi 3D in the factory

16 April 2007 by Ian Jubb

Video: Bimota Tesi 3D in the factory

IN a recent visit to the Bimota factory we managed to get an excluasinve ride on the development version of the New Tesi 3D and sneak a peak inside their workshop. Check out the video to see the...

Bikers banned from Speed Ferries

16 April 2007 by Tom Rayner

Bikers have been told by Speed Ferries, operating from Dover to Boulogne, they can no longer travel with their bikes. Speed Ferries operates a high-speed service across the Channel but claims it is no longer able to accommodate motorcyclists. In a cancellation letter sent to customers by Speed Ferries it blames high turnaround time due to loading and discharging bikes and high claims for...

Buy a bike with help from the BBC

16 April 2007 by Dan Thornton

Buy a bike with help from the BBC

If you’re in the market to buy a new bike or scooter, the BBC is looking to help you. The television channel is looking for motorcyclists to appear on the daytime consumer affairs programme “Don’t Get...

Is it my turn now dad?

15 April 2007 by Mac Drew

Is it my turn now dad?

I’m hoping that one day, my three-month-old son, Bailey, will share my passion for biking. I can’t wait to buy him his first lid and leathers!

Honda hareem

13 April 2007 by blade101gs

Honda hareem

How do you like my Honda harreem?

Biking in Spain

13 April 2007 by ducatis4rman

Biking in Spain

Here are a few shots of where we ride and quad in Spain. All these bends to ride round! Poor old us!

AMD Euro Custom Championships: P-Tang bike

13 April 2007 by Chris Newbgging

AMD Euro Custom Championships: P-Tang bike

The overall top-rated bikes from the 2007 AMD European Championship might be grabbing all the attention, but in the smaller classes there’s still some hot metal to ogle. The P-Tang from Young Choppers...

Video: Backstage with the Bennetts Babes

13 April 2007 by Tom Rayner

Video: Backstage with the Bennetts Babes

MCN can exclusively take you backstage with this year’s stunning Bennetts Babes. The footage was taken at the first official photo shoot as the twelve girls got to know each other. You’ll be seeing a...

Hours left to save bikes from road pricing

13 April 2007 by Steve Farrell

Hours left to save bikes from road pricing

Today is your last chance to sign MCN’s petition against road pricing before it is given to Tony Blair. As this was written, the list of names had reached 4,411 and was still growing by the minute,...

Worst roads

13 April 2007 by sidestand01

I think that the worst roads are in Swansea, South Wales. The potholes, surface corrosion, and general state of the roads is a disgrace. All the council have to say is that due to a high number of damage and injury claims they haven’t got enough money to repair all the roads. So what is our road tax for? I thought it was to pay for the upkeep of the roads so there won’t be any claims!

Nightmare Gloucestershire roads

12 April 2007 by RockmeisterG

I agree with Richard whole heartedly. Having been out for the first long run of the year today, I can quite honestly say that the county’s roads are absouloutly atrocious. This is unless you happen to go through the Forest of Dean where there seems to have been a major resurfacing scheme going on along the A 4136 to Monmouth. But get into Wales and you might as well be in a different continent.

Win a CBR6 with Spring Spectacular

12 April 2007 by Rob Hull

Honda is running a special promotion campaign throughout April where you can win loads of great prizes, including an HM Plant replica CBR600RR7. All you have to do is go to your local dealer, fill in the form and drop it in the Spring Spectacular box. And anyone who test rides a Honda over 125cc gets entered into a free prize drawer to win a CBR600, Hornet or a VT750DC Shadow Sprint.

McGregor jacket raises £2600

12 April 2007 by Rob Hull

A jacket worn by Ewan McGregor on his documented Long Way Round journey was sold at auction last month for £2600. The auction was held by Edinburgh University to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support and the Students Supporting Street Kids charity.

MX rider killed by barbed wire

12 April 2007 by Rob Hull

An Italian farmer is under investigation for manslaughter after a motocross rider was killed by a piece of barbed wire stretched across a country track. Marco Badiali, 48, was out riding with seven friends in Pavullo in the Appenines to celebrate his birthday when he was virtually decapitated by the wire that was stretched five feet high across the path. Reports said there was a history of...

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

More AMD custom specials

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

Video: 2007 Super-Nakeds group test

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

Meet the new Bennetts Babes

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

New Harley dealer in Preston

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

Leap of faith

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

Skidmarx screens for Yamaha FZ-1 Fazer

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

Cops on minibikes

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

AMD European Custom champ

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

New MCN: April 11

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

Michelle the model

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

Video: MCN's R1 v GT3 at the Ring

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

Scorpa trials quad

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 E4-01 production likely

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

Thanks from Durham Police

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

What's left of my month old Corona

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

Video: MV Agusta F4 312 first ride

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...