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Romanian president undergoes surgery following bike crash

23 November 2006 by MCN

Romanian Prime Minister Calin Tariceanu is to undergo surgery today (23 November) to repair injuries to his knee from a July bike crash. His bike collided with a car earlier this year, and he is to...

Minibike customers warned away from shop

23 November 2006 by MCN

Potential mini bike buyers and unhappy customers were warned to stay away from mini bike supplier Power Off Road yesterday by Surrey Trading Standards. The shop in Felbridge, Surrey and proprietor...

Hells Angels 69 star dies

23 November 2006 by MCN

Jeremy Slate, the actor who co-wrote and starred in the film “Hell’s Angels ‘69” died on Sunday (19 November, 2006). The 80 year-old had been fighting a cancer of the oesophagus, and died following...

Buy MCN News Editor's Triumph

23 November 2006 by MCN

MCN Head of News Tony Carter has decided to part with our long-term test Triumph Daytona 675 after a happy year on the stylish triple. The 675 has taken Tony to Pamplona to run with the bulls and...

Bike thieves escape

23 November 2006 by MCN

Three men armed with hand guns are being hunted by police after robbing a Northants supermarket and getting away on a bike. Two of the balaclava wearing men took cash from the tills in Tesco Express,...

Lose more than your pint in this hole in the road

23 November 2006 by Steve Howarth

The picture was taken with a camera phone, but don`t worry, if you want a better picture, it’s still there…. London. Wandsworth Road, Nine Elms near Sainsburys – deep enough to stand a pint glass in.

New road started falling apart from the start

23 November 2006 by Graham Ashby

The A289 Wainscott northern bypass is in a dreadful condition to try and take photos would be dangerous. To give you an insight the road was opened about 5 years ago. When open the surface was breaking up, and although part was resurfaced a couple of years ago, the main part as you exit the M2 is terrible. Large areas have pulled out, there are tram lines, and temp tar patches. The local authority...

London Council create a hazard

23 November 2006 by Richard Calderwood

I thought you might like to see these pictures taken at Garratt Lane in Wandsworth. South London. What you can see is a sheet of metal 4ft x 2ft and raised 2 inches above the tarmac. I have no idea...

Council denies gravel risk

23 November 2006 by Craig Greenwell

Yet again i’ve had to ring my local council (South Derbyshire Council) about the state of the roads in my area. I brought my new Fireblade home from the dealers a few weeks ago, and on the last turn...

No parking measures create danger

23 November 2006 by Alan Walden

Shipbourne is a pretty little village near Tonbridge in Kent, and the village Green has a road passing alongside it, and has just had about half a mile of 4″ diameter 2 feet high post fitted BOTH sides of the road, we’re told it’s to stop people parking on the green ( mainly only weekends to use the large local pub / weekend walkers ...

Mind the gap in Perivale

23 November 2006 by Anonymous

The picture doesn’t really do it justice, but this exposed cover is about 2 ft square and you can see the base of it. A bike wheel WILL fit in the gap. It’ss in Bideford Ave in Perivale, W London...

Northampton Council are "speed obsessed"

23 November 2006 by Anonymous

I have the pleasure of living in the Northampton area – a council more obsessed with speed I challenge you to find; where renegade stickers welcoming people to the “Home of the Stealth Tax” can be found on camera signs and cameras, stickers deployed by reasonable, rational people who are completely tired of this obsession. This council is that fixated with the fact that supposedly “speed kills”,...

Local council dismiss safety concerns

23 November 2006 by Ian Brierley

My local paper, the Tameside Advertiser, has carried regarding potholes and in which the local council is stated as considering that they act as “a cheap traffic calming measure”. Villagers in Mottram who are reported as having complained, were told to (as reported) “like it or lump it”. Council Leader, Councillor Roy Oldham, is reported as believing that, “the deep craters are worth keeping as...

Roadside posts create danger in Milton Keynes

23 November 2006 by David Mayhead

Milton Keynes council have installed some square posts in Sherwood Drive, Bletchley. Just looking at them makes me feel sick,they look like killers to me!

Danger roads on the Isle of Arran

23 November 2006 by Steve Garraway

I would propose North Ayrshire Council as having the most inept Road Department in Western Europe, never mind the UK. I have ridden thousands of miles in Europe and the UK, including the Western...

The worst road surface in Carlisle?

23 November 2006 by Andrew Graham

Take a look at this picture, of a section of road I have to negotiate most everyday, with much of the rest as bad if not worse. It is not ‘The Road Of Bones’ but part of Etterby Road. An inner city...

A road to avoid near Bicester

23 November 2006 by Craig Mitchell

The pictures are from a road near Bicester, Oxon. They do not illustrate just how bad this road is!!! I drive it on a regular basis in my car, it is a national speed limit road with a reasonable...

Traffic calming self-destructing

23 November 2006 by Trevor Baker

As if cobbled traffic calming devices weren’t bad enough on a bike, they have now started to fall apart. These two pictures of the same hole is of the A131 between Braintree and Chelmsford. I have...

Watch out on the old A130 Southend Road

23 November 2006 by Darren Rivers

You might want to take careon the old A130 Southend Road at Howe Green, just off the A12 in Essex (nr Chelmsford). Heading towards Southend. Loads of wooden posts. Admittedly it’s only a 30 limit, but I still would not fancy hitting one. I wouldn’t mind betting even in a car there is a good chance one could end up through the windscreen.

Dangerous roadside furniture on the A6

23 November 2006 by Steve

I recently rode down the A6 between Walkden and Westhoughton ( near Bolton ), it runs along the M61, Anyway I was shocked to see some LARGE boulders placed at the side of the road. Does anyone else think this isn’t good?

A review of my 2004 Yamaha R1

23 November 2006 by Steve Comancho

I purchased my 2004 YZF-R1 in May of 2006 after going through a 2005 R1 that I was riding when the motor decided to detonate on the track in February of 2006. So as I frantically found an escape...

My review of my Kawasaki ZRX1200

23 November 2006 by Richard Morris

Kawasaki claim 122PS and 112Nm of torque for the ZRX. In English that’s 120BHP and 82½ ft/lb, almost certainly measured at the crank. Dry weight is 223kg (plus 4kg for the half-faired S version).

Seven European countries in nine days

23 November 2006 by Simon Housecraft

A ride through Europe lasting 9 days and taking in 7 countries (some twice!) with a two stop in Antibes and covering 2700 miles. (England, France, Switzerland, Italy, Luxembourg, Germany, Belgium.) I...

My pilgrimage to Poland

23 November 2006 by Shane Kennedy

I started on my pilgrimage on my BMW K1200S with a 200 mile run from the Midlands to the euro-tunnel. My first time under the drink, which has to be the most efficient and convenient way to cross the...

The Synder family tour Europe

23 November 2006 by Mick Snyder

We decided that this year’s grand tour was going to be to the Tyrol with Mick on his R1200ST, son Jeff on his soon-to-be-delivered F800ST and Brian on the R1150GS. Sons William and Graham would be...

Our trip around the Alps

23 November 2006 by Ian Holland

During those winter months, there’s a lot of talking about “Next year we should go there…” Some ideas were ridiculous, but the idea of a 10 day trip to the Alps, with a stop off at Monaco sounded like...

A tour of Ireland

23 November 2006 by Graham Pugh

My friends David Thrussell,Kevin Howsen and Mathieu Booth, and myself, Graham Pugh, decided to take our two 2005 R1s, a Triumph 955i and a Ducati Monster on a five day trip to Ireland covering 1,442...

A tour of France

23 November 2006 by Graham Bell

My friend Jeff Cheeseman and I had originally planned to head to the French Alps on our Kawasaki ZX9R and Honda CBR1000RR, but on the day before departure huge rain storms were forecast for the days...

A review of my RVF400

23 November 2006 by Eddie Rogers

I thought I’d submit my experiences of owning a Honda RVF400 for the last six months, having read a message on the 400greybike forum. It all started last May, having previously owned many big bore...

My biking confession

23 November 2006 by Malc

My confessions is that I was riding to work one morning, filtering past endless cars and looking out for drivers about to open their doors or throw a Un-turn… The last thing I was expecting was some bloke in a tracksuit to run out from between the cars with his arms stretched out. He hit me so hard I fell to the ground with the bike landing on top of me. The bloke just said “Sorry, mate”, as he...

My biking confession

23 November 2006 by Dave Haines

A ‘mate’ of mine, when I, er, he, was 16 and the proud owner of a Honda MB-5, wanted to see what a burn out was like so thought it best to start the bike on the centre stand, put the bike in 3rd, rev it then push down on the rear end of the bike to get the spinning tyre in contact with the concrete carport ‘road’ surface. My, I mean his, bike subsequently shot 10 feet forward into my, er, his,...

My rideout on May 13, 2006

23 November 2006 by Kamchat

Out on the bikes again today with ‘makendes’ who was visiting from Blackpool. The plan was to ride up to Inveraray then on to Tyndrum and back home down the A84 via Callander. Things didn’t quite go...

It's show time...

23 November 2006 by MCN

It’s just me and my bike…

Crash couple's joy

18 November 2006

A couple who survived a near fatal motorcycle accident six years ago have been awarded six figure compensation packages and becoming parents – all on the same day. Stuart and Nina Smart from Claregate, Wolverhampton, were seriously injured when their motorbike and sidecar collided with a car on the A41, on July 23, 2000. Nina, now 32, broke her pelvis in four places, had a broken collarbone, and...

Your biking confessions

18 November 2006

If you’ve got an an embarrassing moment or a biking secret to share, then we’d like to hear from you. We’re looking for stories of mechanical ineptitude, learner mishaps, or just forgetting to put...

Sent to Coventry

18 November 2006

Sixty thousand pounds worth of minimotos have been seized and crushed by West Midlands Police since the crackdown last summer. Hundreds of local residents have phoned in nuisance reports to police...

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