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Woman driver ploughs into bike cop

11 March 2003

A police bike rider has been involved in an accident, despite being stationary, in full uniform, and having his lights on. Officer Duke Hettick, 47, was preparing to slow traffic for a funeral...

Barry Sheene tribute

11 March 2003

Barry Sheene. 24-page tribute with MCN, Wednesday, March 12.

Paris-Dakar racers at Hein Gericke off-road night

11 March 2003

British off-road racers Simon Pavey and Nick Plumb will be at an enduro-themed night at the Cardiff branch of Hein Gericke on March 26. The pair competed in the Paris-Dakar rally in 2002 for Team Dome...

WSB stars prepare tribute to Sheene

11 March 2003

The world is already drawing up plans for memorials and tributes to Barry Sheene – who died on Monday. British WSB riders Neil Hodgson, Chris Walker, James Toseland, and James Haydon have decided to...

Watch out for mums on the school run

11 March 2003

It’s worth taking extra care if you notice kids in the back of a car, but for your own safety, according to a study by car glass firm Autoglass Four in five mothers (79%) regularly take their eyes off...

Your memories of Barry Sheene

11 March 2003

Tributes to the late Barry Sheene have been flooding on to our message boards since his death was announced yesterday (March 10). The thing that stands out above all others when reading through them...

Ducati gives Monster 996 engine

11 March 2003

Ducati will unleash a new Monster, with more power than any before. The Monster S4R will be the highest spec bike in the Monster range, with its power coming from the 113bhp 996 motor. Major changes...

Ronnie Smith tribute night: Sheene print for auction

11 March 2003

A fundraising evening in honour of Simon ” Ronnie ” Smith will take place at Club Amadeus, Northallerton, on Tuesday March 18. Included in the fundraising auction is a signed Barry Sheene...

First ride on the Aprilia Tuono Racing

11 March 2003

Aprilia has launched a tweaked ‘Racing’ version of its RSV1000 Tuono, with a factory race kit included with the bike. In its road legal version, the Tuono Racing makes 130bhp at the crank, utilising...

Remembering Sheene

11 March 2003

Barry Sheene’s death is inspiring acts of remembrance around the world. There will be a one minute silence at the MotoGP IRTA test in Catalunya on Sunday March 11. Many Australian fans have taken to...

Sheene loses battle with cancer

04 March 2003

Barry Sheene died peacefully in hospital yesterday, March 10, after an eight-month battle against cancer of the oesophagus and upper stomach. The 52-year-old 1976 and 1977 world 500 champion leaves...

Ronnie remembered

04 March 2003

North Yorkshire Road Racing Supporters Club is holding a charity night on March 18 in memory of racer and road testerRonnie Smith, who died in January this year. The main focus of the evening will be...

Tributes roll in for Barry Sheene

04 March 2003

Friends and colleagues of Barry Sheene have been quick to offer their condolences to his family and to praise the man and the life he led. Sheene’s greatest rival, Kenny Roberts was told of Sheene’s...

First test on production Benelli Tornado

04 March 2003

MCN has tested the bike that’s almost too beautiful to ride. The Benelli Tornado Novecento costs £11,500, rivals the Ducati 999, and we’ve ridden it in a test so exclusive, the bike’s designer was...

Paris Tuning Show specials

04 March 2003

Some of the best specials in Europe were brought together for the Paris Tuning Show, the biggest of it’s kind in Europe. MCN this week (March 5) has six-pages dedicated to the show, including amazing...

Tell us your servicing stories

04 March 2003

If you’ve just had a dealer service your bike, MCN would like to hear about it. Whether you were impressed with the quick service, or found that every garage was booked for weeks, we’d like you to...

Daytona Bike Week off to damp start

04 March 2003

The weather has turned sour over Daytona Beach for the start of the annual Daytona Bike Week in the ” sunshine state ” of Florida. MCN has sent a team of reporters to the event, and throughout the...

Daytona defies the rain

04 March 2003

Despite the continuing threat of rain Daytona Bike week has moved into top gear. Well first gear actually because that’s as fast as you can go in most of the town with 600,000 bikers clogging up the...

Speed camera loophole discovered

04 March 2003

A Welsh motorist had his speeding charges dismissed due to a legal loophole which could lead to many more cases being dropped. Phillip Dennis, 34, of Whitford, North Wales, had his case dropped due to...

Bikes in bus lanes starts in Swindon

04 March 2003

Swindon Borough Council has become the latest authority to start allowing Motorcycles to use bus lanes. The council has started the scheme as a part of twelve-month trial on selected routes and...

Hodgson reveals amazing injury secret

04 March 2003

Neil Hodgson had more than 30 painkilling injections to be able to race at the opening World Superbike round at Valencia on Sunday (March 2). The injury was even kept secret from his Ducati team, but...

See the MCN Babe Squad and much more at the Scottish Show

04 March 2003

The members of the 2003 MCN Babe Squad are just some of the attractions at Scotland’s biggest ever bike show. The 2003 Scottish Motorcycle Show runs from tomorrow March 8, until Sunday March 9.

Barry Sheene – An amazing life

04 March 2003

Barry Sheene’s death has touched the world beyond motorcycling, because he was not just a motorcyclist. He was an icon, a legend; the grinning Cockney who came good against all the odds. Even today,...

Rockster hits the shops

04 March 2003

BMW has announced that it’s new Boxer engined Rockster will be available in dealers from March 15, priced at £7295 on the road. The company first showed the bike as a concept at the Intermot show in...

C1 rider wins court case

01 March 2003

BMW C1 rider Peter Parker has won the right to ride without wearing a lid in a ground-breaking court case. Parker, 44, from Bedford, was found not guilty of three charges of riding a motorcycle...

Join MCN’s growing team

01 March 2003

MCN is getting bigger from March 19. To help us deliver an even better paper every week, we need four extra full-time editorial staff. We’re looking for two Staff Writers, one Sub-Editor and one...

The Scottish Motorcycle Show, March 8-9

01 March 2003

This year will see the biggest Scottish Motorcycle Show yet at Edinburgh’s Royal Highland Centre. The show, in association with MCN, features the major 2003 bikes, the Carol Nash Classics Pavillion...

Meet Foggy at Tesco

01 March 2003

World Superbike legend and team boss Carl Fogarty will be at Tesco’s Horwich store in Lancashire on March 7. But he’s not just popping in for a tin of beans and some toilet roll. He’ll be signing...

Hasselhoff off

25 February 2003

Baywatch star David Hasselfhoff has been forced to cancel interviews and appearances to promote a forthcoming Baywatch film due to a bike smash on his Harley. Despite that, Baywatch:Hawaiian Wedding...

First test on sharper new GSX-R1000

25 February 2003

MCN has been in Australia for an exclusive world first test of the 2003 GSX-R1000. And we’ve discovered the new frame, suspension tweaks, lighter weight and more power add up to a much improved...

Yamaha reveals twin-shock MotoGP bike

25 February 2003

In MCN this week you can see Yamaha’s experimental M1 MotoGP bike with twin-shock rear-suspension, breaking 20 years of single-shock racing tradition. Plus we have the first ride of the 2003 GSX-R,...

Get your riding questions answered

25 February 2003

Have you ever watched a GP god, a stunt rider, or a police motorcyclist at work and wondered “How do they do that?” Well, we have assembled a panel of riding experts and legends including Kevin...

BMW donates bikes to Pentagon

25 February 2003

BMW has donated six ex-Chips bikes to help create the first Pentagon police motorcycle unit. Six BMW R1100 RT-P police motorcycles will be used for traffic enforcement in the Pentagon reservation. The...

.International Ride To Work day

25 February 2003

This year’s Ride To Work day will take place on Wednesday, July 16, to coincide with the same event in the U.S. The annual event is organised by the Motor Cycle Industry Association (MCI) to promote...

Threat of congestion charge grows for bikes

18 February 2003

Road safety campaigners are calling on Ken Livinstone to add bikes to London’s congestion charging They fear that the fact that bikes go free will add to the number of new and inexperienced riders on...

Win a Rizla Suzuki GSX-R1000 with Fantasy Road Race

18 February 2003

MCN’s Fantasy Road Racing competition has prizes worth £15500 up for grabs, and a top prize of a Rizla replica Suzuki worth around £12000. If you’ve ever claimed to know more about racing than your...

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