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WATSONIAN HAS PRODUCED a new platform chassis sidecar with multiple uses. The chassis, which costs £1495, can be adapted for a wide range of uses, from carrying surfboards to lugging around entire motorcycles. The sidecars, have a 200kg payload and go-anywhere potential. So far Watsonian has sold one to become an ice cream sales platform,…

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ELEMENTS of the scooter/motorcycle rivalry of the mid-60s will be showcased at The Carole Nash Classic Bike Guide Winter Classic show. The motorcycling event, now in its seventh year, takes place at Newark Showground on January 6-7 and has been expanded by two halls for 2018. Among the many attractions on offer will be a…

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IT Is the industry’s showcase of the latest machines, and this year’s Motorcycle Live event at the NEC was full of classic-styled bikes. Kawasaki went big on the Z900RS and Café, with many onlookers enthusiastic about trying it. There were a couple of negative comments about the lack of 4-into-4 exhaust systems and, shock horror,…

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TWO NEW TWINS from Royal Enfield have broken cover as the company says it wants to promote ‘pure motorcycling’. A brand new 648cc ohc twin engine developed in India and the UK will power two new machines; a café racer Continental GT and an Interceptor INT roadster. Royal Enfield’s president, Rudratej Singh, and CEO, Siddartha…

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LEGENDARY ROAD RACER Don Padgett passed away on Monday, November 13. Don, along with his brother Peter, started the famous Padgetts of Batley dealership in the late 1950s which has expanded into what is now one of the biggest motorcycle dealers in the country and the UKs longest standing dealer in Honda, Suzuki and Yamahas.…

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THEY PRODUCED A 16-year-old’s dream in the 1970s – the 60mph GT50 moped. They also made the 50cc and 125cc Chopper and one of the best small trail bikes of the era, the Caballero. Now, Italian manufacturer Fantic is bringing back that name for a brand-new scrambler-themed machine with a look that is both up-to-date…

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The risks of leaving modern ethanol-rich petrol sitting in tanks and the damage it can do is becoming more commonly understood, especially in the winter when motorcycles see less use on the roads. Spares supplier Wemoto is now selling ethanol treatment Star Tron in quantities from 30ml to a litre – enough to treat 720…

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KAWASAKI HAS FINALLY unveiled the long-awaited retro-themed Z900RS, based on the look of the classic Z1 of 1972. Tagged a ‘Retro Sport’ thanks to its RS moniker, the new Z900RS has been painstakingly created by Kawasaki’s styling department and factory engineers as an all-new machine sharing some lineage with the four-cylinder water-cooled Z900. The Z900RS…

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THE GOVERNMENT HAS clarified details of what will happen when the new 40-year MoT Exemption is introduced in May 2018. Details of what the words ‘substantially modified’ mean, which is the term used to classify whether a vehicle can be considered exempt, have been firmed up. There has also been a change in the date…

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THE ISLE OF MAN TT is the focus at one of Europe’s biggest classic vehicle shows in February. The organisers of the Bremen Classic Motorshow are exhibiting a group of 20 British motorcycles never shown together before, from Friday, February 2 to Sunday, February 4, at the Bremen Fair in Germany. The special exhibition entitled…

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