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The UK’s best-selling scooter, the Honda PCX125 has been given a raft of changes for 2014 aiming to improve rider comfort and further improving fuel economy. The new 2014 model offers revised styling, is even more fuel-efficient and gets a series of additional details to make the scooter more...

The UK’s best-selling scooter, the Honda PCX125 has been given a raft of changes for 2014 aiming to improve rider comfort and further improving fuel economy.The new 2014 model offers revised styling, is even more fuel-efficient and gets a series of additional details to make the scooter more...

The UK’s best-selling scooter, the Honda PCX125 has been given a raft of changes for 2014 aiming to improve rider comfort and further improving fuel economy. The new 2014 model offers revised styling, is even more fuel-efficient and gets a series of additional details to make the scooter more...

It’s safe to say that, so far, sales of electric motorcycles in any class have been almost inconsequentially small. But, on the basis of a short test on a pre-production KTM Freeride E motocross bike, it’s equally clear that this could simply be because the right bikes haven’t been available to...

With the ‘throttle’ wide open through a corner as the rear tyre scrabbles for grip, there is no exhaust roar. The unlikely combination of near-silent running and high performance is almost enough to make you miss the apex. The Agility Motors Saietta R, one of the most advanced electric bikes...

Ducati boss Claudio Domenicali has once again officially dismissed rumours the Italian firm is working on either a scooter or small capacity bikes in the foreseeable future despite new and unfounded internet rumours.Stories of a Ducati scooter have been doing the rounds for years but the firm...

Ducati boss Claudio Domenicali has once again officially dismissed rumours the Italian firm is working on either a scooter or small capacity bikes in the foreseeable future despite new and unfounded internet rumours.Stories of a Ducati scooter have been doing the rounds for years but the firm...

Yamaha has unveiled five concept machines at the Tokyo motorcycle show in Japan; one a café racer version of the XV950, two electric bikes and an electric scooter. None of the four bikes being shown are anywhere near production but the XV950R café racer is about as close as you can get. The...

According to a recent poll from the AA, 85% of drivers say that motorcyclists are 'hard to see'. The stats were presented by the current president of the AA, Edmund King, whilst addressing a motorcycling conference on 'Sharing The Roads' in London this week. Worringly the poll also found that...

MT-07Yamaha has unveiled three new additions to the range at the EICMA show in Milan. Headlining the trio of new models is a smaller capacity MT model, the MT-07. Bearing a vary close resemblance to it’s bigger brother, the MT-09, the 07 significantly uses a parallel twin motor instead of the...

Honda has released images of the new CB1300S Super Bol D'or, an update to the current CB1300S which is available in the UK. The CB1300S Super Bol D'or gets new wheels, LED headlight, new bodywork and a six speed gearbox. The bike will be officially unveiled at the 43rd Tokyo Motor Show on...

Kawasaki has finally decided to jump on the scooter bandwagon with the J300; the Japanese firm’s first ever scooter offered to the European market. The J300 has been styled by a Kawasaki design team but its drive train and chassis elements are courtesy of Taiwanese partner Kymco. In a Kawasaki...

I have a story I thought you might all be interested in, one that should have been told 50 years ago. In 1959, my Dad quit his job as a newspaper reporter, sold his car and bought a '58 Lambretta 150cc scooter. He intended to ride it all the way down to Peru. He didn't know if anyone had ever...

It's been one of the hardest-fought years in motorcycling, with icons being born, and re-born, in equal measure. These are MCN's best of the best... MANUFACTURER OF THE YEARBMW MOTORRADBMW Motorrad is celebrating its 90th anniversary this year, and is riding high with benchmark-setting models...

BMW has shown off the final production version of the company’s first electric two-wheeler and it appears to be exactly the same as the concept bike MCN tested last year. The BMW C evolution scooter is the third of a trio of scooters released by BMW and it joins the conventional petrol-powered...

The grey, British skies seemed determined to quell my excited mood and, as I joined the queue for the channel tunnel, the drizzle misted across my visor and I wasn't entirely sure that a six hour sprint across France was the most sensible way in which to pop my touring cherry. The panicked...

In this week's MCN: Ducati look set to relaunch the classic Scrambler model with an all-new Scrambler using the air-cooled 796cc engine from the Monster 796. PLUS:Remembering Steve Hislop 10 years after his tragic deathLimited edition BMW K1300S riddenSuper-scooter showdown FREE THIS...

Yamaha has unveiled five concept machines at the Tokyo motorcycle show in Japan; one a café racer version of the XV950, two electric bikes and an electric scooter. None of the four bikes being shown are anywhere near production but the XV950R café racer is about as close as you can get. The...

Yamaha has unveiled five concept machines at the Tokyo motorcycle show in Japan; one a café racer version of the XV950, two electric bikes and an electric scooter. None of the four bikes being shown are anywhere near production but the XV950R café racer is about as close as you can get. The...

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