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TALK ABOUT SOME awkward bloody timing! News of Suzuki’s plan to pull out of MotoGP at the end of the 2022 season has come just as AMCN goes to print… and as I write this column, the announcement at the end of last week’s Jerez test of the factory’s w

RUMOURS ARE RIFE that Yamaha is developing a Ténéré 900 based around the 890cc triple from the MT-09, XSR900 and Tracer 9. This would create an instant rival to Honda’s Africa Twin and other similar machines, plus the incoming Ducati Desert X and MV

THE MOTOGP WORLD championship has been rocked by the news that Suzuki is planning to withdraw from the series at the end of this season. As AMCN went to press, the Japanese factory hadn’t made an official announcement but Dorna, blindsided by the mov

FIRST REVEALED IN 2019 and shelved during 2020, Harley-Davidson has filed a new trademark application for the Bronx name, to be used on ‘motorcycles and structural parts thereof’. It’s particularly telling because in the US, where the trademark appli

NOW BMW HAS got its R 18 cruiser family bedded down, it plans to develop a smaller version to challenge the sub-1200cc market segment. BMW has filed worldwide trademark applications for a new model called the ‘R 12’. It will take on strong-selling ri

NORTON’S NEW OWNER, Indian conglomerate TVS Motors, has announced a massive cash injection of $A180 million into the British brand it bought two years ago. It’s the biggest injection of finance into Norton in its entire history and forms part of a co

Aussie battler Brayden Elliott breaks through to finish second to Billy ‘Skippy’ McConnell in the recent round of BSB Superstock 1000. Harley-Davidson sure knows how to throw a party, and is planning a monster for its 120th anniversary in 2023. A vic

CHRISTCHURCH’S DALE WYLIE captured people’s attention. Then teenaged enthusiast Glenn Ducey recalled the summer of 1969-70 battles with international Ron Grant taking on top locals Trevor Discombe and Geoff Perry. “Into the mix was thrown Wylie, aboa

Access AMCN, PO Box 6, Bittern, Vic, 3918 access@amcn.com.au I am so pleased to see Aleix Espargaro finally coming good on the Aprilia. Three podiums from three front-row starts after lining up in the previous 200 premier-class GPs and finishing more

Just a decade ago, if you wanted something fast and focused but didn’t fancy the responsibility of a 1000cc superbike for the road, you had a plethora of exciting bikes to choose from: multiple 600cc machines, a 675 from Triumph and MV, a 636 from Ka

Retail price $10,490 ride away Distance covered 230km Fuel Economy 5.5L/100km (MOTY) Servicing First: 1000km Minor: 10,000km Major: 20,000km Options added None … yet! We should be further along our journey with the long-term CFMoto 700 CL-X Sport sin

If you’re in the market for a big-bore supernaked, you’re spoilt for choice. You have twins, triples and fours from Japanese and European manufacturers, and no one makes a bad one. It was BMW who made all of its rivals sit up and take notice eight ye

Sunday 3 April marked a significant milestone in the history of Grand Prix racing, with Aleix Espargaró aboard the RS-GP V4 registering Aprilia’s very first race victory in the MotoGP category in Argentina, after 20 years of intermittent trying after

Determination is certainly one of Joel Kelso’s stronger suits. The diminutive rider that stepped up to the Moto3 World Championship on a permanent basis this year may give off the impression of being laidback and easygoing. But speaking to the 18-yea

Few racers have had as many nicknames as Omobono Tenni. He was variously known by his fans with a Rossi-like mania as the red meteor, black devil, king of curves, the fire-winged centaur and the master from Treviso. And those were just a few… Tenni’s

Cassons Australia $599.95 (02) 8882 1900 cassonsmedia.com From Bell’s Heritage Collection comes the Command helmet, which features a gloss vintage white, oxblood (their word, not ours) and blue colour scheme, complemented by a maroon-coloured interna

AT A GLANCE, the Spanish Grand Prix marked the return of normality. After two years of closed grandstands, the Circuit of Jerez Angel Nieto was bolstered by 56,000 fans making an almighty racket from sunrise. And after five races which featured littl

YAMAHA IS INCREASINGLY confident of securing Fabio Quartararo’s signature for 2023 and beyond after months of speculation surrounding the reigning world champion’s future. The Frenchman confirmed his manager Eric Mahe is in talks with the factory to

EIGHT-TIME WORLD champ Marc Marquez now seeks a tow in order to chase a fast lap time as Honda continues to push to find solutions for its 2022 RC213V. The Portuguese GP was a sobering weekend, in which the eight-times champion’s post-race mood was b

A BRAND NEW track on the Cox Peninsula, about an hour outside of Darwin, played host to the 51st running of Kamfari last month. At 10am the riders took off on what would be an epic four-hour enduro through spear grass, mud flats and paperbark forests

BRADLEY RAY HAS broken through on his Rich Energy OMG Racing Yamaha for his first British Superbike Championship victories since 2019, taking two decisive wins and a third at Oulton Park to lead the title race after round two. Ray was the class of th

CAMERON STRONACH won the first of three races and set a new lap record on a seven-year-old Yamaha YZF-R1 that was virtually destroyed a year ago. Stronach switched to a Yamaha after racing Ducatis for the past few seasons and the jury was out on how

We’re standing in the impressive Boost Mobile Ducati transporter from which Craig McMartin supports three-time ASBK champ Wayne Maxwell at each round. The conversion was completed by Barry Horner, one of the legendary brothers responsible for the Irv

FOLLOWING HIS DEBUT at Kembla Grange Speedway as a 17-year-old, Phil Herne happily agreed to an offer to race in Britain, where he quickly steered the Second Division Birmingham Brummies to the 1974 Championship and victory in the Knock-Out Cup. Back

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