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IT’S AMAZING how time flies when you’re having fun. It has already been a tad over two years since I made my return to Horror HQ after a 10-year break, and in that time the team has pumped out more than 50 issues of AMCN – including our mammoth 212-p

THE TOP end of the cruiser market, one of the most popular segments in Australia, has just been rocked by BMW. Its new R 18 Roctane combines luggage with a longer, lower look to take on bikes like Harley’s Road King and Indian’s Springfield Dark Hors

There’s more for 2024. The decade-old R nineT is also being given a full model update to become the R 12 nineT and celebrate the 100th anniversary of BMW Motorrad. Full specifications won't be announced until later this year.

LAST ISSUE we revealed a raft of four-cylinder models coming out of China. Another brand at the forefront of the Chinese international expansion is Kove, which is already on sale in Europe and about to hit the US. It’s jumped in at the deep end, with

Not only does his VR46 team claim the lead in MotoGP at Le Mans, Valentino secures his first international four-wheel podium at the UK round of the GT World Challenge Sprint Cup Europe. The Murray Valley Training Company opened its 1.6km, nine-corner

A MONASH UNIVERSITY team is developing a blood test that measures whether a driver or motorcycle rider who has caused an accident was impaired by a lack of sleep. It says the test could be available within two years, making it easier to legislate aga

Don’t Forget #amcn_mag Ellen Bedford hits the nail on the head about the 1970s Aussie road racing talent. Want to see your pride and joy featured in AMCN? The only thing we love more than writing about bikes is looking at your bikes. Tag your social

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Fox Sports, Kayo & Video Pass Check website and local guides At the moment it’s a Bautista show, but Rea, Razgatlioglu et al all want to bring the Spaniard back a peg at Misano – and this could be the round where Gardner really starts to shine. Fox S

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Today’s world is full of superlatives, but occasionally something comes along which truly deserves being extolled as the biggest and best. But the 940-page large format (28 x 36cm) Ultimate Collector Motorcycles masterwork is truly worthy. This massi

IT WAS GIBBO’S idea. Most of them are now the UNEMCC is ancient enough to be classified by the National Trust. You’d have to ask Lance about that too, because like ET with a finger in the air, he’s the one who communicates with the government. “Let’s

DORNA’S AIM at making the racing closer has been thrillingly successful. But making it so close can make fools out of heroes. Here are some examples: Honda, Yamaha, Fabio Quartararo and the panel of stewards. Honda is paying the price of having one s

THE SPRINT WAS calmer by comparison to the main race. Mainly as Martin rose from sixth to second by the race’s third turn, with only Bagnaia up ahead. And the overtaking woes the Spaniard spoke of at Jerez were not evident here as he confidently pass

THE WEEKEND HAD been going so well until the Sprint. No one was faster than Miller on Friday at one of his strongest tracks. A victory push was very much expected from fourth on the grid. But choosing Michelin’s medium front compound would be his und

PERHAPS THIS YEAR’S Moto2 title fight won’t be as straightforward as expected. Pedro Acosta (Ajo Kalex) showed he is fallible after all by crashing out in spectacular fashion when chasing down early leader Tony Arbolino (Marc VDS Kalex) in a shortene

DEPUTISING FOR THE injured Darryn Binder in the IntactGP team for the second race running, Agius arrived in France on a high thanks to a double victory at Estoril in the opening European Moto2 Championship round. The 17-year-old got a great getaway f

FEW GAVE DANI Holgado (Tech3 KTM) a fighting chance of victory after arm pump plagued his past two outings. Despite holding off surgery, the Spaniard held his nerve in the face of intense pressure asserted by Ayumu Sasaki (IntactGP Husqvarna) to win

KELSO WASN’T EXACTLY delighted with 11th place at Le Mans. But the fact it came in his second race back from a nasty left ankle injury, and involved a strong fightback, meant he left France for the three-week break “content”. The Australian qualified

THE CRASHES involving high-profile road racers Lee Johnston, Michael Sweeney and Nathan Harrison overshadowed the meeting. Johnston was airlifted to Belfast Hospital after a blood transfusion with many fearing the worst. His injuries were vast, with

JOSH BROOKES and Peter Hickman’s Superstock M 1000 RRs were pulled from the grid just seconds before Thursday’s Superstock race due the carbon-fibre wheels which come fitted as standard. The debacle started because the MCUI rules state that carbon wh

AUSSIE ESTENSON Yamaha recruit Tom Drane has broken through for his maiden American Flat Track Singles win at the Sacramento Mile, sealing victory by a slim 0.005sec from the American Honda rider Trent Low. Chase Saathoff was third on the second Amer