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We’ve mentioned the Keis heated waistcoats in the mag a few times over the years, and everyone who’s got one swears by them for making winter riding much less of a chore than it would be otherwise, but did you know they’re also a literal lifesaver too? Long-time BSH reader and owner of the most…

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I fully appreciate that when you are directly involved in something and sit very much in the middle of it, you can fail to see an outsider’s viewpoint, writes Selina Lavender, MAG chairman. However I am absolutely incensed by some of the viewpoints coming back to me from a number of sources in relation to…

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Some of this information has been covered in one of my previous articles, but there have been new developments you may be unaware of so give it a good coat of ‘looking-at’, writes Rick Hulse. As of 19th January 2013, trikes became part of the Category A (motorcycle) licensing regulations (previously they came within the…

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By Selina Lavender You know that feeling 
when you’re messing about with a cylinder head or gearbox, and you look at your watch and hours have passed without you even noticing? That’s what 2017 feels like to me. Where did the time go? It’s clear that MAG has had great success working on the mechanics…

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This year’s Prescott Bike Fest is set to be the biggest and best yet following the announcement that, for the first time, it has been extended to two days. The popular, family-friendly event will return to the Prescott Speed Hillclimb at Gotherington near Cheltenham (GL52 9RD) on 14-15th April, and will once again boast a…

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The National Motorcycle Museum is running a Friends of the Museum Workshop Training Day on Saturday, 24th February. It will be held in the museum’s Compton Suite, and there will be two sessions presented by experts brought in specially for the day, and the museum’s own restoration team will also be on hand to discuss ‘tricks…

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Once in a while a motorcycle comes to market that’s guaranteed to create huge excitement – John Lennon’s Honda Monkey-Trail, for sale with H&H Classics, is just such a machine. He used the bike as a fun way of getting around his Tittenhurst Park estate in Surrey, where he lived from 1969 to 1971, and…

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Planning a big biking adventure this year? Take Geoff Hill with you for a fascinating look at the world through his observant eyes. Not strictly a biking travel book, although it does have bikes in it, the third of Geoff Hill’s excellent travel books is a kind of a roundup of his many years as…

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It was with a certain amount of regret that we left Encamp in Andorra and headed for the French border, but all sadness at having to leave this beautiful place was soon supplanted by the joy of riding through the stunning scenery 
of the Pyrenees. At one point we passed through a rare set of…

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