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Bennetts are giving away 90 FREE Compulsory Basic Training (CBT) courses

Local (to Peterborough) bike insurer specialist Bennetts are giving away 90 FREE Compulsory Basic Training (CBT) courses as part of their new ‘Ride Free’ campaign to support new riders interested in getting their motorcycle licence.The Bennetts Ride Free initiative is part of a proactive move from Bennetts to enable and encourage more people to experience the benefits motorcycles can offer.Bennetts have...

6ft Kawasaki Motorcycles Sign

Man Cave essential of the week

Your typical mancave rarely reaches a saturation point. Even when others might think that there’s no room left to cram another eBay late night purchase in, the curator will always be able to liberate space for the next impulse purchase. Mancave trinkets can come in many shapes and sizes, some are purely nostalgic, yet others are damn right pointless....

Aprilia RS125

Heap of the Week – Aprilia RS125

Our new series ("Heap of the Week") kicks off this week with a manky RS125... The desire for grown men to restore ageing two stroke motorcycles shows no signs of slowing down. There are so many potential owners looking for a suitable donor stroker to restore. Any scruffy and unloved examples that find their way to us are usually offered...

Used Bike Buyers Urged To Haggle Amid BREXIT Uncertainty

Mycarcheck.com’s valuation experts reveal significant trends in the UK used vehicle market and choose a car and bike of the month. Head of valuation servicesat mycarcheck.com, Jon Wheeler, said: “Launched in 2015, the GLC SUV was Mercedes’ long-awaited answer to BMW and Audi’s popular premium sports utility vehicles. With clean soft lines, fantastic attention to detail both inside and out, and...

2000 Ducati Monster M600

Breaking Bad – Ducati Monster 600

What is it? Ducati were in a bad place in the early nineties, they were desperate for a sales success, not too many people would’ve expected it to come in the shape of a parts bin special. The M900 was the first of the Monster family, but it was the M600 that arrived a year later that went on to...

Motorbike Breakers

Marketplace Basket Cases

Trying to value classic bikes is a tricky one, trying to stick a value on what a basket case is worth would be an easier task you might think, but if anything it’s even more confusing to place a price on an assortment of remains from a once complete machine. No two projects are ever the same, that’s the...

Kawasaki ZX6R G

Breaking Bad – Kawasaki ZX6R G/J

A 600cc machine that felt much more than the sum of its parts, the Kawasaki ZX6G was physically big for a middleweight, it had a half decent pillion pad and pumped out over 100bhp, it made a lot of sense then, and is still a viable option almost twenty years since it arrived in 1998. Kawasaki had been building...

1998 Suzuki GSX-R750 SRAD

Breaking Bad – Suzuki GSX-R750 SRAD

For over thirty years Suzuki have been building the GSX-R750 and over those three decades, there’s been a mix of hit and miss models. In 1996 Suzuki broke with tradition and dumped the up and over cradle frame that had been a trademark of the GSX-R750 models for just over 10 years. It wasn’t the only major shake-up Suzuki...