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Motorcycle touring:
Motorbike Tours of Europe: France.
Edition One
Paperback containing 10 self-guided tours through France, packaged with a Road Map of France with all 10 routes highlighted plus a pack of 18 A5 route direction cards for tank bags.
Highly recommended. Special launch price.
Web: www.europeanmotorbiketouring.co.uk
One Make or Owners' Club pages:
Owners' Clubs are probably the best place to start if you want to find out all the quirks and foibles of any particular model.
T-Bars rc South Wales
www.t-bars.com
We are a fun loving Non political rally club based in Newport South Wales...
Honda CG125 website
http://hondacg125.awardspace.com/
This website is the only one that supports the Honda CG125 motorbike - and nothing else!
BMW Bundles of Fun(duro)
www.f650.com
Algy's ideal hideout, we hear.
Suzi Two-Cylinders
www.sv650.org
Well, I really wanted a TL1000 but the wife wouldn't let me...
Armstrong 500s
http://members.aol.com/FGYT/ARMSTRONG/armstrong.htm
They turn up a lot in the UMG, but there's not much on the Net about NATO machines...
Kwacker Cruisers:
www.ukdriftergroup.co.uk
for those who like driftin' in the wind
Classic Kwacks?
www.kawasakiw650.co.uk
Kawasaki re-invent the parallel twin
Kawasaki GPX & GPZ Owners Club
www.thekwaksownersclub.co.uk
Wonder if they let ZX10s in as well?
KZ1300 owners and enthusiasts
www.kz1300.com
A new club based in Houston, Texas (I think that's in America) for KZ1300 owners/enthusiasts.
Suzuki Owners Club
www.suzuki-club.co.uk
Suzuki GT200 X5 and GT250 X7
www.suzuki-gt.co.uk
BanditMania
www.banditmania.co.uk
Bolt-on bits for Bandits, trackdays and stuff.
Pan Clan
www.pan-clan.org
Not cooking but touring, on ST1100s...
Diversion Riders
www.ydcn.nl
A Dutch club site but most of it is in English...
Honda Owners Club
www.hoc.org.uk
MotorWorks
www.motorworks.co.uk
BMW and Moto Guzzi spares specialist. Very helpful and experienced if you also need advice; as used by Mr Webster...
Internet BMW Club
www.ibmwr.org
Norton Owners Club
www.noc.co.uk
kettle club
kettle.org/club
Not completely finished, we're told. Good to see they didn't ignore the kettle-comedy opportunity.
Royal Enfield
www.royal-enfield.com
Official Royal Enfield site. Is it coded in India and then debugged in the UK?
Russian About
www.f2motorcycles.co.uk
From Russia with Lug... "Unspolit by progress"
Beemer Bits
www.motobins.co.uk
Bits for Beemers...
General Bikey Pages:
Bikey Books
www.brooklands-books.com
Extremely useful model profiles, tons of info. The ideal antidote to glossy coffee-table Harley nonsense!
MicroFiche
www.motofiches.com
The most useful site on the web. Ever. French Microfiche parts list site. Find the bit you need on here before you phone the hopeless teenager in the parts department.
Sidecars UK
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sidecarsuk
Sidecar mailing list. I misread this first time round and thought it said Sidecars Suk...
BikeLinks
www.dropbears.com/bikelinks
Good site with lots of motorbubble-related links, for those who must go hopelessly surfing...
Ronnie Cramer
http://sepnet.com/cycle/
Who? Ronnie Cramer. This is another site devoted to links, but it's one of the most comprehensive on the web.
Sold Secure
www.SoldSecure.com
The people who test and then approve (or don't approve...) locks, chains, ground anchors, alarms and all that sort of stuff. If it's not on their list, is it worth buying?
Cernunnos MCC
www.cernunnos-mcc.org
Is that spelled (or even spelt?) right? How can we tell?
BritBike.com
www.britbike.com
American site for Brit-Bike (shudder) enthusiasts. Lots of BSA stuff.
Thumper Club
www.thumperclub.org.uk
UK Thumper Club homepages, details on events, articles, adverts, membership,forum etc. Nothing to do with Disney rabbits, though. Shame.
www.eu4ia.co.uk
www.eu4ia.co.uk
A links site for British bikers, with a name that should be sold to a record company. Nice graphics though.
M+P Phase One Endurance
www.PhaseOne.co.uk
Britain's top endurance racing team (who said we weren't single minded?); capable of running in the top three, on a roll at the moment.
Compulsory plugs :
Carole Nash are the UK’s favourite bike insurance specialist, the first choice for bike insurance for UK and Irish bikers.
Classic Bike Shows
www.classicbikeshows.com
The Uk's biggest Classic Shows are found in here. Find out details on shows, look at pics from past events and book tickets or stand space on-line.
Classic Dirt Bike magazine
www.classicdirtbike.co.uk
Published quarterly and printed on high gloss art paper with sumptuous glossy covers, this will the one magazine no off road enthusiast will want to be without.
Classic Dirt Bike magazine: is about the bikes and the personalities of the sport, covering pre-65 machines, classic and twin shocks, trials as well as scrambling/motocross and enduros.
Old Bike Mart
www.oldbikemart.co.uk
Britain's no.1 for classic classifieds, huge readership, 1000's of adverts, eveyrthing you need to rebuild your classic clunker.
The Classic MotorCycle Magazine
www.classicmotorcycle.co.uk
With roots that stretch back to 1903 and a motorcycling archive without equal, The Classic MotorCycle has more to offer the true vintage motorcycle enthusiast than any other publication.
Classic Mechanics Magazine
www.classicmechanics.com
Dedicated to bikes of the 60s, 70s & 80s, Japanese and import bikes. The perfect guide for restoration and rebuilding, and CMM also reviews and roads tests readers machines every month.
Classic Bike Guide
www.classicbikeguide.com
Classic Bike Guide is all shiney and new, whilst still having everything that makes a mag magical! - Or so I been told. CBG has loads of free ads, real-life reviews and neat features for all those Classic owners and riders.
Classic Racer
www.classicracer.com
Classic Racer is the world's leading magazine for historic motorcycle sport coverage.
Motor Cycle Monthly
www.motorcyclemonthly.co.uk
Motor Cycle Monthly is Britain’s first, free national motorcycle newspaper; written by enthusiasts for enthusiasts and will be available on the first Friday of each month at the heart of the motorcycle scene – at all the most popular cafes, clubs, rallies, meets, shows, accessory shops...
Motorcycle Sport & Leisure
www.mslmagazine.co.uk
Motorcycle Sport & Leisure prides itself on featuring a huge range of motorcycling pursuits, reflecting all aspects of biking and the people that are involved. Combining thorough log-distance tests, terrific touring tales, the latest news and in-depth features about cutting edge developments in both both motorcycles and riding kit, MSL has become the only genuinely viable alternative to the knee-down magazine brigade.
Scootering Magazine
www.scootering.com
Vespas, Lambrettas, people with lots of tattoos and much beer swilling. Its the UK's best Scootering Magazine, with features, Music, Events, loadsa Custom scoots and heaps more.
Scooterist Scene Magazine
www.scooteristscene.com
Scooterist Scene is a quarterly magazine dedicated purely to the classic & modern scooterist, with a very personal view on scootering events and features. Scooterist Scene is now owned by Mortons Motorcycle Media, but still managed and edited by Mau Spencer, with editorial supplied by clubs and writers from across Britian.
Twist & Go Magazine
www.twistngo.com
The new look Twist & Go magazine
The new look is fresher, feisty and more suited to the fast moving world of the younger – or younger at heart – rider. The TAG team won’t be losing sight of the fact that scooters remain the coolest – and most practical – form of urban transport, but they’ll be spreading their wings to sample geared mopeds, learner legal motorbikes, quads, minimotos – in fact anything that’s fun and funky on two wheels.
Old Bike shop
www.oldbikeshop.com!
It's our great on-line shop - can buy lots of bikin' bits and bobs, but sadly - no old bikes.
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