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Lazy touring

The French travel guide website France-Voyage.com has launched a new, free service that enables you to create a customised holiday itinerary to suit your interests and print it out as your own personal mini-guidebook.

Bikers pitch up

If you like to get away for the weekend, and struggle to find bike-friendly campsites, a new addition to www.pitchup.com may be of interest. The campsite has started listing motorcycle friendly sites and accommodation.

Barry Sheene Memorial Dinner

Spend a night with Barry’s family and friends and help raise much needed funds for CLIC Sargent – caring for children with cancer, Barry’s chosen charity.

Battery charger comp

The following five readers have won a fantastic Oxford Products Oximiser 600 battery charger by simply visiting www.usedbikeguide.com

Mortons archive

UBG publisher, Mortons own the rights to literally millions of bike and scooter images. Housed in our purpose built facility in Horncastle the archives have until recently been a closely guarded secret. With classic images spanning the history of motorcycling from inception to modern times there are tens of thousands of previously published and unseen images to choose from.

Trainspotting at Mortons

Mortons Media Group has purchased Rail Express magazine from Foursight Publications Ltd.

HJC pump up lid

HJC has launched the nearest thing to a commercially viable made-to-measure helmet.

RideSafe BackSafe IAM assessments

RideSafe BackSafe has teamed up with the Institute of Advanced Motoring to provide a series of inexpensive but invaluable Rider Assessment Days for motorcyclists in the North West.

Get On during NMW

This year’s National Motorcycle Week runs from 18-24 July so be sure to ‘Get On your bikes’ that’s the message from Steve Kenward MCI’s CEO who said, “National Motorcycle Week is an important week in the motorcycling calendar because it is a fantastic opportunity for the whole motorcycling community to get active and to talk positively to their colleagues, friends and family about two-wheels.

Free security advice

Following research that over 60% of motorcyclists fail to use any form of secondary security device and in the knowledge that motorcycle theft figures remain stubbornly high in the UK, Oxford has invested in a new tool to help educate riders.

Aspire to help bikers

Aspire, the national spinal cord injury charity, along with Knobblies, GB Riders and EuroK Motorcycle clubs are holding a D-Day rideout to raise vital funds.

30th anniversary for Stafford

An impressive list of legendary machines and equally famous riders have been gathered together for the 30th Carole Nash International Classic Motorcycle Show, held at Stafford County Showground, over the weekend of 24-25 April.

The Thundersprint

Saturday and Sunday 8-9 May sees the annual Thundersprint take over the Cheshire town of Northwich. There are loads of attractions over the weekend and best of all it’s completely free!

LION TAMED

Peugeot celebrates its 200th birthday with a new logo and identity.

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