Author Archive: irish biker

October 15, 2015

Accommodation available pre TT Classic 2016 Castletown

Accommodation available pre TT Classic 2016 Castletown We are Homestay registered and have a twin room available from around 26th May until leaving 2nd June and a double room from the 26th of May until leaving 31st May overlooking start of the Billown circuit, perfect for the pre-TT Classic as a couple of minutes […]

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October 15, 2015

Top 10 most SORNed bikes

Top 10 most SORNed bikes BACK when it was introduced, the Statutory Off-Road Notice – SORN – wasn’t terribly popular. It’s still a pain if you prefer to only tax your bike for part of the year. But on the plus side it does provide access to some intriguing information. The latest set of […]

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October 15, 2015

Buchan set to defend Sunflower title

Buchan set to defend Sunflower title Essex rider Danny Buchan is set to face a strong challenge as he defends his Sunflower Trophy title at Bishopscourt. Among Buchan’s competitors on 24 October will be newly crowned British Superstock 1000cc champion Josh Elliott and Tyco BMW entrant Alastair Seeley. Keith Farmer will join Elliott in […]

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October 15, 2015

A truly useful electric bike

A truly useful electric bike The electric motorcycle that’s also a suitcase. HOT from the European Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market comes this design patent for a new bike, which stretches the definitions of ‘motorcycle’ and ‘suitcase’ by trying to be both.  The design, filed by the wonderfully-named Boris Kunc from Slovenia, […]

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October 15, 2015

Pillion experience before trip.

Pillion experience before trip. How’yiz As some of you might have seen from my thread bout the cheap 2-up tourer I’m planning a couple of trips next year with the missus. (It’s lookin like it’ll be a Fazer 1000 at the moment). I’m hoping to do one or two weekend trips 2-up […]

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October 15, 2015

s4 916 monster slow starting

s4 916 monster slow starting well dudes, my 2002 s4 monster is very slow to start takes about 15 or 30 seconds to fire up small bit quicker when hot but not much,i have fitted new factory spec battery,plugs,filters,leads the lot, sometimes the starter runs free without engaging, im being told its the […]

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October 15, 2015

Is this what the Suzuki VStrom 250 might look like

Is this what the Suzuki VStrom 250 might look like THIS is what Suzuki’s rumoured V-Strom 250 might look like, according to a Japanese magazine. Young Machine, which has recently been churning out renderings almost faster than we can keep up, has printed this image in its latest issue. The bike is supposedly heavily based on […]

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October 15, 2015

Stolen Bike Cork: Honda Bros

Stolen Bike Cork: Honda Bros Hey lads, sorry if this is in the wrong place. My Honda Bros was stolen from my front garden today in Turners Cross. Registration 91LM898, it’s worth nothing but was getting me to and from work everyday, It was locked to a gate and they managed to cut through […]

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