Uh oh. Don’t say we didn’t warn you. But the heavens have opened in more ways than one…
NEWS
WHITE RIOT
Steve Gannicott has been a busy man recently. The erstwhile managing director of stack ’em high, sell ’em cheap multi franchiser George White saw that operation enter administration in January. His response was to form a new company – Megamotorcycle Stores, with David Matton listed as sole director. Matton had previously been listed as director of…. you guessed it…. George White. And that’s just the beginning.
ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST – V&J LATEST
The latest news on the V&J closure, a story broken by BG at the beginning of the week.
PANIGALE: hype alert….
Or, as so memorably put by The Wolf in Pulp Fiction, ‘let’s not…
ARIEL: WORLD EXCLUSIVE…..
The very latest update from Ariel on their new bike: the facts …
GP & WSBK: some home truths…
The first thing an interested observer has to understand regarding MotoGP’s crisis management strategy – or the lack of one – is the business relationship between the premier class and WSBK.
NEC: JURY MISSING…
Despite the prescence of this iconic piece of kit…
… the NEC marathon inevitably had a kind of ‘after the Lord Mayor’s show’ feel about it.
EICMA 2011: KTM take the honours
There were few real surprises at the Milan show, but we reckon KTM get the team award for innovation – for the simple reason that their new contenders combine real world relevance with design flair.
MILAN 2011: ARRIVALS…
It’s showtime.
Milan and the NEC get the ball rolling: the former is the significant one in terms of launches.
ARIEL RELOADED
bg paid a visit to the local Atom factory to interview Ariel MD Simon Saunders on the new Ariel motorcycle, due late in 2012. We talked Atom, vehicle design, and gained a unique insight into development of the forthcoming bike. The converstion took place a few metres from one of the most inspiring production machines ever, the art object that is the Ariel HT5.
DIRECT ACTION – the MAG protest
September 25th 2011: a day of UK rider protest has been called for, and start points chosen for a two wheeled demo. Predictably, however, the UK biker lobby is divided on the action. So what’s the bottom line here?