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Race Tech 'Hooligan'

The main men and the Retro, (l to r) Nick Gale, Richard Bushell
and Mark Wilsmore.

Pioneering technology that helped Leon Haslam and Greg Lavilla win rounds of the 2007 British Superbike Series on their Airwaves Ducatis is to be offered on the bikes being created to celebrate the Ace Cafe’s 70th anniversary.

Urbane Racing’s InTech ultrasonic induction control valve and PowerPro
variable flow exhaust system are claimed to increase performance and
slash emissions. Their adoption on the S&S SB100 V-twin engine being used in the Retro cafe racers could result in a power output as high as 135bhp.

Nick Gale, the award-winning custom biker builder who has teamed up with Ace Cafe directors Mark Wilsmore and George Tsuchnikas to form the Stonebridge Motor Co to build the machines, said Urbane Racing’s technology would have a major impact.

He said: “Every bike needs one thing that no other bike has got. For us this is it. It looks good, it sounds good, it works and it does so in a green way. I am more excited about this than any other bike I have ever done.”

The plan was to build a lavish oneoff show bike to compete in the prestigious S&S 50th anniversary competition being staged in Wisconsin at the end of June and to produce for sale 100 slightly lower spec but more ‘affordable’ versions.

Now exact replicas of the show machine are also going to be marketed. They will cost about £35,000 – £10,000 more than the standard model.

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Call to action!

Join our protest! Bikers in Cumbria get ready for action.

Bikers in Cumbria are staging a near 150-mile demonstration ride against changes in the motorcycle licence exam that they claim will put the lives of L-riders at risk.

The demo on 11 May is over the same distance many learner riders in the county will have to make face to take the new exam because it introduces ‘swerve and braking’ tests that cannot be conducted at existing test centres at Barrow-in Furness and Kendal.

The new tests due in October have to be conducted offroad – a move that has resulted in the Driving Standards Agency announcing the proposed construction of a network of 66 Multi Purpose Test Centres at a cost of £71 million.

The MPTC taking over the role from the Barrow and Kendal centres is in Carlisle – a trip of 70 miles and more than two hours each way.

Edmund Chambers, one of the demo organisers, said: “We are not happy that inexperienced riders are going to have to make such a long journey. The plan is a waste of taxpayers’ money and is likely to cost lives.”

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PUTTING YOU IN THE PICTURE

This Bandit was spotted in a police car park. The car park at the Metropolitan Police Peel Centre Training School to be precise. Most people know the place better as Hendon. That’s where the 2008 National BikeSafe Motorcycle Show was staged – see report page 16

Rain kept people at home on the Saturday but the place was packed on Sunday. So why did we choose to snap this particular Suzuki from the thousands of bikes that were there? Mainly the IAM sticker on that huge Givvi topbox.

Either the owner has passed the Institute of Advanced Motorists motorcycle test or stolen the bike from someone who has. We hope the former. Our own John Sharratt writes in this issue about passing that test and recommends you have a go too.

If the Bandit owner writes to the address on the top of the page or sends an email to us at
we will send them a Duke Marketing DVD. That’s the idea behind this feature – we snap a picture of a bike at an event we have attended and reward the owner for picking up MCM by giving them one of Duke’s excellent films. Over the next few weeks we are going to be out and about at many of the events featured in our Whatwherewhen section. Look out for your picture and claim your prize. Motor Cycle monthly hits the streets the first Friday of every month – for issue 24 that’s 6 June.

Or drop us a line at Motor Cycle Monthly, Putting You in the Picture, Freepost DC113, Horncastle, Lincs LN9 6BR.

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