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MDM heads to The Barber Motor Museum on a dream holiday!

Dave Manning — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 19:00:11 +0000

For many of us, a holiday abroad is not a true holiday if it doesn’t involve motorcycles in one form or another. Dave Manning interrupted his trip in the USA

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Happy B’day to BikeReview.com.au! We Turn Five Today!

Bike Review — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 19:30:39 +0000

On this day in 2015 we went live. Wow, what a ride it has been, in that time alone we have reviewed over 200 motorcycles! Last month we had 86,800

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Feature: Moto Guzzi Open House with Dave Manning

Dave Manning — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 21:50:44 +0000

Nestled in the hills at the southern edge of the Italian Alps, the Moto Guzzi factory is a shining example of a traditional engineering factory – a brick building built

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Gallery: BMW Motorrad Days 2019, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Dave Manning — Sun, 09 Feb 2020 19:00:13 +0000

The 2019 BMW Motorrad Days event held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, was jam-packed with loads of custom bikes, concepts and prototypes, electric bikes, superbikes and various other machines. Read full event

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MDM Visits BMW Motorrad Days

Dave Manning — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 19:00:10 +0000

When conversation turns to bikes and the natural one-up-manship of who’s got what bike, even in these enlightened times the fact that someone says they own a BMW gives them

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Fightin’ Words with Dave Manning, Spring 2019

Dave Manning — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 05:19:08 +0000

Despite many streetfighters being built to look like race bikes, handle like race bikes, make the same power as race bikes (or significantly more), and use the same parts as

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Fightin’ Words with Dave Manning. Spare Cash? July 2019

Dave Manning — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 20:18:22 +0000

OK, so it is 18-months since my last column. I’ve been flat out and had to dedicate some important time to family, but I’m back rambling again! Have you

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Fightin’ Words with Dave MDM Manning, May 2018

Dave Manning — Wed, 23 May 2018 01:33:13 +0000

For those of us who’re more than happy to accept the epithet of ‘petrolhead’, there is little we like more than spending time in our garage, working on our own personal choice

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Fightin’ Words with Dave MDM Manning, April 2018

Dave Manning — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:47:37 +0000

It’s no great surprise that workshop tools feature high on our wish list, given that the greater majority of us who are reading BikeReview are pretty much hands-on.

The kind

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Fightin’ Words with Dave MDM Manning, March 2018

Dave Manning — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 22:03:14 +0000

One of the major disadvantages – not that there are many – of customising any kind of motorcycle is that the bike has to be taken off the road while

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