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  California Superbike School with BMW Motorrad – how to hone the craft while taking it to the edge, in safety

  20 February 2017 / 4 comments

  Having ridden and raced motorcycles for over three-and-a-half decades, there are many who ask me for tips and guidance on how to ride motorcycles. To the many such requests I get, I usually decline, pointing […]

   

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  2017 Ducati price list for Malaysia released – price reductions up to RM14,000, new models coming in May

  10 February 2017 / 14 comments

  2017 pricing for Ducati’s entire range in Malaysia has been released. Pricing – all of which includes GST but without registration and insurance – ranges from a base of RM49,999 for the 399 cc Ducati […]

   

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  2017 Honda Wave Dash Fi Limited – from RM5,775.94

  7 February 2017 / 9 comments

  Building on the success of the 2017 Honda EX5 Dream Fi Limited Edition released in November last year, Boon Siew Honda Malaysia has launched the 2017 Honda Wave Dash Fi Limited Edition. Two model variants […]

   

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  Police to eradicate mat rempit menace once and for all

  7 February 2017 / 40 comments

  An all-out effort will be made to eradicate the menace of motorcycle hooligans, colloquially known as mat rempit, from streets and highways in Selangor. Measures will include locating all unauthorised exits and narrow roads leading […]

   

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  Benelli appoints MForce Bike Holdings as Malaysian distributor – new 150 cc supercub in the works

  6 February 2017 / 13 comments

  With effect from February 1, 2017, MForce Bike Holdings is appointed official distributor for Benelli Motorcycles in Malaysia. The previous Malaysian Benelli distributor was Benelli Keeway, and the new agreement includes assembly, distribution, after-sales service […]

   

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  Capirossi: more work needed on Sepang track surface

  2 February 2017 / 8 comments

  After extensive renovations and tarmac resurfacing work at Sepang International Circuit (SIC) from February to May of last year, problems with drainage and water retention emerged at certain sections of the track during MotoGP tyre […]

   

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  2017 KTM RC16 MotoGP racebike – first look at SIC

  31 January 2017 / 4 comments

  After the race debut of the 2017 KTM RC16 MotoGP race bike at Valencia, Spain, last year, many have asked what the new kid on the block is like, as a race bike? During the […]

   

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  2017 Ducati Desmosedici GP17 – what’s in the box?

  31 January 2017 / 3 comments

  After the recent launch of the Ducati MotoGP team – with riders Jorge Lorenzo and Andrea Dovizioso – along with the Desmosedici GP17, some questions emerged about a rather mysterious looking box on the tail-end […]

   

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  2017 will see launch of six new Modenas machines

  25 January 2017 / 13 comments

  It appears as if 2017 is going to be a busy and exciting year for Modenas. After the recent launch of the 2017 Modenas Karisma 125, Elegan 250 as well as the Kymco Downtown 250i […]

   

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  2017 Kawasaki Z900, Ninja 650, Z650 and Versys-X 250 launched in Malaysia – prices start from below RM25k

  24 January 2017 / 23 comments

  As part of its campaign to regain lost market share from 2016, Kawasaki Motors Malaysia (KMM) yesterday launched four new models – the 2017 Kawasaki Z900 and Z650 naked sports bike, the Ninja 650 sports […]

   

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  Malaysian family of three travels 6,011 km in 16 days across Indo-china by kapchai and scooter

  23 January 2017 / 10 comments

  Motorcyclists are familiar with that wanderlust, the urge to take the road less travelled and see what’s on the other side. In the case of Rusli Osman (37), and his wife Yong Suzi (43), along […]

   

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  Motorcycle road tax and insurance – what do you pay?

  20 January 2017 / 63 comments

  It is a known fact that the road tax for vehicles in Malaysia does not actually bear any real relation to the amount of road use, or damage to the public road infrastructure. Based on […]

   

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  Ministry of education working closely with police and JPJ to instil motorcycle safety in school students

  19 January 2017 / 10 comments

  As part of ongoing efforts to instil road safety awareness in secondary school students, the Malaysian Ministry of Education is working in conjunction with the police and Road Transport department (JPJ). Ministry deputy director-general Datuk […]

   

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  Kelantan man wins Kawasaki H2 hyperbike lucky draw

  19 January 2017 / 5 comments

  It was good news in the new year for Cik Asmani Che Kub of Kelantan, who won the grand prize of a Kawasaki H2 worth RM150,000 in the Kawasaki Malaysia Day final draw held at […]

   

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  2017 sees Honda CB650F naked sports and CBR650F sportsbike in new colour schemes – from RM44,730

  18 January 2017 / 12 comments

  With the demise of the Honda CBR600RR as Honda’s middleweight sportsbike, the CB650F and CBR650F soldier on into 2017 with two special new colour schemes. Priced at RM44,730 for the CB650F naked sports and RM46,850 […]

   

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