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Adelaide Motorbike Awards

8th October 2014

Grand Prix Stars Launch Adelaide Motorbike Awards Local Grand Prix stars Jeremy McWilliams and Natalie Kane have launched the search for Ireland’s top bike racers in 2014. The winners will be revealed at the Adelaide Motorbike Awards at the Ramada Plaza Hotel in Belfast on January 23 in the New Year. Once again organisers have […]

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Sainsburys – Parking Up!

7th October 2014

In November 2011 we reported about the new Sainsbury’s supermarket built in Bangor which had a dedicated motorcycle parking bay opposite the front doors of the new store. The bay, large in size has blockpaving on its surface area which means no sinking sidestands, while the surrounding car park has a “tarmac” surface. The block […]

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Angels of Hope

6th October 2014

Angels Of Hope – Ovarian Cancer Awareness – Charity Ride Out On a weekend when we saw the temperatures drop,  I headed out to N.I. Bikers & Trikers Club Angels Of Hope charity ride out. Meeting at A1 Tyres on the A1 between Dromore and Banbridge, over a hundred bikes assembled to take part in […]

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Riding to the Moon

1st October 2014

The Department of the Environment (DOE) has recently released the Annual Statistical Report 2014 which provides information which will be utilized by the DOE in its annual report regarding the Northern Ireland Road Safety Strategy to 2020. The Northern Ireland Road Safety Strategy to 2020 was published in March 2011 and outlined the key road […]

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Tax Disc Gone

1st October 2014

From today Wednesday the 1st October 2014, the paper tax disc will no longer need to be displayed on a vehicle. If you haven’t heard or have not been reading our updates on the ending of the paper vehicle tax disc after 93 years, then this article will be new news. Two of the most […]

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Mid-Antrim Sanctuary

29th September 2014

Weekend weather report – it was another good one! As the Captain of a ferry from here to Scotland said to my dentist last week – we are going to have another four weeks of this – thus the weekends Quay Vipers MCC ride out for the Mid-Antrim Sanctuary basked in rays of sunshine. The […]

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Exemptions Periodic Testing

26th September 2014

The DfT – Department for Transport in GB are asking people to discuss and make suggestions about changes to road-worthiness testing for classic vehicles. While this is not strictly a run of the mill consultation there is no doubt that the outcome of this will have an effect on periodic testing – MoT – for […]

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Ride Out – For Peace

23rd September 2014

Bigg Life Motorcycle Ride Out – For Peace What could be more perfect than a motorcycle – a ride out with a purpose – sunshine – barbeque – a band – meeting some old faces who you haven’t seen for an age but who are still surprisingly fresh enough looking. The ride out was organised […]

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Adelaide Slow Ride

23rd September 2014

Last week while hovering over a table of various canapés and cocktail sausages at the rebranding launch of Adelaide Insurance Services as Cornmarket Insurance Services, I was introduced (thanks Monty) to the folks from the Adelaide Advanced Motorcyclists group. Our first conversation was about the group name and whether it would be changing to reflect […]

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Guardrails Kill Motorcyclists

22nd September 2014

A8 between Belfast And Larne Northern Ireland: The new A8 (Larne Line) Duelling Project is under construction by a consortium of companies, government departments and is funded by various means including- Lagan Construction, Ferrovial Agroman and Costain Ltd. It is co-financed by the European Union Trans-European Transport Network (TENT), Northern Ireland Assembly and the Irish […]

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