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One of my first ever jobs as a fledgling bike journalist was attending a presentation at the then-importer of Yamaha, Mitsui. This was 1992 and it was about Mitsui's new bike marking system called Datatag, which was, we were told, going to have a major effect on the endemic bike theft problem.

It’s time for the motorcycle industry to have a serious think about its priorities, because they're looking bizarrely skewed right now.

Viral videos usually work because they're shocking, funny, very witty or show something unusual or dramatic happening. It has to be enough to get whoever sees one to forward a link to friends and connections, who hopefully do the same.

The news is that the Scottish government is to lower the drink-drive limit as a priority, bringing forward plans to introduce a 50mg limit in place of the current UK-wide 80mg limit.

Motorcycle riders as a group are much more resistant to anti-lock braking systems than car drivers, which can seem odd when you consider that a locked wheel on a car generally means a bit of tyre screech, where on a bike it usually means you fall off.

The recent news that Suzuki is closing down a third of its UK dealer network had an air of inevitability about it, following the collapse in the company’s sales here in the last few years.

October 24

Every now and then, the planets line up perfectly.