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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.

The TriDays event in Austria is the newest of the one-brand bike gatherings, and it's probably the most eccentric.

We've had a glut of big capacity scooters with high specs this year, like BMW’s new C-series, Aprilia’s mad SRV850 and Yamaha’s all-new T-Max. How can Piaggio's 350cc X10 compete?

Back in the 1980s a friend and I were thumbing through an American motorcycle magazine when we saw a picture that’s stayed with me ever since.

When Claudio Castiglioni bought MV Agusta back from Harley-Davidson in the summer of 2010 he must, surely, have wondered at his good fortune.

Moto Guzzi’s thoroughly revised V7 Special is hardly lacking in authenticity. Not only is it built in the same factory as the original V7 machines of the 1970s, its engine is directly developed from the V50 of the same decade.

Another year and another new market sector for BMW. The Germans rocked the motorcycle world with the S1000RR two years ago, a bike which barged into the high performance superbike sector and not so much trod on the toes of the established Japanese order, it knocked them all sideways with its ultra-high spec and searing performance.