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Storming Comeback for Edmondson at Crychan
12 August 2008
The third round of the Metzeler ACU British Enduro Championship took place in the Crychan Forest near Llandovery at the weekend, with Relentless Suzuki Enduro rider, Paul Edmondson, experiencing the ultimate in highs and lows on his RM250. Fresh from his recent World Enduro Championship success, Edmondson was keen to strengthen his BEC series standings but had to endure the highs and lows of enduro after a problem with his rear shock absorber on day one forced him to retire from further competition on the day. Wet conditions made for very hard going but Edmondson was riding well, completely unfazed by the slippery course, until the mechanical hiccup.
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Hollyoaks Star Storms to Eighth IN GSX-R Trophy
29 July 2008
Hollyoaks actor, Stuart Manning, stormed to eighth place in the Suzuki GSX-R Trophy at the weekend, as he rode the Suzuki GB wild card bike at Anglesey circuit in North Wales. Manning, known on-screen as Russell Owen in the channel four TV soap, has been a keen motorcyclist and racer for a number of years, and accepted the offer to ride in the series after watching the championship support the British Grand Prix at Donington Park last month.
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First Day Podium for Albergoni in Wet Wales
29 July 2008
Starting the second half of the 2008 World Enduro Championship in style Italian UFO Course Yamaha rider Simone Albergoni narrowly missed out on claiming the Enduro 1 class win on day one of the Grand Prix of Wales, claiming an eventual second place behind Yamaha France rider Marc Germain.
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Hollyoaks Actor To Race In GSX-R Trophy
24 July 2008
Hollyoaks actor, Stuart Manning, who plays Russell Owen in the hit Channel 4 television soap, has signed-up to race in the forthcoming ACU Suzuki GSX-R600 Trophy race, being held at Anglesey circuit in North Wales on the 26th and 27th July. Manning, a keen motorcyclist, accepted the invitation to race in the one make race series, after watching the second round of the series in June as it supported the British Grand Prix at Donington Park in Leicestershire.
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Edmondson Prepares for World Enduro Ride
15 July 2008
Relentless Suzuki Enduro rider, Paul Edmondson, prepares this week for the British round of the World Enduro Championship taking place at the Hafren Forest in Wales at the weekend. Riding the two-stroke RM250, Edmondson makes a return to the world stage, where he recorded four championship titles and still retains the accolade of being the longest serving rider in the series history.
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More Points for Jenny in Supersport Cup!
03 July 2008
Since her impressive results a couple of weeks ago at Snetterton, Jenny couldn’t bear the thought of a weekend without racing, so she teamed up with Fergus, her sponsor from sorrymate.com and headed off to South Wales, and the interesting circuit of Pembrey, for a bit of fun competing in the Hottrax Junior TAG Endurance Race. After a demanding 102 laps, ‘team sorrymate.com’ finished the race in 7th position overall, and the best of the 600’s, with Jenny herself, recording the 2nd fastest lap of the race.
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Biker Paul Stars in New PlayStation 2 Game
03 July 2008
A top North Wales biker has a starring role in a new all-action PlayStation 2 game. One of the virtual riders in the game is based on speed king Paul Owen, from Llangollen. Paul, 36, is fresh from competing in the legendary Isle of Man TT series for the 12th time. Bike fans will be able to see his collection of powerful TT motorbikes and trophies in real life soon. He’s going to be putting them on display at the Motorbike Show in his hometown in August. But Paul can next be seen in action on the small screen thanks to Jester Interactive, developers of TT Superbikes Real Road Racing Championship, a PlayStation 2 game that is released this Friday, July 4th.
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Victory Motorcycles Cruise into Wales
03 July 2008
Victory Motorcycles has announced the appointment of a new dealership in South Wales – Real World Motorcycles in Aberdare. Real World opened its doors six years ago and has since specialised in niche brands such as Benelli and Moto Morini. It is in this area of speciality that the dealership has excelled. Founder, Martin Thomas, said of Victory Motorcycles: “I visited the Victory stand at last year’s NEC show and was very impressed with the style and build quality of the machines.
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National Minibike Battle Resumes in Cardiff
07 June 2008
Fresh from the huge opening round success, the battle to discover the various eventual victors of the 2008 MBP – Powersports National 4 Stroke Minibike Championships continues at the brand new CMX facility in Cardiff. Round two takes place on Sunday 8th of June and promises to be a suitable sequel to the high drama that unfolded at Bonneville, Essex during the initial encounter that opened the 2008 campaign in some style.
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Three Wins in One Week for Edmondson
23 May 2008
Relentless Suzuki Enduro rider Paul Edmondson pulled off the incredible feat on Sunday of scoring three event wins in just one week on board his new RM-Z450. At last weekend’s opening round of the Michelin Fast Cross series, Edmondson took the first victory in style, before going on to triumph on Wednesday at the opening round of the CF Racing XC series and finally topping it off with a win on Sunday in the third round of the Putoline XC Championship at Llandrillo, North Wales.
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Extra IXON Track Day Announced
15 May 2008
The overwhelming response and success of the debut IXON Track/Fun Day at Cadwell Park (22nd April) has prompted Thunderchild to add an extra date this summer taking it to three complete days. Pembrey Circuit in Wales, the home of Welsh Motorsport, will now host the second IXON Track/Fun Day during the height of summer on 24th July. All you need to take part in the action-packed day is own a full motorcycle road or ACU racing licence, and your bike to comply with the 105db noise limit. Oh, not forgetting your IXON leather suit!
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Edmondson Claims Welsh Win
30 April 2008
Relentless Suzuki Enduro Team rider Paul ‘Fast Eddy’ Edmondson claimed victory over the weekend in the opening round of the WOR Events organised XC Championship. Running at Llandrillo, North Wales, the event took in some spectacular scenery as the tough course wound its way through forests and along trail sections throughout the three hour race.
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IPCC Clears Chief Constable Richard Brunstrom
10 November 2007
The Independent Police Complaints Comission (IPCC) has cleared North Wales Chief Constable Richard Brunstrom of any wrongdoing in an investigation into the display of a decapitated motorcyclist at the launch of a road safety campaign - without the consent of the biker's family.
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Bikes Banned From The Park
09 November 2007
The Motorcycle Action Group (MAG UK) express grave concerns at the North Wales police proposal to consider banning motorcycles from the National Park.
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Win a BMW Off-Road Skills Course – For Two!
21 July 2007
Bridgestone and its ‘Battle Wing 501-502’ tyre are offering one lucky winner and a friend the chance to win a BMW Off-Road Skills Level 1 course on 8 – 9 September 2007. The ‘Battle Wing 501-502’ has been developed for the ever increasing numbers of powerful adventure sports bikes, including the F 650 GS and R 1200 GS. With the 80% road / 20% off-road bias in mind, the ‘Battle Wing’ combines superb green lane ability along with truly remarkable on-road performance.
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Gary Taylor Champ Of Big Air Jam
20 July 2007
Margam park Wednesday 18th July happened to be the location for this year Big Air Jam event as 3500 visitor witness Gary Taylor become crowned master of freestyle moto cross champion on one of the nicest days we have had in July so far. The sun was out and so to were some the worlds best freestyle motocross athletes, battling it out for the title of king of freestyle. Gary Taylor, who is 24 years old form Coventry rode out of his skin to take victory in all three categories, Taylor took command very early on in the night by leading the likes of Kris Brock and Jamie Squibb plus many more top class freestyle mx riders, giving Taylor the advantage of being last out in the final run. This allowed him to watch all the other riders to see what he needed for the final run win.
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Big Air Jam
04 July 2007
UKfmx presents ‘THE BIG AIR JAM’ Freestyle motor-cross championship. The aim of the competition is to help raise money for BTCV’s Fast 50 Learning Project which is a community off road bike project, recently in receipt of a grant from the Neath & Port Talbot Community Safety Team. The Fast 50 Learning Project is delivered in partnership with the Neath & Port Talbot Community Safety Team. This project brings the exciting fast action world of biking to the classroom, and allows interested members of the community to gain accredited skills and tackles the issues around off-road illegal riding, Funds raised by the events will go towards developing and expanding the project at a dedicated site in Ystalyfera. On Wednesday 18th July we welcome some of the world's best freestyle riders - including Britain's very own Gary Taylor, Kris Brock, Dave Wiggins, Danny Veale, Jamie Squibb, plus many more fantastic freestyle athletes. They promise an exciting adrenalin-fuelled high flying performance which will leave you stunned. A group of young people from the Fast 50 Learning Project have worked hard at training sessions to enable them to judge the riders' performances, so the riders may find themselves facing their harshest critics yet! Each event will be filmed by the Extreme Sports Channel so a large and noisy turn out is very much expected.
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