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  1. TENAX, a World leading brand in the production and commercialization of products for processing and treatment of stone materials, will support the Aprilia Racing Team Gresini also in the 2016 MotoGP World Championship. Tenax Group, which is celebrating this year its sixtieth anniversary, has in fact renewed its partnership agreement with Gresini Racing: a successful collaboration that started back in 2008 in the premier class of motorcycle racing.

    The story of Tenax began in 1956 in the province of Verona from a small company called "Brothers Bombana Angelo and Guido", which was producing mastic for the local market. Since 1960 the company confirmed its presence on the market by introducing new products such as abrasives for marble and granite, cutting tools, diamond abrasives and epoxy resins.

    In 1998, as well as focusing on the wide range of products offered, Tenax started to develop its international branches. Currently it has eleven branches in the World, with exports to over 100 Countries and a number of employees close to 300 units.

    www.tenax.it


    GINO BOMBANA (Tenax Group President)
    “We are very pleased to renew the partnership with Team Gresini. Sharing the experience of MotoGP with Fausto and his team has already given us a lot of satisfactions in recent years, and I’m sure will continue in the future. The principles that join Tenax Group with Team Gresini, and generally with all the World of MotoGP, are the enthusiasm, the propensity for innovation, the attention to detail and the pursuit of higher technological value for the realization of our products. We are also proud to join our name with brands such as Aprilia and Gresini, which represent the excellence and quality of Made in Italy all over the World, another element that unites us. I wish to Fausto, to its riders and to the entire team a year of growth, full of successes and satisfactions, hoping that they can give us and all the motorcycling fans an exciting season”.


    FAUSTO GRESINI
    “It’s a great pleasure to be able to continue working with Tenax, being a valuable partner of our team for many years in MotoGP. 2016 is an important year for both: Tenax Group in fact is celebrating 60 years of activity, while for Gresini Racing this is the twentieth season in Grand Prix racing. Important milestones that demonstrate the great commitment at international level of two entities with a strong Italian tradition. I wish to thank the President Gino Bombana and all Tenax Group because they have always followed and follow us with great passion and enthusiasm”.

  2. Cornwall’s Forest Dunn is to make TT Mountain Course debut at the 2016 Isle Of Man TT Races fuelled by Monster Energy.

    The Falmouth rider, who will ride for his own Forest Dunn Racing team, will compete in the RL360 Superstock, RST Superbike and PokerStars Senior TT Races on his Superstock Spec Kawasaki ZX10R with different livery for each race as he has backing from Infinity Security, BMA Carbon and Maen Carn Concrete products respectively for his TT 2016 campaign.

    28 year old Forest started racing in 2012 and has won Hottrax Eundrance and ‘No Limits’ Racing Series. His career highlights include 20th placed finishes in Superbike and Superstock races at NW200 on his debut in 2015.

    Forest will be spending a number of days on the Isle of Man in the run up to this year’s TT Races in preparation for his debut as part of the Newcomers programme, learning from the TT rider liaison officers as he prepares to fulfil his lifelong ambition.

    On hearing the news that his race entry for the 2016 Isle of Man TT Races had been accepted he said:

    “To say I am buzzing is an understatement, I always aimed to race at the TT before I was 30, and thanks to my hard work and the help of my loyal sponsors it’s happening this year! I can’t thank Paul Phillips and the TT organising team enough for the chance to show what I am capable of.”

    He continued:

    “I have had a few folk behind the scenes making this all happen - Craig at CMR Performance, Infinitus Security, Ward Groupage Newry, LaserMaster, Southwest Motorcycles, Bennetts Gardens Barry and Dolina Hughes and SR Electrical and BMA Carbon, all of whom have provided help over this winter to make both myself and the bike the best we can be, I will be spending several weekends over on the island between now and practice week soaking up the knowledge of rider liaison officers Milky Quayle and Johnny Barton.”

    Forest Dunn Revs Up For Isle of Man TT Races

  3. Hello friends of THE BIKER GUIDE and Thank You for your business over the past few years.

    We unfortunately have come to a point in our lives where age health and the draw of grandchildren in UK has to overtake this adventure this dream. We do not wish to see it close, but we can no longer continue the development.

    We are offering for sale our properties and our dream of a Bikersbase in this wonderful location at an amazingly low price, when compared to the average UK house prices. To take over from us what's needed is a little adventuring spirit, interest in a new free-er life style, a portion of enthusiasm, some basic people skills and the sale price of course. Before you ask we thank you, but we do not wish to try obtaining managers again.

    We are offering this fantastic opportunity for you to be able to purchase our wonderfully centrally located facility which lies amongst some of the finest roads and cultural attractions central Portugal can offer, not forgetting the nearly year round sunshine.

    Of course you do not have to keep it as a bikers only place. The business side of the facility {main house} for those of you who have not visited, is currently set up as an eight en-suite bedroomed upper floor with half the ground floor set up as dining/bar area. The remaining half is underused, housing a sizeable kitchen and washing room.

    There are also included on site a large workshop/garage, a large storage warehouse, a very tastefully done single bedroomed bungalow with own lounge, kitchen, bathroom, and patio.

    The whole facility would greatly benefit from opening the doors to all types of tourists or visitors surveys on Booking.com and Airbnb they could sell far more of the rooms we have on a much more regular basis than we have been 
    prepared to accept whilst trying to keep it as a |Bikers only facility.

    Genuine interested parties can contact us via e-mail

    [email protected]

    Alan n Sharon Wheelwright

    www.bikersbase.com

  4. We have recently put together (with help from our visitors) a list of songs inspired by (or even with the sound of) motorbikes...

    Today, Liz Kershaw on Radio 6 asked for suggestions of motorcycle themed songs and we were happy to oblige and even had a mention (35 minutes in).

    To hear the full programme, that also features Jean Jaques Burnel of the stranglers being interviewed where he talks about the upcoming tour and his love of the motorbike, listen here

    To see the full list on THE BIKER GUIDE go here