Ace Cafe London's "Ace Corner" stand and display will once again return and feature at the forthcoming, 6th annual "Iron Bikers", the race track based event held over the weekend 23rd & 24th April at Circuit Carole on the northern edge of Paris.

The event, with its special mix of machines from the 1950's to the 1980's, including classic bikes, old racing bikes, replica machines and cafe racers, plus unique and historic collections of 1970's motorcycles, gets over 300 machines roaring and racing on the track, together with club and the various make and marque stands and displays, trade stands and autojumble all located within the easy to get to circuit

This year Iron Bikers also plays host to the renown Joe Bar race team as well as a return of the "Food Truck Festival", with the best of the" new Parisien street cuisine", and along with the ever eclectic array of stands and displays by artist's, photographer's, tattooist's (and a barber!) there is the all-important, and open to all, live music Parc Ferme Party with the band ".The Flying Gaskets”

Bon Voyage... parking is free... see you there!

www.ironbikers.fr

For more info about Ace Cafe London and what's on, check out: www.ace-cafe-london.com

Firstly, we want to thank those people that completed the rally survey in March. We had a much bigger response to it than expected, which goes to show the continuing support from regular rally goers as well as increasing interest from bikers new to the rally scene. With the high level of response and suggestions, it may take some time to put actions in place to make Yorkshire MAG rallies even better but we are hoping to introduce some in 2016. At Farmyard Party, for example, we are providing some prepared tents for those wanting to travel light and putting some additional entertainment on the Friday afternoon so that you can start the party early.

Moving on - Into The Valley is now only a few weeks away. As you may have seen on our Facebook page, we have decided to put heaters on in the entertainment and bars areas so that you're kept warm on the spring evenings. We will also have Zoopa "the hot soup and goulash man" to help keep you warm with his ex-German Army field kitchen bike. And, of course, we have a fantastic line up of bands for evening entertainment and comedians for Saturday afternoon, full details of which are provided below. It's been a while since last year's rally season and so we are looking forward to catching up with friends around the camp-fire or over a few beers.

Don't forget our cut off dates for Into The Valley tickets, which are the 15th of April for postal bookings and the 24th for telephone and web bookings.

See you all on the 29th of April at Into The Valley.

No Cars, No Vans, No Pedestrians, No Excuses.

Flat trackers, drags and customs will be blasting around the demo hall at KICKBACK!

It's always thrilling to see the best custom made motorcycles in the metal, but at next weekend's KICKBACK exhibition visitors will get the chance to see dozens of display bikes fired up and blasting around the demo hall!

See the website for more, including a small collection of specials from Steve at Redmax; they're going to be fired up and ridden in the demo hall during the weekend.

www.TheCustomShow.com

We would like to thank you for passing by our stand @ the Manchester Bike Show last weekend and we hope you had a great time at the show!

Some of our winners who visited THE BIKER GUIDE stand... 

Winner Biddy Fisher, with Lisa Isam, Jo Williams and Catherine Howe at the Manchester Bike Show 2016

Geraint James -  winner of tickets for the Manchester Bike Show

Robin Coates and son Isaac - winner of tickets @ the Manchester Bike Show

Kevin and Jane O'Kane - winners of tickets @ the Manchester Bike Show

Sandra Elizabeth Wood - winner of tickets for the Manchester Bike Show

Alex Lally - winner of tickets for the Manchester Bike Show

Also Chris Thomas who did pass by (no photographic evidence), however had his picture taken with the lovely girls from Ducati... We love you anyway Chris!

There were lots of entries to win tickets to Stormin' the Castle, a BIKERS WELCOME BANNER and also for the 2 night stay for two @ the very Biker Friendly Stair Arms Hotel on the main Edinburgh to the Borders route, in Midlothian, Scotland... Winners will be announced soon!

MOTOGP - APRILIA HEADS TO TEXAS SEEKING CONFIRMATION

AFTER THE POSITIVE SIGNS IN THE FIRST TWO RACES, BRADL AND BAUTISTA ARE KEEN TO CONTINUE IMPROVING

In 2015 the Austin circuit in Texas had Aprilia taking its first championship point in their new MotoGP adventure. This year things are rather different. The new 2016 Aprilia RS-GP began its path of growth well and, despite being a brand new project, in the first two races of the season it demonstrated reliability and finished in the points (in Qatar) and twice in the top ten (in Argentina) with Bradl seventh and Bautista tenth across the wire.

This is an encouraging start for the Aprilia Racing Team Gresini as they will now take on the COTA - Circuit of the Americas - seeking important confirmation.
 
ROMANO ALBESIANO - APRILIA RACING MANAGER
"We are coming from a race where we skilfully managed a complicated situation, finishing with an encouraging overall result that could have been even better. In any case, this does not distract us from our main objective which, in this first part of the season, is still to develop and to get in as many kilometres as possible. In Texas we will continue to follow our testing schedule. We have identified a few good solutions, especially where electronics are concerned, but we have also found a few factors that limit our performance where we need work, in particular a vibration at the rear that keeps us from being 100% incisive. The track in Texas is a complex one that puts various characteristics of the bike to the test, so it is a good test bench for us".

FAUSTO GRESINI - TEAM MANAGER
"Despite some difficult conditions, in Argentina we brought home a positive result. Let's not forget that the new RS-GP has barely a thousand kilometres behind it and obviously there is still a lot that needs to be developed. The project started off well and finishing the race with both bikes in Argentina as a team along with other riders allowed us to collect important information and see more clearly which direction to take. Now we are preparing for the Austin round that will finish out the first phase of the championship, with three non-European races that are traditionally the toughest".

ALVARO BAUTISTA
“We are headed to a track that is new for us, very different than Qatar and Argentina. There are a lot of tight turns, a lot of acceleration points, a long straight stretch and a few changes in slope. It is a rather complete track where we'll be able to see how the new Aprilia reacts. We are in a good period where performance in the last race was positive, especially in the first part of the race where I was competitive against much more experienced bikes. The pace we demonstrated makes us confident, although we are still not at 100%. Our goal is still to get as many laps in as possible in order to gather information and get to know the new bike better. It would also be nice to earn a few more important points before heading back to Europe”.

STEFAN BRADL
“The result at Termas gives us great motivation. Austin is completely different. The layout of the track is quite demanding in terms of setup. As always, we will try to improve session after session. I must say that I like the track and that I've had good results in Texas before. We'll see how my Aprilia performs here. For us every race is a début and it gives us the chance to discover knew characteristics of the 2016 bike. The growth trend is encouraging and we need to keep going in this direction”.