CFS Motor Racing (Promotions) is running as a totally non-profit making venture, aiming to give Craig Cook, our current British Number 2 to the World Champion, equipment for 2015 to take him towards World Champion status and the International/GP circuit.

They believe Craig has the potential to compete on the GP circuit and become a future World Champion.

Did you know, speedway riders receive no salary, no starting fee generally and earn by the points they score in racing... Only the top riders, sponsored say by Monster or other major sponsors, may get larger fees!

The aim is to sell 2,000 tickets for each brand new Quad bike at just £10 each. Profits go directly to helping purchase equipment required for each country in which Craig will ride. This Quad is 100% road legal and can be used on a full British car licence (DVLA registration required).

Buy 3 tickets and get the 4th free, giving you approx. a 1 in 500 chance of winning.

Call: 02392 570447 or 02392 595505 or 07989 535829 or e-mail: [email protected] NOW for tickets

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KICKBACK is packed with feature displays including: Harley Davidson plus Jumpstart bike, RedMax flat track zone, TV presenter Henry Cole and his fabulous Gladstone Motorcycles, 2Bros Stunt Show, World Champs Rocket Bobs Custom Cycles, Classic TT and Race bike paddock, The Chopper Club Zone, Streetfighter Zone, Michelin free tyre pressure service, café and bars, free on-site car park and bike parking right by main entrance!

PLUS…the organisers say there will be nearly 200 stunning custom motorbikes on show in the 5000m2 warehouse expo hall at KICKBACK’s Invitational Showcase at Donington Park. Here are just a few of the latest entries for the superb international indoor display:      

If you have a custom built motorbike and would like to have it displayed at the KICKBACK Invitational Showcase then please email a photograph of it to [email protected]

KICKBACK: The (4th National) Custom Motorcycle Show is to take place at Donington Park in Derbyshire from 20th - 21st September 2014.

KICKBACK is the UK’s most established and probably the biggest exhibition of its kind featuring over 200 of the finest custom built motorbikes most of which will be displayed along a vast 130 metre backdrop inside the main hall – an Invitational Showcase – other custom masterpieces will be presented on feature areas around the hall. KICKBACK is a fabulous celebration of British engineering excellence, where designers and builders unleash their imagination… a great day out for all motorcycle enthusiasts and of course the whole family!

All types of custom built masterpieces will be on show from old school choppers and bobbers to the new generation of café bikes, street scramblers, trackers and brats…there’s even a collection of customised scooters, mopeds and streetfighters. It’s more than a fantastic ‘static’ exhibition; many of the customs will be fired up and ridden in the parade area. And just in case that’s not enough, there will also be regular spectacular stunt shows headed up by World Record holder and current British ‘Stunt Bike’ Champion Mark van Driel and the ‘Two Brothers’ team! Harley Davidson will be there in force, and they will have their fantastic Jumpstart bike there for everyone to try out! Michelin will be there with their free tyre pressure service van.

There will be a superb collection of rare, classic TT and race bikes in the form of a 1970s style racing paddock. RedMax Speedshop will be putting on a fine flat track demo area. Plus The Chopper Club will be present with a superb display as well as a collection of awesome Streetfighters! There is free onsite car parking and bike parking right in front of the main entrance, so perfect chance to rock up on your bike and park up by doors!   KICKBACK: The Custom Motorcycle Show has relocated to Donington Park from Beaulieu where it was staged in 2012 and 2013.

Organiser Lorne Cheetham told us, “We’re delighted to be staging the show again this year, at such an iconic venue; we hope to have over 200 top-drawer customs on display. There will also be a chance for all visitors to not only SEE the bikes, but HEAR them as well! We have an area by the hall where we will be firing up some of the machines and indeed parading them around a small track!” Lorne also added, “We want the visitors to really enjoy their day out, and think that firing up and parading a selection of these stunning bikes will be great fun. There will be a gorgeous collection of period style choppers and bobbers as well as a massive celebration and acknowledgement of the ‘new generation’ of custom built bikes such as new wave café racers, street scramblers, trackers and brat style bikes.”  

Many exhibitors have already booked up including Robin Hood Harley Davidson, Michelin, Gladstone Motorcycles, Principal Insurance, Digital Speedos, Fat Skeleton, Rocket Bobs, Sickboyz Customs, Resurrection Motorcycles, Hard Up Choppers, Bike Dryers, Pigasso Art and many others plus at the time of writing over 100 stunning custom bikes are booked into the Invitational Showcase. The entry price is just £10 on the door for adults, children under 16 can get in for a fiver and under 5s go free. There is ample on-site free car parking and the price includes all features at the exhibition, plus the Invitational Showcase and the amazing Stunt Show! All visitors can also gain access to the superb Donington Park Motor Museum at a discounted price. Show opens on both days from 10.00am till 5.00.pm. If you would like to enter your stunning custom bike, or take a trade space or find out more about the show generally please visit

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The Motorcycle Industry Association (MCIA) is calling for the government to recognise the potential of electric motorcycles and ensure they are clearly listed as eligible for the latest round of government subsidy to stimulate the uptake of electric vehicles.

The Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) published a document at the end of April setting out the subsidy available for cars, but was not clear about whether motorcycles would be included.

The original proposals pledged to commit at least £200 million in the period 2015-2020, aimed primarily at cars stating that: ‘The current £5000 car grant incentive will remain in place…until 50,000 cars have been sold, or until 2017, whichever is the sooner’.

£30 million has been put aside for ‘other’ vehicles, of which electric motorcycles and scooters could potentially be included.

Steve Kenward, CEO of the MCIA says this would help stimulate the electric motorcycle market and work towards reducing traffic congestion: “Up to now subsidy has excluded powered two wheelers and centred on four wheel vehicles. We are asking for a level playing field, in order to help develop this sector and to make sure the charging infrastructure is in place to support it.  Motorcycles, scooters and mopeds also offer an additional opportunity to tackle congestion.  Electric cars won’t help cut traffic jams, but research shows that motorcycles will.*  You can buy an electric scooter from around £2000, which can be charged up easily at home and is therefore perfect for commuting. Motorcycles have many fleet applications too.  Police, paramedics, breakdown services and blood runners all use motorcycles when they need to cut through traffic and their riders are testament to the fact that motorcycles can and do play a valuable part in our society.”

A decision regarding motorcycles will be made within a few weeks.

Notes:

*Research from Europe shows that when just 10% of car drivers swap to a motorcycle, scooter or moped congestion is reduced by 40% for all road users.  When 25% swap – congestion is eliminated altogether.

You can read the research from Transport and Mobility Research Leuven here

The Motorcycle Industry Association has been representing the motorcycle industry for over 100 years and formed the Alternative Powered Motorcycle Industry Association (eMCI) in 2011.

The UK industry is valued at around £7billion (GHK study 2010).

Approximately 65,000 people are directly employed in over 6,000 related businesses (GHK study 2010).

ROBERTO COLANINNO: 30 WORLD TITLES WON IN LESS THAN 10 YEARS

Misano, 12 September 2014 – Aprilia (Piaggio Group) officially announced that they will enter the Grand Prix motorcycle racing in the MotoGP class. The Aprilia brand's return to the top world motorcycling competition will take place in 2015, a year ahead of their previously announced plans.

The intent of the Piaggio Group's strategy to commit the Aprilia brand in the MotoGP class is to favour a rapid growth of competitiveness, focusing all Aprilia Racing's technical and organisational efforts on developing prototypes. For this reason, Aprilia Racing will send its bikes onto the track supported by a cooperation agreement which has been reached with Gresini Racing.

This agreement will allow Aprilia Racing - a representative of Italian sport excellence and a protagonist in motorcycle racing on a global level - to take advantage of Gresini Racing's significant contribution in terms of MotoGP experience and know-how, enough to solidify the strategic decision to début already next season. This is a four year agreement, so Gresini Racing will be managing the Aprilia bikes on the track in MotoGP until the 2018 season. Aprilia racing is currently making assessments to determine which riders will take part in the MotoGP project.

“We decided to make our début a year earlier than planned because Aprilia Racing's technical and competitive skills are absolutely top notch” commented Piaggio Group's Chairman and CEO, Roberto Colaninno. “Growth in Superbike has been exemplary in this direction from our rookie year in 2009 to the five world titles we've won so far with the RSV4”. Aprilia's track record over the past decade has been extraordinary: “Piaggio Group has been managing Aprilia since 2005” Roberto Colaninno reminded us. “and in less than ten years Aprilia won 26 of the 52 world titles earned in the entire brand history. In addition to these there are also four more titles: Marco Simoncelli's 250 world championship with Gilera and three 125 class world championships won by Derbi, which is also part of the Piaggio Group and which took a very young Marc Marquez to his first world title win.”

Aprilia Racing boasts the most victorious European Racing Department in recent decades. It represents extraordinary Italian assets in technical skill which, in just over twenty years, has made the manufacturer from Noale a protagonist in all the most important motorcycle racing arenas, taking an impressive 52 world titles. The Aprilia trophy case currently includes 294 wins and 38 championship titles in the Grand Prix motorcycle racing championship (19 Manufacturer and 19 Rider), 45 wins and 5 world titles in WSBK (3 manufacturer and 2 Rider) and 9 world championships in off road disciplines.

Many recent protagonists in the motorcycle racing world have raced, won and been educated astride Aprilia bikes such as Max Biaggi, Loris Capirossi, Valentino Rossi, Marco Melandri, Manuel Poggiali, Jorge Lorenzo and Casey Stoner. And even Marc Marquez earned his first world title astride a Derbi 125, also a Piaggio Group brand, contributing to the 102 world titles that the Piaggio Group can boast in its own collection of wreaths, achieved not only by Aprilia but also by legendary brands such as Moto Guzzi, Gilera and Derbi.

Managed by two-time 125cc class world champion Fausto Gresini, Gresini Racing has been in Grand Prix motorcycle racing since 1997, achieving prestigious results: in addition to the two titles won in 2001 with Daijiro Kato (250cc) and in 2010 with Toni Elias (Moto2), the 40 wins and 114 podiums earned, there are also the MotoGP runner up titles achieved for three consecutive seasons in 2003 and 2004 with Sete Gibernau and in 2005 with Marco Melandri.

Gresini Racing has been home to top calibre champions such as Alex Barros, Loris Capirossi, Colin Edwards and Marco Simoncelli. The Gresini Racing organisation is currently involved in all the Grand Prix motorcycle racing classes. In fact, they are key players in the 2014 season with Alvaro Bautista and Scott Redding in MotoGP, Xavier Siméon and Lorenzo Baldassarri in Moto2 and with Niccolò Antonelli and Enea Bastianini in Moto3.

Eight-times TT winner Ian Hutchinson has joined the Penrith-based Paul Bird Motorsport Team in a deal which will see him compete for the remainder of 2014 in the team's Rapid Solicitors Kawasaki colours, as well as a full season in 2015.

35-year-old 'Hutchy', from Bingley in West Yorkshire, will contest the final two rounds of the Pirelli National Superstock 1000 Championship aboard the Rapid Solicitors Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R at Silverstone and Brands Hatch in October before competing at the Macau Grand Prix the month after.

The deal then extends into 2015, which will see a concerted factory-backed effort at the 2015 Isle of Man TT Races fuelled by Monster Energy as well the other two major road races - the North West 200 and Ulster Grand Prix with Supersport, Superstock and Superbike machinery.

In addition, Hutchinson will contest the opening three rounds of the 2015 MCE Insurance British Superbike Championship for one of Paul Bird's teams with a view to doing further rounds throughout the season.

The eight time TT Race winner, including his historic five in a week in 2010, also has wins at the North West 200, the Ulster Grand Prix as well as in the various support races to the British Superbike Championship over the past ten years.  Hutchinson also won the 2013 Macau Grand Prix.

Ian Hutchinson:

"I'm mega happy that Paul has offered me a deal for the remainder of this year and for 2015 also. I've ridden for the team before and we all know each other so to be joining them once again is brilliant. I was disappointed that this year didn't work out as I'd hoped, especially with having such high expectations but now I know I've got a real chance of success. The team is proven and hopefully I can get back to winning ways very soon." 

Paul Bird (Team Owner):

"We are all very excited to have Hutchy joining us and as soon as I knew he was out of a job, I wanted him to ride for us. He's a quality rider and you don't win five TTs in a week by chance. He'll ride our Superstocker for the final two rounds at BSB and then we'll decide what to put him out on at Macau. We might even try him on the MotoGP bike there! For 2015, we will have a proper attack on the roads, which will give him his best chance in recent years and we are really serious about winning. We'll do other selected races too as part of our expanded squad for 2015 so there are some exciting times ahead."