Mikko Nieminen

Day Ride: Chalk Country

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Mikko Nieminen

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6th December 2018

Embarking on a 120-ish mile jaunt around Wiltshire — with Salisbury Plain, stone circles and tanks carrying L-plates. I love chalk. Not the school blackboard variety, but the landscapes produced by this great swathe of ancient limestone that sweeps right across southern England. Find the right A and B roads, and you’ll be sharing these…
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New Speed Twin from Triumph

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Mikko Nieminen

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5th December 2018

Triumph has announced that it’s bringing the Speed Twin back in the Bonneville line-up with an all-new 2019 model. The new Speed Twin looks very much like the popular Street Twin’s big sister: more power, more tech and more premium packaging. For power, it uses an updated 1200cc Bonneville twin engine with ‘Thruxton’ tune, pumping…
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Knowledge: Dancing with the Italian Stallion

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Mikko Nieminen

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3rd December 2018

Taking a big adventure bike off-road requires nerves of steel and solid riding technique. We teamed up with Ducati’s travelling DRE Enduro experience to get in shape for the challenge… The thought of taking a £17,000 adventure bike off-road may seem more than a little daunting to most of us, despite the go-anywhere attitude of…
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Tried & Tested: Absaar mini jump starter and power pack

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Mikko Nieminen

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29th November 2018

Tested by: Mikko Nieminen|£59.95|www.absaar.co.uk When I first saw the new Absaar mini jump starter and power pack, I couldn’t believe that this tiny box (not much bigger than my phone) could provide enough power to jump start a bike. However, as the owner of a 2005 Yamaha Fazer FZS1000 with the original battery still in…
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Tried & Tested: Knox Leonard jacket and Urbane armoured shirt

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Mikko Nieminen

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26th November 2018

Tested by: Peter Henshaw|£2499.99 and £139.99|www.planet-knox.com Knox offers a whole range of motorcycle clothing based on its layering system – armour is worn in a separate garment underneath an outer jacket, which can then be worn on its own when off the bike. Knox reckons the armour is better able to do its job when…
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Tried & Tested: Givi V56N Maxia 4 top case

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Mikko Nieminen

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22nd November 2018

Tested by: Nikko Nieminen|From £258.78|www.givi.co.uk I don’t think I’ve been without a Givi top case at any point in at least five years now. The first one I got was the Givi E45 Monokey, and it came into my life on a ratty old Fazer 600 that I bought on eBay. The bike was sold…
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Tried & Tested: Touratech Aventuro Mod helmet

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Mikko Nieminen

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19th November 2018

Tested by: Nikko Nieminen|£499|www.touratech.co.uk I like a helmet that works for more than just one type of riding, and the Touratech Aventuro Mod certainly fits that bill: it’s a flip-front, touring and adventure helmet all in one. If you think that it looks a lot like the Schuberth E1, then you’re on the right tracks…
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Long Ride: High on Altitude

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Mikko Nieminen

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15th November 2018

Himalayan passes by Enfield Bullet – landslides, altitude sickness and not a lot of road. This ride was the hardest, most fantastic and rewarding thing I have ever done. Twenty-one riders on 16 bikes left Vashisht, a hill village in Himachal Pradesh, north India. There were three couples (I admired the pillion wives for their…
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MSL January 2019 out now!

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Mikko Nieminen

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12th November 2018

The latest issue of Motorcycle Sport & Leisure is out now!
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Mid Ride: Double Crunch

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Mikko Nieminen

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12th November 2018

This month, a UK Mid Ride, around the coast of Britain by Triumphs – what could possibly go wrong? Father and son, two weeks’ holiday in June, a brace of Triumphs (Street Triple and Bonneville) – what else could we do but a mega-ride around the UK (anti-clockwise)? We’d hug the shore as much as…
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