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Londoners: free motorcycle wash!

London-based motorcycle dealer, Motoden, are running a Suzuki test-ride event this weekend and are offering FREE motorcycle cleaning and FREE coffee. Book your slot by calling Tim on 0207 241 6363 and mention Visordown. You'll get yourself a test ride on a gleaming brand-new fancy Suzuki while some poor sod cleans your filthy, dry-chained, bald-tyred, hanging excuse for a motorcycle.

Suzuki Developing 1000cc Prototype – MotoGP Return in 2014 Still Possible

The first MotoGP pre-season test at Mayalsia’s Sepang circuit is complete, with Ducati, Honda and Yamaha‘s factory and satellite teams, as well as a handful of CRT entries, collecting data for the next stage of their race prototypes’ development. Absent from testing was Suzuki which announced last November it was leaving MotoGP racing. Suzuki cited the recession, the rising value of the Japanese yen and the natural disasters afflicting Japan in 2011 as reasons for leaving MotoGP, but the manufacturer did say it intended to return in 2014.

Knee-high land-speed record device

This mad looking motorcycle is a land speed record device that never turned a wheel in anger. It was built by the infamous Dave Manning in 1968 using a discarded drop tank from a Korean fighter plane. Manning built a space-frame chassis inside the tiny teardrop and also managed to find room for a Suzuki T500 twin cylinder two-stroke motor.