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Eric Brandon Don Branson Tom Bridger Tony Brise

The ride out is all about raising funds for the NI Children?s Hospice and last year motorcyclists and the club raised over £10,000.

The run has been growing steadily over the years and hopefully this year will be no exception.

There will be an outside broadcast unit from the U105 road show U105 hosted by George Jones.

Everybody is welcome to arrive from 9am onwards as this year there will be more of a festival atmosphere associated with the event.

As usual the highlight of the day will be the arrival of the kids and their families on the Trikes from the Brothers of the Third Wheel with the added edition of none other than ?Norn Iron?s? very own May McFetridge.

In addition there will be an appearance by the Star Wars characters from the Emerald Garrison.

Donation £5 per bike minimum and if you can?t make it on the day you can donate at Just Giving – http://www.justgiving.com/QVMCC-Hospice2011

The run will be leaving Carrickfergus Harbour Car Park at 1pm.

For further information or contacts visit the Quay Vipers MCC website – www.quayvipersmcc.com

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Toni Branca Gianfranco Brancatelli Eric Brandon Don Branson

Want to get your hands on a pair of NW200 grandstand tickets, and a case of Relentless Energy Drink? It’s competition time with Relentless Energy Drink who are as we all know, or should know by now, sponsors of the International NW200.

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Walt Brown Warwick Brown Adolf Brudes Martin Brundle

With almost everyone at Sepang improving their times on the second day of the MotoGP test, it is once again worth comparing times with test times from the same test last year. Below is both a list containing the full ranking, including times from the second day of the 2011 test at Sepang and the second day of the 2012 Sepang test, and a list showing the amount by which each of the riders have improved.

The improvement for each rider makes for interesting reading. The most obvious detail is that the riders who have improved the most are riders who were rookies last year. Cal Crutchlow is nearly a second and a half faster than he was at the same time last year, while Karel Abraham has posted a very respectable improvement of over eight tenths. The other thing that is immediately clear is how badly Toni Elias struggled on the Honda – or rather, on the Bridgestone tires – last year: Stefan Bradl is over 1.6 seconds faster than Elias was at the test last year. Bradl's adapation period has been fast, the German getting up to speed quickly, but most of all, the number illustrates Elias' plight in 2011.

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Bob Anderson Conny Andersson Mario Andretti Michael Andretti

A complete listing of all Irish Real Road Racing 2012 Dates plus all Irish Shorth Circuit 2012 Dates for your diary. Any changes will be updated when made available. Further information may or not be available by contacting the MCUI-UC although don’t blame moi if your request is ignored. On the other hand, it’s probably just information requests from moi that are being ignored. Can’t really imagine why!

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Peter Ashdown Ian Ashley Gerry Ashmore Bill Aston

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Vittorio Brambilla Toni Branca Gianfranco Brancatelli Eric Brandon

The MotoGP bikes are finally back on track – though it took a little longer than expected, after an overnight rain shower left the track damp in the morning. Much had been expected of this test, and it has delivered already, after just a single day. In fact the test has been almost perfect, real bikes running on a circuit putting an end to the intrigue and subterfuge that play such a major role in every winter break, whilst raising enough new questions to pique the interest of anyone with a passion for motorcycle racing.

The overnight rain made conditions far from ideal, a fact reflected by the fact that in the main, there was little difference in times between the first day of the 2012 test and the first day of the same test last year, despite the bikes having grown in capacity by 200cc. The extra power was all too evident around the track: controlling wheelies while retaining drive out of corners is going to be key this year, and while the extra torque makes the bigger bikes easier to control, and reduces some of the electronics needed, the resources spent on taming a highly-strung 800cc engine have now been diverted to keeping the front wheel of the fire-breathing 1000s within a parsec or two of the tarmac.

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Andrea de Adamich Philippe Adams Walt Ader Kurt Adolff

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Peter Collins Bernard Collomb Alberto Colombo Erik Comas

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Michael Bleekemolen Alex Blignaut Trevor Blokdyk Mark Blundell

With the excitement of MotoGP bikes being back on track subsiding to more manageable levels, the riders and teams were back hard at work again on Wednesday. The track had improved sufficiently to see times start to drop to where they might reasonably be expected to be. At Mugello in July of last year, Ducati Corse boss Filippo Preziosi had told the press that the simulations Ducati had run comparing their 1000cc bike – now radically changed since then – to the 800 showed that the 1000s should be about half a second faster round Mugello than the 800s, and that prediction proved to be just about spot on at Sepang.

The name of the rider at the top of the timesheet should surprise no one, Casey Stoner returning from a back problem – though still clearly stiff and not back to full strength – to post a scorching lap time, clear of the two Yamahas of Ben Spies and Jorge Lorenzo. Stoner did only a relatively few laps on the RC213V, concentrating on getting the parts tested he had on his work list, rather than working on a setup for the 2012 season. He compared the two chassis he had been given – and asked for the best parts of both chassis again, unsurprisingly – and concentrated on the big stuff.

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Ettore Chimeri Louis Chiron Joie Chitwood Bob Christie