ON PRINCIPAL
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12 June 2026
Take it to the track
You might be a road legal rider, but are you the best road legal rider you can be?
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One way of polishing up your skills is to take to the track.
A day on the circuit can really help refine your handling techniques, teaching you plenty about your and your bike's limits, as Paul Browne enthusiastically reports. -
05 June 2026
Three’s company
Whilst a man whose head is typically turned by two-wheels, Paul Browne still has a place in his heart for a trike.
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That's no more true than when he's fluttering his eyelids at a factory-built Harley-Davidson. -
29 May 2026
Furygan’s second skin
He may have mentioned it before, but Paul Browne doesn't just want his sensitive and indeed less sensitive parts protecting, he wants to look good too.
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Luckily for him, Furygan exist.
Luckier still the French manufacturer has indulged him and us all with a snappy new suit, that protects both body and image.
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21 May 2026
Vespa hits 80
The post-war settlement and an economy in as much ruins as its former bomber plane factory meant Piaggio had to find a new way to make some lira.
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From such necessity, an icon was born: the Vespa.
The first 1946 two-stroke, signalled great things to come, with Vespa today sitting sitting pretty - very pretty - amidst the much wider Piaggio family.
Paul Browne tips his café cortado and ruffles his cravat in honour of the great Italian manufacturer as it marks its 80th birthday. -
14 May 2026
Knox takes it casual
As a specialist motorcycle insurance broker, we very much encourage you to invest in protective gear.
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We're less hung up on how cool, or indeed uncool, it makes you look.
However, apparently looking good and being protected are not mutually exclusive options, as Paul Browne reports.