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Just added the following Wallpaper pic of the Royal Enfeld Trials EFi in the snow to our motorcycle wallpaper galleries, you can view all the Royal Enfield Motorcycle Wallpapers here.

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Jon Booth
Email: webmaster@inter-bike.co.uk
Blog: http://inter-bike.blogspot.com/
Swicki: http://motorcycling-swicki.eurekster.com/

Statistics released by the Motor Cycle Industry Association for the end of 2009 show an overall reduction in sales of 20%. Apparently there were 111,513 bikes, scooters and mopeds sold.

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Jon Booth
Email: webmaster@inter-bike.co.uk
Blog: http://inter-bike.blogspot.com/
Swicki: http://motorcycling-swicki.eurekster.com/

KYMCO have recently announced that their very cometitively priced Pulsar Base 125 motorcycle is available in the UK this month at the suggested retail price of only £1,399.

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Jon Booth
Email: webmaster@inter-bike.co.uk
Blog: http://inter-bike.blogspot.com/
Swicki: http://motorcycling-swicki.eurekster.com/

Despite the economic gloom, Triumph Motorcycles has bucked the trend, this iconic British motorcycle maufacturer has just announced it's UK 2009 sales figures and has increased sales in its home market by 26% in 2009, selling 7450 new motorcycles and overtaking Kawasaki to be the fourth largest big bike brand in the UK. All this despite the 20% drop in overall sales for 2009 in the UK motorcycle market.

Well done Triumph!

Jon Booth
Email: webmaster@inter-bike.co.uk
Blog: http://inter-bike.blogspot.com/
Swicki: http://motorcycling-swicki.eurekster.com/

Royal Enfield UK put out this excellent picture yesterday of their Royal Enfield Trials EFI in the snow near their premises in the Cotswolds, to promote the fact that the snow is no trial and they are open for business as usual.

Jon Booth
Email: webmaster@inter-bike.co.uk
Blog: http://inter-bike.blogspot.com/
Swicki: http://motorcycling-swicki.eurekster.com/

Did you realise that in the Chancellors recent pre-budget report road tax rates for motorcycles are set to increase this year. Motorcyclists are to be faced with a Vehicle Excise Duty increases of between 4% and 6% - and this at a time when the Consumer Prices Index is only 1.9%! Yet again motorcyclists are targeted, whereas the car industry gets money via the car scrappage scheme.

Help stop this further tax increase on motorcycling by signing up to the petition set up by the British Motorcyclists Federation on the No 10 website asking the Prime Minister to intervene and stop the increases.

The bmf are asking that in this an election year, all motorcyclists should sign-up to show the strength of feeling over motorcyclists and motorcycling being treated unfairly. The petitions says:

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to stop the increases in motorcycle tax proposed for 2010

Given that the motorcycle industry is facing some of its darkest days with sales slumping by around 25-30%, it makes no sense for any government to increase taxes on motorcycle ownership as is proposed in the Pre-Budget Report. We petition the government to support the motorcycle industry as it has the car industry and freeze or lower Vehicle Excise Duty and provide some other stimuli for the industry and not to attack it further by increasing the cost of ownership for law-abiding citizens.

The petition can be found at: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/motorcycleved/

Jon Booth
Email: webmaster@inter-bike.co.uk
Blog: http://inter-bike.blogspot.com/
Swicki: http://motorcycling-swicki.eurekster.com/

Sachs has announced an "RS" version of it's Speedjet sports scooter, equipped with black, white and red livery, red brake calipers and matching rear shock absorber, along with 10-spoke alloy wheels and lightweight alloy footplates and a new catalysed sports exhaust.

The Sachs Speedjet RS is due in UK showrooms from March 2010.

Jon Booth
Email: webmaster@inter-bike.co.uk
Blog: http://inter-bike.blogspot.com/
Swicki: http://motorcycling-swicki.eurekster.com/