Motor Cycle News

Yeah.

So yeah, I won my MCN job.

Yeah.

I'm not there now

And it was 2000, summer of 2002.

Yeah.

MCN wanted a new road tester.

Yeah.

[laughs]

And, um, uh, he was known when he, in Britain certainly in MCN and other, um, journals, uh, as Super Brat.

And my job was to, um-

To, to un-brat him

But when you run into a Marky Walberg situation where they've got, you know, $20 million, $40 million worth of flooring happening all at the same time, yeah, it takes you, like, one second to go from being in business to being out of business and in receivership, and it happens fucking fast.

So bad that on this one, this is Motorcycle News, British publication, it's literally saying, "Anyone who believes they have a claim can submit it through the IPS creditor's portal at ips.com", and they're literally giving you the link and a phone number.

So if you are one of those poor bastards who has your motorcycle at the shop or paid them for a motorcycle you weren't able to take delivery on before they locked the doors, that at least MCN is giving you a number to reach out to so you can get to become part of that operation and maybe get some of your money back.

This sucks.

It has 1,000 cc, 135 horsepower.

It is a legend, and MCN owners rate the reliability for all of that power and performance Classic Honda reliability, 4.7 out of 5.

Very, very close to faultless reliability.

MCN, as they so often do, they sum it up brilliantly.

Listen to this.

The sports-touring Honda CBR1000F was always in the shadow of more exciting motorcycles, yet had a decade-long production run.

But, but the Honda CBR1000F is so bland, it makes Katie Melua look like a brazen rock chick.

Okay.

So that was the end of the 90s and we were all amazed by fuel-injected 600s.

That was the MCN period or when was.

No, that was, uh, I was working for like a, uh, a national newspaper.

So I did a little bit for those first.

What is this wizardry? So it all kind of changed.

And then, yeah.

And then to fast bikes, it's kind of end of a 405 to MCN.

Okay.

But you'll find your local bike caf.

And actually, the MCN, again, another medium which is not common for young kids, but it's a newspaper, which was a big bit of paper with stuff printed on it.

It's like the internet, but printed out, and it doesn't change, and you can't zoom in.

Can't zoom in.