KIWI RIDER OCTOBER 2017 VOL.2 | Page 9

LEARNER SURVIVAL GUIDE Riding bikes is awesome. Eating tar-seal followed by hospital food? Not so much. This is our guide to staying alive in your first year of motorcycling...  STREET III 765 RS 40th Tarawera 100 The annual Honda Tarawera 100 XC marathon has just hit the grand old age of 40. Cody Cooper was the man left standing on the top step of the podium...  THE (ONCE) UBIQUITOUS MOTORCYCLE AND SIDECAR In 1935 a quarter of all motorcycles in Britain had sidecars attached to them. Younger generations will probably regard sidecars as a relic from a bygone era… ALPINESTARS TECH7 BOOTS They’re not the most flash boots in Alpinestars’ range and they’re not the most expensive... but the Tech7 boots are tester Jock McLauchlan’s go to...  NO ROOM FOR F1-STYLE HEALTH AND SAFETY... Team principal of the Red Bull Racing team Christian Horner came up with a great line the other night on one of those F1 shows. “It is  just bananas,”...     KIWI RIDER 9