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Carl Stevens
Fast Bikes
|November 2017
We're getting into October now and it already feels like 2018 is upon us! More and more boxes are arriving for next year’s steed, but until then I’ve been keeping myself busy in just about any way I can.
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We're getting into October now and it already feels like 2018 is upon us! More and more boxes are arriving for next year’s steed, but until then I’ve been keeping myself busy in just about any way I can. And by keeping myself busy, I actually mean that somehow I managed to blag myself into getting a KTM RC390 to ride in the RC Cup; the one-make series alongside the MCE British Superbike Championship. Now, I’m not going to go into too much detail as you’ll be able to read my story in full in a nice juicy feature I’m working on for a coming issue, but needless to say I had a right blast and was buzzing to be out on track. In all truth, going up against a load of nutty nippers was bloody hard work!
The racing was incredibly c
This story is from the November 2017 edition of Fast Bikes.
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