MCN or Motor Cycle News is a weekly motorcycling

Motorcycle

A motorcycle is a single-track, two-wheeled motor vehicle. Motorcycles vary considerably depending on the task for which they are designed, such as long distance travel, navigating congested urban traffic, cruising, sport and racing, or off-road conditions.Motorcycles are one of the most...

 newspaper

Newspaper

A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...

 published by Bauer Consumer Media

Bauer Verlagsgruppe

The Bauer Media Group is a large German publishing company based in Hamburg, which operates in 15 countries worldwide. Since the company was founded in 1875, it has been privately-owned and under management by the Bauer family. It was formerly called Heinrich Bauer Verlag KG, abbreviated to HBV...

, and based in Peterborough

Peterborough

Peterborough is a cathedral city and unitary authority area in the East of England, with an estimated population of in June 2007. For ceremonial purposes it is in the county of Cambridgeshire. Situated north of London, the city stands on the River Nene which flows into the North Sea...

, United Kingdom. The title was founded by Cyril Quantrill in 1955 and bought by EMAP

EMAP

Emap Limited is a British media company, specialising in the production of business-to-business magazines, and the organisation of business events and conferences...

, before Bauer bought Emap's consumer media division in 2008. Since launch, the brand has expanded to include the MCN website, MCN Mobile, iPhone app, the 'MCN Compare' Insurance Comparison service, MCN London and Scottish Motorcycle Show and the MCN Live! at Skegness

Skegness

Skegness is a seaside town and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. Located on the Lincolnshire coast of the North Sea, east of the city of Lincoln it has a total resident population of 18,910....

 party weekend.

In 2009, average weekly circulation was 114,304 copies according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations,
and 2010 it was 106,446 copies.

MCN Awards

MCN have been presenting an annual awards ceremony, almost since they were founded in 1956. These include the overall 'MCN Machine of the Year' award:

Year	Country	Bike	Notes
1968		Norton Commando Norton Commando The Norton Commando is a British motorcycle with an ohv pre-unit parallel twin engine, launched by the Norton Motorcycle company in 1967. Initially a nominal 750 cc displacement, actually , in 1973 it became an 850 cc, actually ....
1969		Norton Commando
1970		Norton Commando
1971		Norton Commando
1972		Norton Commando
1979		Triumph Bonneville T140 Triumph Bonneville T140 The Triumph Bonneville T140 is a British motorcycle with a capacity engine that was designed and built by Triumph Engineering at Meriden near Coventry....
1999		BMW K1200LT
2001		Ducati Multistrada Ducati Multistrada The Multistrada is a model of motorcycle introduced by Ducati in 2003. The word Multistrada is Italian for "many roads" as the bike is designed to handle asphalt as well as some unpaved surfaces. Essentially the bike is a hybrid of a supermoto and a sport touring motorcycle...
2002		Ducati 999 Ducati 999 The Ducati 999 superseded the Massimo Tamburini designed Ducati 916, Ducati 996 and Ducati 998 range of superbikes in 2003, and was produced through 2006...
2003		Honda CBR600RR Honda CBR600RR The Honda CBR600RR is a sport motorcycle that was introduced by Honda in 2003 as a race replica version of Honda's CBRFx series motorcycles. It won every Supersport World Championship title from 2002 to 2008.- Racing roots :...
2004		Triumph Rocket III Triumph Rocket III The Triumph Rocket III is a British three cylinder motorcycle made by the Hinckley Triumph factory and has the largest displacement engine of any mass production motorcycle , at ....
2005		Suzuki GSX-R1000 Suzuki GSX-R1000 The GSX-R1000 is a sport bike from Suzuki's GSX-R series of motorcycles. It was introduced in 2001 to replace the GSX-R1100 and is powered by a liquid-cooled inline four-cylinder, four-stroke engine.-2001:...
2006		Yamaha YZFR6R Yamaha YZF-R6 Yamaha's YZF-R6 is a 600 class sport bike motorcycle, first introduced in 1998, updated in 2001, 2003, 2006, 2008 and revised in the years in between.-History:...
2007		Ducati 1098 Ducati 1098 The Ducati 1098 is a sport bike manufactured by the Italian motorcycle company Ducati since 2007. There were three different versions, called the 1098, 1098S, and 1098R...
2008		Ducati Desmosedici RR Ducati Desmosedici RR The Ducati Desmosedici RR is a limited production road-legal version of the Desmosedici MotoGP racebike.Ducati made 1,500 Desmosedici models for public purchase. The bike was launched at the 2006 Italian MotoGP event...
2009		Yamaha R1
2010		BMW S1000RR BMW S1000RR The BMW S1000RR is a sport bike initially manufactured by BMW Motorrad to compete in the 2009 Superbike World Championship, that is now in commercial production...