Many of you will know that I produce a weekly motorcycle column usually called, predictably enough, Motorcycle Weekly, for some 100 newspapers around Australia.

Well, it used to be 100 newspapers. Now it’s more like 80, because Rural Press, one of the newspaper groups that used to run the column, has dropped it as a cost saving. This means that I will be drinking generic bourbon from now on, an unacceptable situation.

So what do I want you to do about this?

Well, if your local paper (be it the Wooglewomp Gazette or the Canberra Times) does not run the column, I’d like you to contact them and ask them to. It’s available from marque.com.au Automotive News Service, which is Australia's largest independent motoring news service. For over 50 years it has been providing high quality, independent and unbiased automotive news to newspapers in every Australian state as well as several overseas publications. And it distributes my column as well…

You can see how that’s going to help me.

How will it help you?

Well, you’ll be able to read somewhat different versions of the bike tests that appear in ARR and Cruiser, but much earlier!

And it costs you nothing…