Tony Carter
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Take your Harley and quad it
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So you’ve had a Harley-Davidson for a while now… getting a bit bored of it, not entirely sure what to do with the bike. You’d fit a bit of aftermarket kit if it was pretty straightforward and made the bike look different – so what do you do? How about turning you Harley into…
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Genuine Honda Grand Prix two-stroke 500 sells for £32,200 at the Stafford Show
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Now that’s what you call a motorcycle and it was bought at the Bonhams’ auction during the Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Stafford Show at the weekend for a snip over £30k. The 1990 machine came complete with a factory Honda motor and hand-built aluminium chassis. And that sales price isn’t what you’d call pricey (if…
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Actor Gerard Butler in motorcycle smash
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News is coming in the Scottish actor Gerard Butler has been rushed to hospital after being run off the road by a car in Los Angeles. The star of the film 300 and Law Abiding Citizen movies has reportedly suffered ‘serious’ injuries and has been taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. The 46-year-old has…
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Meet Yamaha’s MOTOROiD concept. Funky stuff.
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WE’re rapidly heading towards this year’s Tokyo Motor Show and, as such, there’s a lovely glut of the weird and the wonderful starting to appear – and the Yamaha MOTOROiD concept looks absolutely top of the future-ideas. It’s one of those concept bikes that we’d like to have a ride on tomorrow, if we could. According…
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Interesting (lo-res) shot of 2018 Kawasaki Z900RS appears
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This really caught our collective eyes – it’s a somewhat blurry image (yeah) but it’s still right on the money for what promises to be an important motorcycle of next year. The excellent Aspahaltandrubber website has posted this – much better – look at the upcoming Z900RS from Kawasaki. The image looks pretty much…
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Video: Suzuki tests 2018 MotoGP chassis
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https://youtu.be/WYNXzJhycok Team Suzuki Racing has just published a new video with highlights from Team SUZUKI ECSTAR’s two-day test at Motorland Aragon in late September. Both Andrea Iannone and Alex Rins put in loads of laps during the extensive testing plan with new parts for the 2018 season, in particular a new chassis. So, effectively, this video…
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More pics of the 2018 Gold Wing
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The chaps at both Oliepiel and MaxxMoto have been grabbling a host of lo-res images of the upcoming Gold Wing from Honda (the one expected to be launched at EICMA in Milan early next month). It gives us a much better idea of how the bike is going to be in both usual, big-boy Wing…
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WSB: Camier switches to Honda for 2018
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Leon Camier has signed to switch to the Red Bull Honda World Superbike Team for 2018, taking on the MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship with the Dutch-based squad after three full seasons with MV Agusta. Currently sitting in eighth place in the world championship standings, the former BSB Champ has seen his season begin to improve…
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Nozane to replace Folger at Japanese Grand Prix
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Local hero Kohta Nozane will step in for the absent Jonas Folger (below) this weekend at the Motul Grand Prix of Japan. Folger will fly home today in order to undertake more medical checks and his seat will be filled by Nozane, who made his Grand Prix debut as a 16-year-old in the 2012 Japanese Moto2 race as a wildcard. He won…
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Video: Honda Neo Sports Cafe teaser shows bits of things to come
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Honda is upping the tease-video game nicely ahead of the Tokyo Motor Show at the end of the month with a nice pointer towards something cafe racer on the way. This video (below) is the latest from the Honda Neo Sports Cafe (yeah, that’s the name – we like it) and is clearly sticking to…
