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Richard Hammond latest: ‘I’ve checked and I’m not dead’
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The Grand Tour presenter has confirmed that he’s OK after being reportedly hurt during a motorbike crash in a remote part of Mozambique – he was knocked out in the crash whilst filming and miles from medical help. Thankfully, the latest news from Hammond himself is that he’s OK after his fall. Putting out a…
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Lorenzo launches attack on Rossi and Yamaha
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Jorge Lorenzo has opened up about his time at Yamaha in a wide-swinging interview where the Majorcan claims that he wasn’t treated as well as teammate Valentino Rossi. In the quite astonishing interview for the website Marca the Ducati rider spoke about his former relationship with Rossi when the pair were racing for the Japanese factory: “Yamaha…
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Indian storms to first and second in the American Flat Track season opener
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After a 63-year hiatus Indian has marked its first full season return to the American Flat Track with a 1st and 2nd place on the Scout FTR750. “You don’t know how special it is to win the first Daytona TT on the Indian,” said Rider Jared Mees (above). “I’m so excited just for…
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Ducati turnover and sales continue to grow
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The year’s financial data presented at the AUDI AG annual press conference 55,451 motorcycles sold and €731 million turnover for Ducati in 2016 Claudio Domenicali, CEO of Ducati Motor Holding: “Solid growth once again demonstrates the effectiveness of our strategy” 2016 was another positive year for Ducati according to figures released by the Italian motorcycle giant.…
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Watch every video from Rhys Lawrey’s epic global journey on a Triumph Tiger
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You may remember that we brought you the video diaries of Rhys Lawrey’s record-breaking round the world adventure with Triumph as the attempt was happening. Well, you can now re-live and re-watch the amazing journey on YouTube, where the young motorcycle traveler is releasing a videos covering different stages of his trip every Tuesday. Rhys…
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Launch ride: 2017 KTM 1290 Super Adventure S
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The 1290 Super Adventure S is a hybrid. KTM has taken the more compact form of the 1190 Adventure, filled it with the 1290’s, 1301cc 158bhp motor, and reduced the tank size from 30 to 23 litres. And then it dropped the 1190 from the range. The rethink makes sense – the £10,999 1050 was…
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Africa Twin breaks altitude riding record for twin-cylinder bikes by riding up a volcano to 19,570ft!
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Honda’s Africa Twin has reached new heights (guffaw) by breaking the record for the highest altitude reached by a twin-cylinder motorcycle. The scene of the record was the world’s highest active volcano, the Nevado Ojos del Salado – situated between Argentina and Chile – on which a team of five riders rode the Africa…
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Video: Beardie plays the violin. Marquez and Pedrosa do some skids.
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Err… what on earth is going on here? With the MotoGP season around the corner Honda’s released this ‘Sum of of talents’ video that shows a violinist in a warehouse with Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa. Yeah. It’s as odd as it sounds. And the beardie dude flick a visor down with the end of…
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KTM CONFIRMS production, fuel-injected 2-stroke enduro bikes being launched this MAY!
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The KTM 250 EXC TPI and KTM 300 EXC TPI models will be introduced to the market as part of the model year 2018 line-up. KTM has said that it will unveil the world’s first production fuel injection 2-stroke Enduro bikes at an official launch in just two months. We’ve told you many times before that KTM’s…
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Gorgeous Ducati roadbike V4 CGI Mac-up appears in Japan
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A while ago we were the first to bring you the news that Ducati’s boss, Claudio Domenicali had confirmed that the Italian factory is going to make a road-going version of its V4 MotoGP machine available to the public – and now our Japanese journalist friends have put together this piece of computer-generated gorgeousness on…
