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MotoGP bosses appoint bodyguards to Jorge Lorenzo and Marc Marquez for this weekend’s Mugello round
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MotoGP bosses appoint bodyguards to Jorge Lorenzo and Marc Marquez for this weekend’s Mugello round. MotoGP bosses at Dorna have laid on bodyguards to look after Jorge Lorenzo and Marc Marquez at this weekend’s race event at Mugello, Italy. The move comes after last year’s championship round and the aggressive outpouring from some sectors of…
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Google patents ‘sticky bonnet’ solution for driverless cars hitting pedestrians (and bikers, we assume)
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Check out this new patent from Google (and no, we’re not making this up) for a semi-collapsing front end of a car that’s covered in super sticky glue. The idea is that when the firm’s driverless cars have an incident with pedestrians, wildlife, cyclists or motorcyclists (we assume) the front end of the car…
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Guy Martin’s new SPEED challenge – human-powered blimp across the channel…
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If you’re missing your Guy Martin fix then here’s a behind-the-scenes picture that should have you smiling. This shot was snapped during filming for the upcoming third series of SPEED with the Lincolnshire man. That’s Guy with his back to the camera in the standard bobble hat. The series will be shown later in the…
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MotoGP Preview: Why Mugello could end up being the Race of the Year (and then some)
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MotoGP Preview: Why Mugello could end up being the Race of the Year (and then some). If the events of the past week have shown us anything it’s that this weekend’s round of the MotoGP championship could be the best ever – and possibly the first premier class race in the championship where we end…
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Video: Rossi meets the Yamaha Motobot!
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It’s the first time that the nine-times world champion has met his electronic counterpart – and it’s all a bit weird. This video has been released by Yamaha and shows the man who’s staying with Yamaha in MotoGP for the 2017 and 2018 seasons having a bit of a poke and prod around the robot…
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Video: biker misses truck by inches – but bike gets mashed in head-on crash!
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Check out this amazing bit of video that’s appeared on the LIVE leak feed – it’s a biker who’s got to rate as one of the luckiest on the planet. Although the original footage appears to be from last December (you can see the origin’s date in the top right corner of the screen), this…
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Honda’s patent for air-conditioning on-bike system (yep)…
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OK, here’s a story from the ‘are you frickin’ serious?’ file – and we’re not saying that this is going to happen, but it might. But it probably won’t. Maybe. Anyway, this is it. It’s been reported in the southern hemipshere that Honda has filed patents for a new on-bike air conditioning system. Yep. Basically,…
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And here it is! Vinales CONFIRMED as Yamaha rider for 2017/18 alongside Rossi – Iannone switches to Suzuki
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Lovely stuff. As we outlined and dated a week ago. Here’s the announcement: Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd announce the signing of Maverick Viñales to ride for the Movistar Yamaha MotoGP team for 2017 and 2018. Viñales, who is presently fifth in the MotoGP Championship standings, will partner nin-time World Champion Valentino Rossi, whose contract…
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BSB Preview: Round three Brands Hatch
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By Philip Wain Christian Iddon leads the MCE Insurance British Superbike Championship into the third round of the season at Brands Hatch this weekend and the Tyco BMW rider knows he will have a fight on his hands in his quest to celebrate a debut race win in Kent. Iddon is the only rider to…
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Victory to race at this year’s TT! All-new bike AND William Dunlop riding it in the Zero TT race
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Victory Motorcycles is returning with the Victory Racing team to compete in the Isle of Man TT Zero race with an all-new electric race bike called the Victory RR. The Victory RR electric motorcycle has been developed over the past year using data gathered during last year’s TT Zero and will be ridden by…
