Tony Carter
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Preview: World Superbikes round five – Imola
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Preview: World Superbikes round five – Imola. Everything happening during the Motul Italian Round, on the track and at the circuit this weekend. It’s a guide. Beginning on Thursday (tomorrow) with a pre-event and the Open Paddock, the track action gets underway on Friday to kick off a weekend of on-track thrills and off-track entertainment.…
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Preview: British Superbikes round two – Oulton Park
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Preview: British Superbikes round two – Oulton Park. By Philip Wain The 2016 MCE British Superbike Championship heads to Oulton Park this weekend for round two and after an intriguing season opener at Silverstone three weeks ago, predicting an outcome is anyone’s guess. Shane ‘Shakey’ Byrne (pictured above) currently leads the standings after a…
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Meet the all-paper classic Honda Monkey Bike kit you can own for £20-ish!
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If you’ve ever fancied an iconic Honda Monkey Bike then you can buy one for a little over £20 straight from Japan – yep, it’s paper and you have to make the model yourself, but it looks great! The UK price comes in at £21.56 and the kit is made by a company called Uplift…
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Indian riders get huge sunscreens put up at junctions to save them from the baking sun
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How about this for a feelgood biking story then? Officials in Nagpur, India noticed that motorcycle riders were getting too hot when waiting at junctions for a gap in the traffic during the nearly 40 degree heat in the midday sun (wow). So, to give the riders a helping hand, the powers that be decided…
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KTM announces official range of PowerParts for awesome 690 singles
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The model year 2016 KTM 690 Duke and 690 Duke R are the most powerful and technically advanced single-cylinder machines available. Although they boast a long list of new features and refinements, KTM knows its riders still need to modify their bikes and so a diverse range of official PowerParts are available. Both new Duke models –…
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Yard Built Heads to Turkey for a Tracker Style XSR700 by Bunker Custom Motorcycles
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With spring well and truly underway Yamaha heads to Istanbul in Turkey to collaborate with a new member of the Yard Built family, Bunker Custom Motorcycles. Brothers, Can and Mert Uzer are not your typical custom bike builders. Can is a top level skateboarder with the Vans Turkey Skateboarding Team, while Mert recently gave…
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Zenith reached: once this happens it’s game over for the hipster bikers, surely?
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OK, maybe the custom-thing isn’t actually over as such – but we’re all a bit open-jawed having seen these pictures. This was a 1996 Honda XR650L that’s been given a, quote: “More rugged and ready-for-anything aesthetic”. Umm… OK. It looks quite ridiculous to us, but someone out there loves it enough to have it built…
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Sheene’s Daytona lid sells for £15,625 at auction – Guy Martin’s Blade goes for £14,720
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Barry Sheene’s helmet – the smashed up one he fell in whilst testing at Daytona in 1975 – sold for £15,625 at the Bonhams auction at the weekend. Bearing Sheene’s iconic black and gold paintjob and featuring the the famous Donald Duck emblem the helmet was one used by Sheene across the 1974 and 1975…
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Podcast: Exclusive interview with Mason Law
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In association with Kawasaki. Mason Law is the hottest, newest property in the British Supersport Championship for 2016. We caught up with the Gearlink Kawasaki star to go through everything in his racing head at the start of the season.
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Video: Brilliant drifting on a 50cc bike with plastic-coated rear tyre and loonie on board
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Check this amazing video out of a genuinely-lovable biking nutter and his mates having a laugh with a 50cc bike and plastic-covered rear tyre. There’s not that much more that we can say about this other than it’s REALLY made us laugh today and it’s just joyous. We’ve got two videos for you here –…
