Tony Carter
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Spy shots! Husky Vitpilen cafe racer snapped out in first tests on the road!
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Here are spy pictures of the Husqvarna Vitpilen cafe racer for the road as it’s put through its first set of road tests abroad. The bike is heavily drab with black bodywork and a temporary exhaust and silencer – the wheels are a far cry from the spoked versions (or the fatter-spoked mag arm wheels)…
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MotoGP: Suzuki’s new F1-style wings on the factory bikes and Aprilia gets Ducati-clone wings too!
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Two more teams have debuted racebikes in MotoGP with wings. The Spanish MotoGP round at Jerez happens this weekend and the Suzuki’s of Maverick Vinales and Aleix Espargaro have turned up with this (very F1 front wing stylee) winged fairing: We like it. Not as aggressive as the Ducati wings and they look like being…
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Around the World on ‘connected’ Yamaha Super Ténéré
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Here’s something a bit different: Hugo Scagnetti, supported by Telefónica and Yamaha, will ride 23,000 miles around the world in 80 days. That in itself isn’t the news though. The twist in the story is that he will be travelling on a special Yamaha Super Ténéré XT1200Z, dubbed Globalrider, equipped with the latest technologies Telefónica…
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Michelin boss: MotoGP tyre tore itself apart because of A: the track, B: the temperature and C: Scott Redding’s weight
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Michelin Technical Director Nicolas Goubert has talked about the recent tyre issues in MotoGP. And he says that – in part – Scott Redding’s weight was something to do with the tyre tearing itself apart in Argentina. Talking about the tyre issues suffered at the Argy round, where Redding’s tyre was graphically destroyed at…
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Meet the official HRC Grom monkey bike racer that you can now buy
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Honda’s official racing company, HRC, has developed and put on sale a raft of tricked-up parts for the firm’s mini-bike, the Grom. A Grom in HRC colours with a couple of performance parts bolted to it is old news, but the fact that HRC has put on sale the host of hot-ticket options shows…
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Spada and Ron Haslam join forces
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Spada clothing has become the technical clothing partner to the UK’s premier motorcycle racing school, the Ron Haslam Race School, based at Donington Park circuit. The award winning Spada range is exclusively distributed by Feridax. Spada will be supplying exclusively made suits for the school based on their popular Curve Evo style race suit. The…
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See Guy Martin’s Wall of Death bike in the flesh at Stafford this weekend!
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The Rob North framed 750cc BSA Triple machine on which Guy Martin set a new world speed record on a Wall of Death, live on Channel 4 over the Easter break, will be at the 36th Carole Nash International Classic MotorCycle Show this weekend. The road racing, mountain biking, lorry mechanic blasted around the specially-built 37…
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Video: Chihuahua leads bike cop a merry chase across San Francisco’s Bay Bridge
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Here’s a video report of a chihuahua leading the San Francisco police on a chase across a major bridge. This is filmed from a police car involved in the not exactly speedy run out in San Francisco. We’re unsure about giving the dog the name Ponch… we love the CHiPs TV show. It kind of…
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Rumour? BMW to launch muscle cruiser rival to the Ducati XDiavel?
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German magazine Motorrad believes that BMW is building an XDiavel crusher – a muscle cruiser pared back to basics to try and take on the likes of the popular Italian model. It’s just a rumour at the moment – and there’s no solid leads on much of this (other than the rumour itself) – and…
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MotoGP: Rossi talks about Lorenzo – ‘I think that he will be competitive on the Ducati’
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Rossi’s pre-race press debrief at Jerez, Spain ahead of this weekend’s race was (as you might imagine) filled with questions about Jorge Lorenzo’s move to Ducati which was announced earlier this week. Rossi was asked about what the move would be like for Lorenzo, going from Yamaha to Ducati, given that it’s a move that…
