Tony Carter
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Honda’s new sport headlight revealed for 2017 bike
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Honda has filed another patent, but this time its for a specific part of an upcoming model – and this one is sporty. The patent illustration is a very finished design for a headlight unit that looks pretty similar to the one bolted into the CBR250RR concept motorcycle shown at last October’s Tokyo Motor…
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Glorious new images of the Husqvarna 2017 cafe racer emerge. VERY pretty stuff!
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It was on October 5 last year that we brought you the exclusive quote from one of two managing directors of Husqvarna, Reinhold Zens that: “I can tell you that they will come as 2017 models,” – he was talking about the Svartpilen and Vitpilen cafe racer and scrambler models – and so here we…
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Exclusive: New Honda mini-Africa Twin for 2017 (official drawings)
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At last year’s Tokyo Motor Show Honda revealed a ‘concept’ CRF250 Rally, the small capacity Africa Twin, based on the current CRF250L. According to Honda this was just a concept, not planned for production at the time, but it was pretty clear from the start that this was always going to be a part of…
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Honda’s new Gold Wing REVEALED. DCT, rider tech and more mpg coming. OFFICIAL drawings for next gen bike
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Honda’s new Gold Wing REVEALED. DCT, rider tech and more mpg coming. OFFICIAL drawings for next gen bike. Honda’s Gold Wing may have a few weird and whacky ideas pending in its future, but for the next phase of the massive mile-eater the big bike is getting a host of tech to make thing much…
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Video: Riding the 3D printed motorcycle (The Gadget Show’s film)
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Here’s a decent bit of video from the latest edition of The Gadget Show, channel five’s nerdfest (which we never miss). This week, ageing Lex Luthor lookalike Jason Bradbury (who we also like) takes to the road in Italy on the Ego electric bike. It’s not much of a test of the bike to be…
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Victory enters two bikes for Pikes Peak 2016 – the 156 and the electric Empulse
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Victory enters two bikes for Pikes Peak 2016 – the 156 and the electric Empulse. The Project 156 prototype bike will be ridden by 2014 Pikes Peak Heavyweight Champion Jeremy Toye and the Empulse RR electric prototype (raced in last year’s TT Zero at the Isle of Man) will be ridden by Cycle World’s…
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Mahindra reveals new concepts with Mojo
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Indian automotive company Mahindra has followed the launch of its base-model Mojo with a couple of interesting concept bikes. Both bikes use the standard Mojo 295cc, liquid-cooled, four-stroke, single cylinder engine and chassis as a base to build on, but the bikes look nothing like each other. The first one is an urban-cool scrambler that…
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Ducati MotoGP boss: Iannone’s continuing errors will NOT factor in wishlist for Lorenzo
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As you might imagine given the coming together between Iannone and Dovizioso, some Italian press were hot for chasing down Paolo Ciabatti and seeing if Iannone’s second big error in as many MotoGP races would help or hinder the much-rumoured pursuance of Jorge Lorenzo by the Ducati team. Currently, Yamaha has offered Lorenzo a…
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Ducati’s MotoGP implosion – how the Italian press sees it…
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The Italian press is – as you might expect – raging about what happened between Iannone and Dovizioso in the final set of corners at the Argentian GP. Motociclismo is calling the coming together of the Ducati pair, which left both on the deck and allowed Rossi to effectively cruise to a comfortable second…
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Honda’s thinking ‘haptic’ motorcycle danger feedback designs break cover
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Honda’s thinking ‘haptic’ motorcycle danger feedback designs break cover. Hot news from the USA where the guys at motorcycle.com have uncovered these patent drawings for a blind-spot monitoring system from Honda which will go on the company’s bikes. In a report by Dennis Chung, the patent drawings are clearly shown and will work as a…
