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Video: Pannier-riding pillion styles it up in a Santa hat… nope, we don’t know why
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So this video has just popped up on YouTube. Nothing really to say about it other than it’s a guy wearing a Santa hat riding a bike. He’s riding it by squatting on top of a massive metal pannier set used to transport hot lunches around India. Not entirely sure how the throttle’s being kept…
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MotoGP test day two: Top three split by 0.1s, Vinales quickest
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The second day of testing in Qatar saw three manufacturers split by under 0.1s at the top of the timesheets with Maverick Viñales back to his best. Once again it was Hiroshi Aoyama and Michele Pirro who were the first out of the pits at the Qatar Test, the rest of the field beginning to…
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Gang arrested in hunt for stolen Padgetts motorcycle collection
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Police investigating the theft of new and vintage motorbikes worth an estimated £100,000 from Padgetts Motorcycles in Batley have made a series of arrests across Leeds. Padgetts was targeted by thieves and 20 new and vintage motorcycles were stolen between December 20 and January 4. Some of the stolen bikes were part of the company’s…
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Indian Motorcycles launches the new Springfield
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Indian Motorcycle has just launched the new Indian Springfield, featuring a removable quick-release windshield and hard, all-weather, remote-locking saddlebags. These clip-on touring features mean that the Springfield can be ridden as a fully-loaded tourer or stripped down into a cruiser by removing the windshield and saddlebags. The bike looks similar to the Indian Chief Vintage,…
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Image appears of what CB250X mini-Adventure bike will look like
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We brought you the news about a Honda CB250X mini-Crossrunner type of bike that a Honda boss had let slip about a few days ago and now this image has appeared. The emerging markets of Indonesia and Malaysia have been buzzing with the news that the little Adventure bike is on the way and…
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Behold! The 360 degree, spherical tyre of the future!
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So what do you think to this future-concept spherical 360 tyre from Goodyear? This idea, called the Eagle-360, has been debuted at the Geneva Motor Show and although it looks largely like one of those wishful-thinking projects it does throw up a couple of ideas that are incredibly interesting for our next-generation rubber interaction. In…
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Marquez: “Things are a bit tough!”
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Marquez: “Things are a bit tough!” Marc Marquez admits he is struggling on corner exit as he ended the first day of the Qatar Test in tenth, over a second off the pace. Marquez headed out at half past five, and ended his work with one hour to go in the session, when temperatures began…
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SCOOP: Suzuki patents for hydrogen-powered fuel cell super scoot revealed
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SCOOP: Suzuki patents for hydrogen-powered fuel cell super scoot revealed. Suzuki has now published patents that it has filed for its first road-legal hydrogen-powered fuel-cell super scooter. This is a significant move from the Japanese factory which has been working on the technology for a few years now and has already shown its…
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Yamaha patents stop/start technology
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Yamaha patents stop/start technology. Yamaha has filed a patent for an auto-stop scooter. The design is not model specific but a patent at this stage usually means that the technology will be included on a current model for the following year’s run – so expect this to be included in some 2017 model. Yamaha is…
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MotoGP at Losail – Honda, Yamaha and Ducati all run their fairing ‘wings’ testing programme
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MotoGP at Losail – Honda, Yamaha and Ducati all run their fairing ‘wings’ testing programme. Honda joined the MotoGP wing party when it went out for part of the first day of testing at Losail, Qatar in the MotoGP tests with winglets on the factory MotoGP machine. Following in the testing wake of Yamaha…
