Tony Carter
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Gorgeous new paint on MV Agusta F4RR
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Check out these new paintschemes on the MV Agusta F4RR – they’re gorgeous. There’s not much more to say other than these schemes are part of a limited range of the RR which are effectively WSB spec (almost) bikes with full-on factory Arrow pipes and the whole shebang. Lovely stuff.
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SCOOP: Side on image of 2016 GSX-R1000R from Japanese journos
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We’ve been sent this – OK, not that good quality, but it’s the inside pages of that Suzuki GSX-R1000R article by Young Machine in Japan. Now, these are the Japanese journos and test riders who have a finger right on the pulse of Suzuki’s going on and this is what they say the new…
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Erik Buell Racing ‘acquired’ by Indian company Hero for $2.8m
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The ongoing saga of Erik Buell Racing continues with news that the Hero MotoCorp Ltd (HMCL) filing with the Bombay Stock Exchange that it has agreed a settlement with Erik Buell Racing which has the American segment of HMCL acquire a ‘project’ from EBR for a fee of $2.8 million. Buell had been working on…
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SCOOP: Indian to bring back the flat-tracker glory!
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Indian is building a pure-bred, road legal flat-track style motorcycle that will race on the Mile and Half Mile tracks in America by late 2016 or early 2017. There are no official sources to quite this claim from at the moment, but according to a flat-track source, Polaris Industries – the company that owns the…
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Video: Watch What Happens When You Grind Away a Motorcycle’s Engine
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Madrid ad agency espadaysantacruz put together a very slick film for 3M to show off 3M’s new class of Cubitron II abrasives. Setting up timelapse cameras, the team built a machine to grind away a motorcycle’s engine, one layer at a time. It’s essentially a real-world cutaway illustration, done millimeter by millimeter. Watch the whole thing below, and check out some of…
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VIDEO: BMW S1000RR big screen action from M:I film. Uber cool.
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That there new Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation film that’s out now (or soon, depending on where you are) has some real nice BMW S1000RR action in it. Here’s a rather jolly nice clip from the film that makes cool bikes look even cooler. Nicely done, Mr Cruise – you talented sod. https://youtu.be/ha-MGEXS81k
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SCOOP: Royal Enfield Himalayan pre-prod bikes spotted
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Yep, we quite like this too. These are the Royal Enfield Himalayan pre-production bikes out testing. Expect the bike late this year, to be revealed at the EICMA show. They won’t be fast, or tech-laden but we think that this might just neatly slot into the custom-retro-adventure world very nicely indeed.
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SCOOP: New GSX-R250! New GSX-R1000R! (possibly)
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Check this out! This is the cover of the next issue of Young Machine, a Japanese magazine that has – over the years- delivered some great first looks of the next gen models to come from Japan. And on this issue they have both the GSX-R250 (yeah, we think supercharged) and the GSX-R1000R – which…
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VIDEO: First Victory electric production bike (TT podium bike for the road)
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Victory has launched the Empulse TT, which is a production electric motorcycle built around the same platform as the Brammo TT bike that bagged a podium in this year’s TT Zero race. Heres’ what Victory is saying about the bike (basically, this is what you want to know about charge times, range etc): The Victory…
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FREE MoreBikes app now LIVE (and it’ll tell you everything about the new Africa Twin for FREE)
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The MoreBikes FREE weekly app is now out and it’s got all the details you need to know about the 2016 Honda Africa Twin, plus it’s got video of Valentino Rossi playing on bikes and shooting guns (BIG guns), a Kawasaki boss talking about next year’s secret ZX-10R replacement AND Keanu Reeves telling us…
