Tony Carter
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It’s BACK! The Italjet Dragster is BACK! Oh, happy day! Get one, get one, get one.
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IT’S back! The hottest, coolest ever modern scooter is back! Italjet has brought back the only scooter to ever (really) appeal to big bike riders and youthful hooligans alike. Behold, the new Dragster. Isn’t it absolutely terrific? Built between 1998 and 2003, the original Dragster was churned out by the Italian factory with a combination…
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Video: Listen to the 2019 Ducati V4 R going round Mugello
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Look, it’s a promotional video so it’s more than a touch waffley-nonsense but what you do get to hear and see are a pair of Ducati V4 Rs pelting around Mugello. For that reason alone, it’s worth giving up 1m 56s of your time for. Safe for work, so if your workmates like hearing…
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VIDEO: Robbie Maddison rides on water again – this time commuting on Dutch canals
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Check out this video from Red Bull of professional dude Robbie Maddison taking to the water on his converted motocross bike once again. Previously, Maddison raced between the waves in an ocean, this time he’s upped the stakes a bit with various water-born blats along the watery ways of The Hague as a pre-runner…
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New front brakes and colours for the 2019 Suzuki SV650
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Suzuki’s SV650 will come with improved stopping power in 2019, thanks to an upgrade to new four-piston front brake calipers. The changes will also further improve the bike’s performance in Minitwin and Stocktwin racing championships, where regulations stipulate the use of standard calipers. As well as new brakes, the venerable middleweight will come with new…
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Anyone fancy a supermoto from the 2019 F 850 GS? Check this out, then
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So whilst people were looking at the 2019 BMW F 850 GS Adventure at the EICMA show (and wondering why the German factory wasn’t being a bit braver with the 95hp powerplant lump and chassis) aftermarket specialist Wunderlich were building this. It’s an F 850 GS supermoto for the road and it’s called the 850…
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Is this the most beautiful Ducati of all time? Yeah… probably… it’s awesome…
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OK, so hats off to the consistently excellent Asphalt & Rubber site in the US of A for posting these photos from Ducati of the 2019 Panigale V4 RS19. It’s the bike of the year – and we’re talking next year at that. It’s the bike of 2019. Yeah, it is. 234hp @ 15,500rpm is…
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Suzuki announces exclusive ‘For One Week Only’ Motorcycle Live offers
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Suzuki has just announced it’s special ‘For One Week Only’ set of offers that will run at this year’s Motorcycle Live at the NEC in a couple of week’s time. Launching on Monday 19 November and running until the closing weekend of the UK’s biggest motorcycle show on Sunday 25 November, Suzuki’s GSX-R1000R plus GSX-R125…
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REVEALED: Honda’s plans for a live heads up display beamed to the screen of your bike as your ride
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Honda has filed new designs for a first heads-up-display that will beam a motorcycle’s essential information onto the inside of the bike’s windscreen. The information will appear on a second screen mounted inside the windscreen of the motorcycle – this apes current so called pop-up information screens popular in lots of modern cars. The patent…
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MOTOGP: 2019 provisional calendar released: Brit GP at Silverstone on August 25 (at the moment)
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Here we go people, it’s that time of year again when the MotoGP lot put out the provisional calendar for 2019. History tells us that this calendar is likely to change many times over, so book the Brit GP week off right now at your peril. It could change. We’ll bring you the updates on…
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MOTOGP: Jorge Lorenzo tries out Foggy’s bike
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So what do you do when you’ve got a couple of minutes spare at a motorcycle show (and fancy finding out how much your knackered wrist has repaired). You pop yourself on Carl Fogarty’s WSB Ducati. Well, you do if you’re Jorge Lorenzo. Wonder how fast he’s be on it out on track?
