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MotoGP: Marc Marquez extends his HRC contract until the end of 2024
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The eight-time world champion rider has signed a four-year extension of his contract. It’s been confirmed today that Marc Marquez will continue to race with the Honda MotoGP factory team until at least December 2024. So far, the reigning Champion in the Premier League class has claimed 56 victories, 95 podiums and 62 pole positions…
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Sparks fly! Harley-Davidson and Indian Motorcycle go to war. Sort of.
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Harley-Davidson has (unofficially) bitten back at Indian Motorcycle – following the resurgent brand’s recent marketing campaign, which pits its new Challenger against H-D’s Road Glide. To show off the Challenger’s 122hp V-twin engine, Indian’s filmed it going up against Harley-Davidson’s Road Glide in a drag race and a taco truck tow-off. And it’s even offering…
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Flying Flea and Roadster – two new model names registered by Royal Enfield
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It looks like there’s two more new bikes coming from Royal Enfield which has registered two names with the European Union Intellectual Property Office: Flying Flea and Roadster. ‘Flying Flea’ isn’t a new name for Enfield though, the original flea was a 125cc bike made from the early 1930s to the 1960s. During the second…
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And here’s the official photos of the Zero SR/S
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When we brought you the scaled up screenshots of the Zero SR/S short-lived teaser video earlier this week, we said that the tech for the newly-dressed bike was likely to be the same as on the SR/F naked version that had been on sale for some time. And that’s turned out to be the case…
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MotoGP: Here’s the trailer for UNDAUNTED – The documentary following Andrea Dovizioso
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Here’s a trailer for Dovi’s film: Undaunted: An intimate ride into MotoGP and it looks terrific. The movie has been made by director Paolo Novelli who followed Dovizioso for all of last year, documenting his life both at the track and away from it. Novelli said: “I was a fool to follow Dovi for a…
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VIDEO: So you’ve got a load of cardboard and too much time on your hands…
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In the cold light of day, there’s not a lot you can say about this lovely thing that’s happened other than: three lads in Vietnam got a ratty 125cc engine, bodged a frame and a car-tyred back wheel then dressed their creation in cardboard so that it looks like a BMW S1000RR superbike. Watch the…
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MotoGP: Kawasaki wants to put its WSB bike into MotoGP races!
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Dorna boss Carmelo Ezpeleta has admitted that Kawasaki has indeed floated the idea of putting its factory World Superbike racebike up against the hand-made prototype MotoGP machines of Valentino Rossi, Marc Marquez and the rest. Speaking to GPOne, he said: “I’m going to tell you something, Kawasaki recently asked me about the possibility of doing some ‘wild…
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This is Indian Motorcycle’s Appaloosa V2.0 a straight-line ice-racer that’s right out of Mad Max
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Indian Motorcycle and Workhorse Speed Shop have announced the comeback of Appaloosa at the 2020 Baikal Mile, an extreme test of rider and machine on the ice surface of Lake Baikal, Siberia. Appaloosa v2.0 will make its 2020 racing debut in Russia from February 25 to March 1. The Baikal Mile first took place in…
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VIDEO: Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss take to a Ducati Scrambler motorcycle for Matrix 4
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It’s a brief bit of filming from the side of the road, but it does confirm that the Matrix 4 is featuring Ducatis. In the footage Reeves is harnessed to an overhead rig whilst Moss fakes riding the bike, the whole set-up is locked into a Process Trailer which lets the film crew do it’s…
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New photos of the Zero SR/S emerge from the States. Looks 1990s Ducati-ish
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These great screen grabs of a leaked video have appeared on the excellent American website Asphalt&Rubber – and because they show you so much of the upcoming Zero SR/S fully faired electric bike (unveiled officially in the next few days), we figured we’d show you them. Basically, the bike is a SR/F naked bike with…
