Adventure Bikes
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X-Lite launches the flip-up carbon touring helmet. Sweet.
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X-Lite launches the flip-up carbon touring helmet. Sweet. This is the new X-Lite X-1004 DYAD Ultra Carbon – X-Lite’s lightest ever flip up lid and it’s specifically aimed at touring riders. Costing £449.99 the helmet is around 80g less than most flip-up lids weighing in at 1,510g. It comes in sizes XXS to 3XL…
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Launch ride: Ducati Multistrada 950
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Launch ride: Ducati Multistrada 950. Words: Mikko Nieminen Photos: Ducati The Ducati Multistrada 950 is the new, more accessible addition to the Multistrada family. Ducati says it’s four bikes in one: a bike you can use for touring, urban, sporty or enduro riding. And as Ducatis go, this one is quite affordable too. The smaller…
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Video: Valentino Rossi takes on dirt track legend Brad Baker at the Rossi ranch
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Video: Valentino Rossi takes on dirt track legend Brad Baker at the Rossi ranch. https://youtu.be/lD3XCRrWqZc Check out this video of two legends having some dirt track fun and games. This is nine-time world champion Valentino Rossi doing a load of sliding on the muck with AMA Pro Flat Track racer Baker. Baker is a former…
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SPY SHOTS: Caught out! KTM’s 2018 790 Adventure spied testing on the road
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SPY SHOTS: Caught out! KTM’s 2018 790 Adventure spied testing on the road. These are the first pictures of the upcoming 800cc Enduro bike from KTM. The bike, which will be called the 790 Adventure, is scheduled to appear later on in 2017, there’s debate as to when the bike is actually going to…
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Video: Riding trials around an active volcano
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Video: Riding trials around an active volcano. https://youtu.be/9FWSI2yb0qo It’s been a while since we put this out there, but it’s worth watching again – and if you’ve not seen this video of our friend, trials god Julien Dupont doing his thing then we’re pretty sure that you’re going to enjoy it. It was made last…
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Video: AMAZING skills on show from Enduro God Graham Jarvis
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So this video from Husqvarna is supposedly a ‘Jarvis passes on his skills to young wonder Pascal Rauchenecker’. That might be so, but we keep watching this over and over because it’s some of the most incredible riding by two of the most skilled motorcyclists in the world that we’ve ever seen. Watch this. It’s…
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Spied: Mystery BMW GS snapped by Italians on the road. What do you reckon this is?
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Spied: Mystery BMW GS snapped by Italians on the road. What do you reckon this is? So what the hell is this thing snapped by Italian publication Motociclismo? It’s out doing the miles on the road, so it’s nearing the end of whatever development schedule it’s been on so far. This is a fresh, new…
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Motorcycle Live! Check out the AWESOME FMX Live Arenacross show EVERY DAY!
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Motorcycle Live! Check out the AWESOME FMX Live Arenacross show EVERY DAY! FMX Live presented by Arenacross returns to Motorcycle Live at the NEC next week with a crammed programme of high-octane insanity performed by an entry of top-level, talent hand-picked by the team behind the AX Tour. And you can watch it for FREE!…
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Motorcycle Live! A 2017 thing to go and do: Try out an Adventure bike for real!
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Motorcycle Live! A 2017 thing to go and do: Try out an Adventure bike for real! As you know by now, Motorcycle Live! is on and it’s packed full of great bikes and brilliant things to do, so get to it and dive in to all that motorcycle goodness. We’ve had a first-look at the…
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Video: When mini bikes go so, so wrong (big air, big ouch…)
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Video: When mini bikes go so, so wrong (big air, big ouch…) Sometimes a jump comes up kinda short – and sometimes your efforts go from cool to a full-on face plant. Ouch. Double ouch, in fact.
