Adventure Bikes
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SCOOP KTM 800 Duke spotted out testing
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Oh wow, pictures have surfaced in the German magazine Motorrad (and here’s the page, sent to us by a good German friend) of the 2016 KTM Duke 800. Earlier this year we heard Stefan Pierer, KTM CEO and President, hint towards two new KTM models and this is the first of them – there is…
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VIDEO Mega deep river crossing on Ural sidecars!
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Here’s a mega fun video for you on to enjoy – take some Ural sidecar outfits, have some Russian lads doing a weird tour in the wildlands and then throw in a river to cross. Honestly, we reckon this is one of the most potentially dangerous things we’ve ever seen on a bike (and certainly…
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SCOOP Awesome ZX10R scrambler pics go public
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Oh, how we like these. From the team at Holographic Hammer comes three gorgeous designs for cafe racers made from ZX10R Kawasakis. Yes, they may only be drawings (of the very highest quality), but they’re flippin’ pretty drawings. What do you think they’d handle like if anyone made these things then? Would it be…
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VIDEO Scramblers in the Rockies. GREAT film with Ducati and Triumph.
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Our good friends at Motorcyclist magazine have made a great video where they shun the big Adventure bikes for two modern-take scramblers and head out for some dirt fun. We love this, and we like that the guys went and did it in a country where you really can do some serious off-roading in…
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Massive fire guts Fantic site and destroys bikes
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A fire has swept through the Fantic production sheds at Treviso in Italy leaving bikes and machinery destroyed and causing a million Euros of damage. The fire broke out around midnight on Wednesday August 5, ten fire engines attended the blaze with the first unit arriving on site at 1.15am. According to reports, the majority…
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Our latest FREE weekly MoreBikes app is now LIVE
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The latest issue of our FREE weekly MoreBikes app is out now. Full of the stories, kit reviews, features and news that matters – and some silly stuff and videos that don’t really matter but will make you smile. Doesn’t cost a penny and you can get it from here: Here’s the app! At…
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SCOOP Kawasaki 2016 colours and stuff (so far)
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Kawasaki has just sent us these updates for the 2016 range so we thought we’d let you read what the factory itself is saying about the changes to the range. Mostly just colours at this stage, new models like the new ZX-10R and possibly the new junior supercharged bike, both of which we scooped a while back,…
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VIDEO More Maddison KTM surfing action
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We were the first to bring you the Robbie Maddison KTM surfing video but the story behind the shoot might surprise you. For the ‘Pipe Dreams’ video DC shoes and Aussie riding superstar Maddison spent two and half years taking the plan from page to reality. The result was the four minute video that has…
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SCOOP Mini Suzuki V-Strom (a 250) is on the way
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More rumours from Japan about Suzuki’s 2016 line-up and this time they have the big blue company firing a 250 version of its V-Strom into the mix. Basically, the bike is the current Inazuma 250, using the same 248cc, liquid-cooled parallel-twin motor that kicks out 24.6bhp. The G-Strom 250 (as the Japanese journos are…
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VIDEO Robbie Maddison’s big surf riding motocross thing!
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Big jump legend Robbie Maddison has just released this new video, ‘Pipe Dream’ which is… well… him riding a motocross bike in huge Tahitian surf. There’s not much more to add to that other than, this is that cool it’s worth watching over and over. About as cool as it’s possible to be on…
