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Guy Martin and John McGuinness out in action in Japan testing electric TT bikes
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John McGuinness and Guy Martin have been putting in the Japanese laps on the electric bikes that they will both contest at this year’s Isle of Man Zero TT race. The Honda team-mates were out in action in Japan yesterday with the Mugen Shinden electric bike squad. Although both riders were at the test, held…
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Iron Maiden goes full Isle of Man TT with 2017 tour t-shirt (featuring Peter Hickman and his Smiths Triumph). Yeah.
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Iron Maiden has revealed its new 2017 UK tour shirt and the monsters of metal’s allegiance is squarely set with Peter Hickman and this year’s Isle of Man TT. You can see the front of the t-shirt above with Hickman, his crashed van and his Smiths Triumph all featured on the tour garb. The…
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Video: Ride along with Guy Martin in a secret Time Attack lap of Cadwell Park (it’s four wheels… mostly…)
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https://www.facebook.com/cadwellpark/videos/1649985511681794/ Check out this video of Guy Martin putting a Time Attack Evo through its paces at Cadwell Park. the lad looks a bit tasty. This happened a couple of weeks ago at the Lincolnshire circuit and the rumour is that this attempt was being filmed for an upcoming episode of the Speed series.
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John McGuinness opens up about concerns over Guy Martin’s TT ambitions this year: “I’m a bit worried about him. He needs a year or two back.”
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Legendary Isle of Man TT winner John McGuinness has spoken about his worry over Honda teammate Guy Martin in this year’s event on The Island. Speaking in an exclusive interview with Motor Sport magazine, out now, McGuinness says that he’s nervous that Martin is out of practice when it comes to racing. McGuinness said: “I’m a…
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MotoGP: Suzuki’s Alex Rins has broken his ankle
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This just in from Suzuki, the factory is playing it down – but it’s a fracture in the ankle for the MotoGP rider… Team SUZUKI ECSTAR rider Alex Rins had a slight accident while training on Thursday with his Suzuki RM-Z motocross machine. Apparently without major incident, but with some pain in the right ankle,…
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Buy a 2017 Jurby T-shirt and help support the Manx Grand Prix injured riders and helicopter fund
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Over the past two years, Wemoto has raised over £26,000 for the Manx Grand Prix Supporters’ Club through that sale of its Festival of Jurby T-shirts. This year, it wants to raise more. 2017 marks the 60th anniversary of Bob McIntyre becoming the first person ever to lap the 37.73-mile Mountain Course on the…
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Gary Johnson to race WK650 at the 2017 TT
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WK Bikes CFMOTO Factory Team has confirmed Gary Johnson will ride for the squad once again at the Isle of Man TT races. Gary and the team just missed a podium finish in 2016 by just two seconds. The WK650 bike is made by Chinese bike builder CFMOTO which has a deal with motorcycle manufacturing…
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MotoGP: Sam lowes ‘We’ll make big step in Argentina’
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Aprilia Racing Team Gresini rider Sam Lowes has been talking about his plans for how to get his MotoGP bike further up the field following his race debut on the Italian machine last weekend which saw the Lincolnshire lad finish in 18th place. Speaking to MotoGP.com, Lowes said: “The weekend was a bit different, with…
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Oooh, yes… this is the Ducati 851 Superleggera
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It’s only a computer-generated image, so don’t get too excited, but we love this and figured that you’d probably love it, too. This picture is from the guys at WorldSBK.com and is their take on what a factory-fresh Ducati Superleggera would look like with the sublimely beautiful bodywork bodywork of Raymond Roche’s 1990 World…
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Lorenzo launches attack on Rossi and Yamaha
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Jorge Lorenzo has opened up about his time at Yamaha in a wide-swinging interview where the Majorcan claims that he wasn’t treated as well as teammate Valentino Rossi. In the quite astonishing interview for the website Marca the Ducati rider spoke about his former relationship with Rossi when the pair were racing for the Japanese factory: “Yamaha…
