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Norton boss unveils plans for North West 200 and Ulster Grand Prix (NW200 entry could happen this year!)
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Norton boss unveils plans for North West 200 and Ulster Grand Prix (NW200 entry could happen this year!) Whilst the dust settles from yesterday’s announcements around the coming TT summer event on the Isle of Man, Norton boss Stuart Garner has set tongues wagging in the road race world with claims that his superbike could…
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Video: Maverick Vinales rides the Yamaha R15 at Indonesian launch
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Yamaha new-boy Maverick Vinales has been out in action on the new Yamaha R15 for a launch of the mini-superbike at Sentul, Indonesia. Here’s the footage that Yamaha has put up from the four laps that the MotoGP chap put in on the new bike. https://www.facebook.com/yamaholigan/videos/10154323472452643/ And here’s the pics. Nice touch to get Vinales…
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Video: First look at 2017 GSX-R1000 in track action!
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Video: First look at 2017 GSX-R1000 in track action! https://www.facebook.com/youngmachine/videos/1443525699009013/ Here’s a small wedge of video that’s emerged of the new Suzuki GSX-R1000 out track testing at Suzuka, Japan. Not that much to see, but it’s still interesting enough (and although you can hear another bike blasting past, you do get a bit of Suzuki…
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Ducati CEO CONFIRMS that next superbike is going to be a V4! Not a V-twin. And you’ll be able to buy it.
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So amid all the guff and bluster of the past few days something has happened that will get every single sportbike fan on the planet bubbling away – the boss of Ducati confirming that the company’s next superbike is going to be a V4… The quotes have been reported by the excellent MotoGP journalist David…
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Guy Martin to RACE at the TT this year! CONFIRMED! Team-mate to John McGuinness on factory Fireblades
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Guy Martin to RACE at the TT this year! CONFIRMED! Team-mate to John McGuinness on factory Fireblades. Guy Martin IS going to race at the TT this year – and he’s doing it as the official Honda team-mate to John McGuinness! The TV star has signed to ride the new Honda Fireblade in both the…
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First look: Rossi and Vinales’ 2017 Yamaha MotoGP bike unveiled
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First look: Rossi and Vinales’ 2017 Yamaha MotoGP bike unveiled. Here’s the 2017 Yamaha MotoGP bike which has just been unveiled by Valentino Rossi and Maverick Vinales at the Movistar Yamaha’s 2017 launch. The bike looks pretty different to last year’s bike – in colourscheme at least. Here’s the 2016 bike so that you can…
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Watch Rossi and Vinales at Yamaha’s MotoGP launch here LIVE at 10.30am UK
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Watch Rossi and Vinales at Yamaha’s MotoGP launch here LIVE at 10.30am UK. Hit the button on the screen above and you’ll get to watch Valentino Rossi and Maverick Vinales uncrate their 2017 MotoGP Yamahas. It’ll be a bit of a show and then everyone saying how excited they are and how amazed they are…
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Paton announces plans for Moto2 assault
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Paton announces plans for Moto2 assault. Italian motorcycle builder Paton is going to return to motorcycle grand prix racing with a new Moto2 bike wrapped around a Honda CBR 600 engine in 2018 and then a 765cc Triumph triple engine for the following season. Paton is pretty well known in GP racing circles, largely for…
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SPY SHOT: Ducati’s 2017 MotoGP bike in all it’s new aero, slippery goodness
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SPY SHOT: Ducati’s 2017 MotoGP bike in all it’s new aero, slippery goodness! It’s only a quickly taken snapshot from a phone – and we don’t know who took it (sorry) but this has popped up on our feed this morning. It’s the new Ducati MotoGP bike. For this year, and the forseeable future, the…
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Josh Brookes CONFIRMED as riding the Norton at TT 2017!
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Josh Brookes CONFIRMED as riding the Norton at TT 2017! TWO years after winning the BSB title, Aussie Josh Brookes is back in the UK – taking on the domestic Superbike championship AND the Isle of Man TT! Brookes will ride the Norton racebike on The Mountain Course, he will be part of an all-Aussie…
