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Sam Lowes interview: ‘After Assen it’s my first ride on the Aprilia MotoGP bike!’
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Sam Lowes interview: ‘After Assen it’s my first ride on the Aprilia MotoGP bike!’ Sam Lowes has been doing the PR-bit with the powers-that-be at MotoGP and has given this interview to them about his first upcoming official test on the Aprilia RS-GP MotoGP machine that he will be riding in 2017. It makes for…
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First look: Indian’s 109bhp, 10,000rpm liquid-cooled motor
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First look: Indian’s 109bhp, 10,000rpm liquid-cooled motor. Here’s the first look at the new motor which Indian will use in it’s upcoming, purpose-built, road legal flat tracker, MoreBikes told you about this bike first a full year ago and Indian finally confirmed its existence yesterday with some serious details about the new model. The bike…
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Indian confirms MoreBikes story from a year ago with flat-track announcement
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Indian has just confirmed the scoop that we told you about first – a year ago! The American firm has just said that it is going to go AMA flat track racing with it’s first full factory racing effort since the 1950s. And it’s going to do it with a new liquid-cooled motor. And here’s…
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TT 2016: Video of super slow-mo that’ll blow your mind
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TT 2016: Video of super slow-mo that’ll blow your mind. We’ve been sent this clip from the IOMTTPICS.COM website and it’s pretty cool. The snapper has set up his own kerb cam on the Isle of Man Mountain Course. The footage is from this year’s event and looks pretty much the same as what you’ll…
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WSB Misano: Preview – Past the Halfway Marker, All Bets Are Off
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Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli lies on the Riviera di Rimini in Italy, surrounded by the beaches of the glittering blue Adriatic coast. Now renamed in honour of fallen local hero and former 250 World Champion Marco Simoncelli, the circuit was remodeled in 2006 and the layout now winds clockwise around its 4km length, through…
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WSB legend Fabrizio Pirovano has died
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One of the original entrants to the World Superbike championship, Fabrizio Pirovano – ‘The King of Monza’, has died aged 56. The awesome Italian former motorcycle racer from Biassono in Italy was one of the first racers in WSB, taking part in the 1988 championship and continuing in the series for several years. He was…
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TT 2016: Sidecar driver Ian Bell has died
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The ACU has released this statement following an accident at the Isle of Man during today’s Sidecar race involving Ian Bell. Sidecar driver Ian Bell, 58, from Bedlington, Northumberland was killed following an accident at Ballaspur during today’s Sidecar Race 2 at the Isle of Man TT Races. Ian was competing with his son Carl…
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TT 2016: Dunlop wins Senior TT race with a record-breaking 133.962mph lap
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Michael Dunlop took a superb victory in the Senior TT this afternoon. The Hawk BMW rider set a new absolute lap record – breaking his own marker only set last Saturday in the RST Superbike TT Race – at 133.962mph. He also set a new race record time for a six lap race on the…
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TT 2016: Birchalls take their fourth Sidecar TT victory
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Ben and Tom Birchall took their fourth career TT win on Friday with victory in the second Sidecar race at the 2016 Isle of Man TT Races. The IEG Racing duo were locked in battle with Dave Molyneux/Daniel Sayle for the first lap but when they retired, they had a comfortable lead and eventually took…
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TT 2016: Hutchy tells crowd: “Bet on me for the Senior!”
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FOURTEEN times TT winner Ian Hutchinson has shot a massive warning across the bows of his Senior TT rivals ahead of tomorrow’s premier race. Speaking in a private audience with show on The Island tonight, the Bingley Bullet told an expectant crowd: “You should bet on me for tomorrow!” The rider, who became the fourth…
