Sports Bikes
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Supercharged! The Yamaha SR400 Yard Built special made by Rossi’s mechanic
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Over the last three years Yamaha’s Yard Built programme has worked with the world’s top custom builders to deliver fresh takes on the Sport Heritage range of motorcycles. The latest collaboration, with Belgian builder Fred ‘Krugger’ Bertrand (above, right), takes it to a whole new level with a stunning layer of MotoGP history worked into the custom…
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Suzuki’s OFFICIAL drawings for SUPERCHARGED GSX-R750 and GSX-R1000 REVEALED!
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Here is the official proof of the story we brought you last July – a supercharged Suzuki motor that looks like it’s going to be used in both a GSX-R750 AND a new, twin-piped GSX-R1000. It’s a set of patent drawings filed by Suzuki that we’ve got our hands on, and they show the motor…
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SPY SHOTS: 2017’s Mini-GSX-R Suzuki caught out on road tests!
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We’ve been banging on about the next-generation of small bikes that are being developed by the big factories and here’s the latest spy shot of the Suzuki mini-GSX-R out on test wearing full camo-colours. The bike is registered on the donor licence plate as a 150 but what this actually is (in the bigger scheme…
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SPY SHOTS: Honda’s CBR250RR caught in knee-down promo-video shoot action
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Here’s some great spy shots of the 2017 Honda CBR250RR out for a video shoot in Indonesia yesterday – this is the first time we’ve seen the bike in action since it was unveiled officially a couple of months ago. The bike was being shot for an upcoming Honda promotional video for the quarter-litre sportster…
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My bike: 2008 Yamaha TDM900A
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56-year-old Ian Watson from Fife shares his experience of Yamaha’s great all-rounder… This is my only bike, which I use to cover around 4000 miles every year. I bought it in May 2009 for £5495 from my local Yamaha dealer (and ex-Scottish Road Race Champion) Alan Duffus in Kirkcaldy. I’ve put 28,000 miles on it,…
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2017 Kawasaki ZX-10R gets funky white colour scheme
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Kawasaki has announced that the 2017 ZX-10R will get a new colour and alongside the Lime Green/Ebony ‘KRT Replica’ familiar factory colours will be this great Pearl Blizzard White/Metallic Flat Raw Titanium look. No prices announced so far for the 2017 models, we’ll let you know when we hear what those UK costs will be.…
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Honda OFFICIAL comment: CBR600 is DEAD (for now) and there’s NO Hornet 800 on the way!
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We’ve known for a while that Honda was killing off the iconic CBR600RR from its line-up because the costs to meet Euro4 regulations were too high to consider when compared to the falling sales of the bike – and now we’ve got the first official confirmation of that from a Honda boss. Speaking about the…
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Video: BMW/TVS mini 300cc superbike caught on film testing near Bangalore
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Now, the quality of this video isn’t that great (and there’s not a lot of the target bike in it), but what we have here IS footage of the soon-to-be released TVS Akula mini superbike out on the road. And from the footage you can see that the bike is pretty much the same…
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MV reveals F4Z custom superbike a week early
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We’ve been telling you about this bike for weeks now and MV Agusta has just revealed its F4Z custom superbike a week early on the factory’s own Twitter account. The bike, built around the Italian bike firm’s F4 superbike, has been commissioned as a one-off for a Japanese entrepreneur with the design actually being a…
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Ventura releases performance pack luggage for KTM’s Super Duke GT
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The new Ventura Bike Pack System for the KTM Super Duke GT has the best of both worlds: a sturdy rack-mounting system designed to hold the load safely and securely, and a range of bike packs that are light, easy to handle off the bike and can be easily rolled up and stashed away…
