Sports Bikes
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VIDEO Official onboard TT lap on the H2R. Turn up the volume!
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Check out this awesome onboard video of the Kawasaki H2R on the Isle of Man earlier this year. The bike didn’t race at the event but was put around The Mountain Course by James Hillier as a display lap for excited fans. Turn the sound up loud on your computer and revel in the speed.…
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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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Oh good gravy… Bonneville has been cancelled! Again!
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A month ago the Bonneville Speed Week event was cancelled, last week the Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials were back on with ‘a tentative go’ – this week the latest news from the salty land is that everything is finally off. After loads of to-ing and fro-ing there will now not be any motorcycle speed records…
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SCOOP AWESOME KTM/RD350 special built by kid in India
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Now THIS is what we want to have a go on next – this absolutely gorgeous mash-up between a KTM Duke 390 and a Yamaha RD350. This special has been built in India by Aseem Singh Pawar and is officially called the RD-Duke. Pawar (pictured below) lovingly calls his bike the ‘Flying Sikh’ and has done…
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Hot rumour’s from Ducati sources: 899 ‘S’ instead of new Streetfighter 1299
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Hot rumours today about the Ducati 2016 line-up which are largely centering around a 899 ‘S’ type model Panigale. The grumbles about the bike are coming from America and they are virtually rubbishing the recent gossip-mongering elsewhere that claimed we could be about to see a 1299-based Streetfighter launched by Ducati. Those rumours of the…
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SCOOP Great British Bake Off Hollywood starting Bikes n Bakes festival!
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British Bake Off star Paul Hollywood is setting up a motorcycle and baking festival. No, we didn’t believe it either when we first heard about it – but it’s true. The brilliant lazer-eyed barn owl of baking is a life-long motorcycle fan and owns a few bikes including a Kawasaki H2. He’s trying to…
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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 Brookes wins BSB then bins it (this is the bin it bit)
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Josh Brookes took Pole, the lap record and two wins at Thruxton over the weekend. All good stuff (and what is known in the racing world as the ‘Gentleman’s set’). It was the Aussie Yamaha star’s second consecutive double victory, so you’d expect a celebration. And Brookesey was properly up for a big burnout…
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VIDEO: Dani Pedrosa screaming around on a supermoto
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Check out this pretty excellent video of Dani Pedrosa ripping the wotsit out of a supermoto bike. The whole video is very ‘arty’ in places, but don’t let that put you off – it’s well worth a watch. The lad can slide a supermoto around, no doubt about that.
