Street Bikes
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Video: BMW’s South African TV ad splashes stooges superbike style
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Check out this amusing bit of video that’s running as an advertising campaign in South Africa. It’s to push the S1000RR superbike and it’s a combination of Candid Camera (remember that?) and good old outrageous speeding past a bus stop (remember doing that?). BMW Motorrad SA is behind the ad where the road alongside a…
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Clutch of great 200cc specials appear in India – mini-Adventure and mini-Superbikes from dealers
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Here’s a couple of specials from Indian bike dealers that have caught our eye – mainly because they’re so well done. Both of these bikes are made from the TVS Apache 200 donor bike. The 12v power supply, upright fairing and various Adventure-type add-ons make the small-capacity bike a real looker in this pic snapped…
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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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2017 KTM 390 Duke snapped INSIDE the factory. First picture of next year’s bike!
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Here’s a first picture of the 2017 KTM 390 Duke – and the snap has come from an inside leak at the Bajaj factory near Pune in India. What we can see from the pic is that the bike is getting a split headlight face for next year, nicely aggressive and just what the segment…
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SUPERCHARGED Kawasaki NINJA 250! Here’s picture proof of what we’ve been telling you!
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Here’s a picture that’d get a lot of people hoping… this is a Kawasaki Ninja 250R with a supercharger. And it’s being developed in plain sight in a Japanese championship by the Trick Star Racing outfit. Trick Star Racing has made a name for itself developing race parts for various Kawasaki’s including a retro-GPz900 and…
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Casey Stoner gets some miles in the dirt on Ducati’s Multistrada 1200 Enduro
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Casey Stoner’s having a bit of a European tour at the moment, having been out in corporate action at the Mugello GP round and now the Aussie former MotoGP world champion has stopped by Bologna to try out Ducati’s new maxi-enduro. “I love it”, were the first words Stoner said as he stepped off…
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Video: Michelin and Harley-Davidson made a film together – and here it is
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Here’s an odd bit of marketing from the tyre giants at Michelin and the people at Harley-Davidson – and it’s in the form of a pretty high-production-values movie that’s a way to kill some time. It’s called The Gift, it’s about a father and sons and stuff – and it involves motorcycles. Umm… other than…
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Rumour: New MV 1000 Brutale with electronics galore for 2017
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Rumour: New MV 1000 Brutale with electronics galore for 2017. This rumour is doing the rounds at the moment – a new F4 Brutalle 1000 from MV. And this is what the Italians reckon it’s going to look like when we see it in 2017. The bike is (apparently) going to be styled along the…
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Honda in recall of thousands of Gold Winds with airbags over ‘shrapnel’ fear
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Honda America is recalling 2,701 Gold Wings that have airbags fitted. The move comes after reports of something wrong in the Takata airbag system, a device which is fitted to 34 million cars and thousands of Gold Wings. It’s been found that over a period of time the propellant used to expand the bag in…
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New Yard Built XSR900 ‘Monkeebeast’ by Wrenchmonkees
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New Yard Built XSR900 ‘Monkeebeast’ by Wrenchmonkees Custom motorcycle builders the Wrenchmonkees are not only at the heart of the custom scene, they are also at the heart of Yamaha’s Yard Built activities. From their Copenhagen workshop the Danish duo have been responsible for a string of stunning builds from the Sport Heritage range, including…
