Street Bikes

  • Fancy being a Ducati ‘torch bearer’ one of seven people riding a relay around the world for the Italian bike maker?

    Fancy being a Ducati ‘torch bearer’ one of seven people riding a relay around the world for the Italian bike maker?

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    Ducati has sent us this information about a global relay-ride that the firm is holding which will see a Multistrada 1200 Enduro ridden around the world – cool enough – but what they are looking for are SEVEN riders from the general public who will make up the riding team. And you could be one…

  • Indian journos make this mini-GS310 Adventure image from our exclusive story – we love it!

    Indian journos make this mini-GS310 Adventure image from our exclusive story – we love it!

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    Indian journos make this mini-GS310 Adventure image from our exclusive story – we love it! Our friends at top Indian site Rushlane have sent us this computer image of a mini-GS300 type BMW Adventure bike which they came up with from our scoop story on April 6. Here’s our article that inspired this illustration, the…

  • Video: Yamaha Tracer 700 in action

    Video: Yamaha Tracer 700 in action

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    Yamaha has just released this promotional video of it’s new Tracer 700 in action. The bike has been revealed to everyone today by the factory, it’s a MT-07 upright bike that makes 75bhp, will be in dealers in July and costs £6,299. Here’s the video:    

  • Yamaha’s new Tracer 700 – in dealers in July and costs £6,299

    Yamaha’s new Tracer 700 – in dealers in July and costs £6,299

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    Here is the new bike from Yamaha for 2016 – as expected it’s the Tracer 700. The MT-07 upright bike has been spied in testing trim for a couple of months and here it is in finished version. It’ll cost £6,299. The new Tracer 700 will be available in three colours – Radical Red, Tech Black…

  • Here’s Harley-Davidson’s new Roadster for 2016

    Here’s Harley-Davidson’s new Roadster for 2016

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    Here’s Harley-Davidson’s new Roadster for 2016.   This is the new Harley-Davidson Roadster – the latest addition to the firm’s Sportster range. It comes in four colours; vivid black with a charcoal denim pinstripe, black denim with a red pinstripe and velocity red sun Sunglo with a red pinstripe. The vivid black scheme will cost…

  • Kawasaki unveils new KLX250 D-Tracker Final Edition

    Kawasaki unveils new KLX250 D-Tracker Final Edition

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    Kawasaki unveils new KLX250 D-Tracker Final Edition. Kawasaki has shown this over the weekend in Japan, the new KLX250 D-Tracker. The on/off-road bike may have been around in various forms since the mid-1980s but this is the end of the line, according to Japanese journalists this morning. The model is called the X Final Edition…

  • Tested: Pirelli Diablo Rosso III tyres

    Tested: Pirelli Diablo Rosso III tyres

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      WORDS: John Milbank, editor Motorcycle Sport and Leisure – PHOTOGRAPHY: Milagro   Price: Around £240 a pair What better way to test a tyre that’s claimed to be perfect for UK riders of sports, naked and sport-touring bikes than in the pouring rain? I’m sure that, in 20°C heat on a sunny Spanish race…

  • Video: Africa Twin’s DCT switches explained!

    Video: Africa Twin’s DCT switches explained!

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    We’ve taken a few minutes out from a photoshoot to show you what switches do what on the Honda Africa Twin – because we realised that nobody has done this yet.

  • FIRST look at prototype Yamaha MT-07 Adventure bike – ALL OF THE PICS right here!

    FIRST look at prototype Yamaha MT-07 Adventure bike – ALL OF THE PICS right here!

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    Yamaha’s MT-07 Adventure bike breaks cover in Italy. These spy shots are the first to show the new MT-07 Adventure from Yamaha being put through early road tests in Italy and we’re showing all the pictures of the bike for FREE right here, these are all the pictures for you to see – we’re not…

  • KTM’s mini-Adventure bike – according to the Indian journos this morning

    KTM’s mini-Adventure bike – according to the Indian journos this morning

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    This is a pretty nice computer mock-up of a future bike – it’s the small Adventure from KTM, based around this firm’s 390. Made for the Indian outlet Rushlane based on rumours that they’ve heard, the image pretty much takes the workings of the 390 and slaps them into a smaller 1190/1050 KTM dress. This…

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