Street Bikes
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Two more specials surface from Honda in Bangkok – check out the sweet 300TT cafe racer
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A couple more Bangkok Show specials have surfaced today with these two Hondas. MotoSaigon.vn was the first to peg up pictures of the gorgeous CB300TT special and the slightly-more ho-hum gold-coloured CB650 Scrambler-derived bike. Out of the two, we really like the CB300TT cafe racer special, but given how many of these Honda-show specials we’ve…
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Suzuki’s SV650 Rally Concept: Q&A reveals possible future for cafe racer idea
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Suzuki’s SV650 Rally Concept: Q&A reveals possible future for cafe racer idea. Last weekend, Suzuki showed off this SV650 Rally Concept bike on the factory stand in Osaka, Japan. Details of the bike were scarce but the middleweight looked funky enough to get a lot of attention from the attending crowd. Since then, we’ve…
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2017 Yamaha R6 to be ‘virtually identical to R1’ looks – claim
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It’s another claim by the top Japanese magazine YoungMachine and it features a serious bit of information about the next generation middleweight from Yamaha. According to the publication, the Yamaha is going to be a virtual lookalike of its bigger capacity sibling. The new bike’s face in the mock-up image on the cover of the…
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Meet the HARLEY-DAVIDSON Adventure bike! Yeah!
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Meet the HARLEY-DAVIDSON Adventure bike! Yeah! This is the big surprise of the Bangkok Motor Show – with awesome coverage by the chaps at the Rushlane website – and it’s is happening right now, it’s a 2016 Street 750 Harley-Davidson that’s been converted into an Adventure bike. And although the official word is that this…
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So you take a Yamaha FZ16 and build this…
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No, we don’t know why you’d do this sort of thing either – but it’s been done. For stylistic reasons apparently… Anyway, what we’re looking at here is a Yamaha FZ16 that’s been turned over by Pune-based Indi Custom Garage in India. The bike has been overseen by Arghadeep Sarma and started out as one…
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SCOOP video: Suzuki SV650 Rally Concept walkaround film
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Check out this video walkaround of the Suzuki SV650 Rally Concept. Basically this is little more than a bolt-on bitsa from Suzuki which was shown at the Osaka motorcycle show at the weekend. Under the additional bodywork bits, new seat and odd-looking backside is a piggyback Yoshimura exhaust (nice) and the new SV650 from the…
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Honda’s hybrid-powered scooter plans for 2017 appear
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Honda’s hybrid-powered scooter plans for 2017 appear. This is Honda’s latest design for its upcoming hybrid-engined scooter. The patent drawings have just been published for a super-mpg scooter that’s going to be part of the 2017 line-up. Details on the bike are pretty scarce but what we can see is a motor that’s part…
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SCOOP Video: Osaka Show Hondas walkaround (check out the CB Type II concept!)
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Video: Osaka Show Hondas walkaround (check out the CB Type II concept!) Here’s a walkaround video of the Hondas at the Osaka Motorcycle show 2016. The show happened at the weekend and really there wasn’t much there other than a dressed up Africa Twin, the City Adventure high-legged suspension, the CRF250 prototype (again…) and the…
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Spy snaps of Bimota’s 200bhp supercharged Impeto naked appear
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Here’s the first pictures of the Supercharged Bimota Impeto big naked. The bike has been snapped as it was being readied to be shipped to the Tokyo Motor Show which starts next week. This is the bike that Bimota first showed at last year’s Milan motorcycle show but back then it wasn’t supercharged, this…
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Kawasaki’s plan for new 800 naked appear with adjustable bodywork and more sporty aspirations
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Kawasaki has pushed through another update for it’s big naked model range with an as-yet-specified model getting updated bodywork and a more sporty riding position. The model is likely to end up in the 2017 model range and the drawing has just been filed with details of an updated air intake into the motor (although…
