Street Bikes
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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…
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Ducati’s Diavel gets the ‘Mad Max’ treatment
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Check out what you can do with a crashed Ducati Diavel and loads of time (plus a serious amount of cash) – should you be a bit ‘Mad Max’. This Diavel special started when Arun Sharma, the General Manager at Ducati’s US dealer, Motocorsa, picked up a damaged Diavel two years ago. Sharma teamed up with…
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Honda’s new motorcycle hybrid engine appears in published patent
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This image has appeared showing a patent drawing from Honda for a hybrid electric/petrol engine that’s destined for a motorcycle. Although the patent is not exactly new it is the first time we’ve seen this design set out in this way and specified for a motorcycle on the engine description. The bulk of the design…
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Video: The three-second long police chase ends in biker fail
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Video: The three-second long police chase ends in biker fail. It’s bad enough that he’s going to jail, but he also has to live with the shame of an internet biker fail. Police in Sandy Springs, Georgia USA, were recording on their dash cam when a motorcycle rider decided to run. But he made it an…
