Street Bikes
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Triumph closes year with £2.3m profit
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Triumph closes year with £2.3m profit. Triumph made £2.3m profit in 2014/2015 according to financial reports just released – that compares to a huge £8m loss made in the 12 months prior to last year’s business year. In real terms the latest set of books for the Hinckley-based firm show that Triumph has brought in…
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Top Japanese journalists say Hayabusa 1400 with supercharger green-lit for next year
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Another story that’s raising eyebrows this morning is this claim from leading Japanese motorcycle magazine Young Machine that a supercharged 1400cc Hayabusa is about to enter final a final testing phase ahead of some launch in 2016. And that launch will probably NOT be at the end of next year, but sooner. There’s been a…
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SCOOP: The return of the quarter-litre quick bikes for 2016! According to the Japanese…
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Hot news from Japan this morning comes from the excellent Young Machine magazine – and it says that all of the major Japanese bike builders are gearing up for a full-on war in the supersporty, mini-superbikey 250cc road class. Spread over the next two years the class is going to get proper high-spec mini missiles.…
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Gorgeous Brutale-based special unveiled by top bike builder
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Check out this incredible special made by American Walt Siegl, it’s a half-way house between the current trend for retro-styled cafe racers and full-on sportsbikes. Based around the Brutale 800, the new 3-cylinder motor is mated to a trellis chassis. There’s a lot of engineering going into and around the motor too, as Siegl…
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FREE tickets for awesome Nick Sanders New Year tour dates (yep, FREE – so be quick)
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How about this for a cracking FREEBIE ticket offer deal for the first bit of 2016? We’re offering you a FREE ticket, yep, a FREE ticket to the Nick Sanders: The Ordinary Man Tour when it stops off for three great dates at CMC Motorcycles at Chesterfield, Cannock and South Wales. The dates that the…
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Kawasaki promises 12 new bikes over next two years
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Kawasaki promises 12 new bikes over next two years Kawasaki is planning to include 12 new models to its range over the next two years. The announcement was made at the recent press launch of the new Kawasaki J125 scooter in Malaga. The numbers revealed by Kawasaki do not include updates to the current range…
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Oi, Buell… this is what you should be making next!
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This is specials builder David Sanchez’ pretty awesome re-working of a Buell XB12SS, and it’s an easy bolt-on batch of kits that anyone can do in a pretty short period of time. Called the BOTT XC1, this is the second bike that Sanchez’ company Bottpower has worked on from Buell (the first was the XR1…
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VIDEO: World launch review Triumph Bonneville Street Twin
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We’ve been out on the world launch of the Triumph Bonneville Street Twin and here’s out launch video of what the bike’s like to ride. The 900cc motorcycle is all-new for 2016 and is pitched towards the easier-riding end of the range. It’s not bristling with tech but it does have a terrific chassis and…
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VIDEO: Yamaha’s 2016 FJR1300 adaptive light system in action
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Here’s a new video from Yamaha that shows the firm’s adaptive cornering light system on the new FJR1300, The lean-over lights are new for the big model this year and are automatically turned on as the bike is leaned over. The lights are linked to the machine’s Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), which knows how…
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Victory Motorcycles reveals last 1200cc concept series bike
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This concept, called ‘Combustion’, is powered by the new production engine that made its debut last month at EICMA in Milan, and was built by Zach Ness of Arlen Ness Motorcycles in Dublin, California. It’s the unit that powered the Project 156 Pikes Peak project motorcycle seen earlier this year. “Our family has a long-standing…
