Street Bikes
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AMAZING new Honda ‘Live’ computer instructor system for beginners revealed in patent drawings
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AMAZING new Honda ‘Live’ computer instructor system for beginners revealed in patent drawings. Here’s Honda’s latest idea for making new riders smarter riders – a live computer ‘pillion’ rider that analyses each ride and then tells a rider how to do it again straight away, but better. In a patent filed by the…
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2016 Kawasaki Ninja 250R mini-superbike pictures appear
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This is the next-generation, hot-to-trot Kawasaki Ninja 250 – a high-tech, high-spec version of the current soft-commuter/beginners bikes currently filling out the quarter-litre sector. The bike has been posted on Warungasep.net, and the side-on image shows the bike with some photo-shopping to clean up the bodywork. According to their source, the bike will either be…
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Honda recalls VFR1200F with immediate effect
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Honda is recalling 1,825 VFR1200F bikes for repair to a faulty universal joint in the driveshaft assembly. The announcement so far only effects American bikes (a total at the moment of 1,825 models). Honda says that because of the defect, the driveshaft’s universal joint bearings may prematurely wear which could cause the universal joint to…
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VIDEO: Quick walk through the 2016 Ducati range
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Tony Carter goes for a quick walk through the 2016 Ducati range at Motorcycle Live. Rapid look at rapid bikes – and the Scrambler 400. VIDEO: Quick walk through the 2016 Ducati range
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Video: 2016 Bimota Impeto and Tesi walk around
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A quick look at two amazing bits of kit for 2016 from Italian style house, Bimota. The 160bhp Impeto naked superbike and the weird, Tesi front ended cafe racer. Here’s Tony Carter with all the details: Video: 2016 Bimota Impeto and Tesi walk around
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Top Ten Motorcycles of Everything
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Countless hours have been won and lost chatting – or arguing – about the top ten fastest bikes, the classics, the not-so-classics, and the “if only we won the lottery” bikes. Well, we thought we’d pull together a top ten of the top ten. From the most futuristic to the fastest female, to the most…
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VIDEO: 2016 Yamaha MT-10 walk around
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We had a closer look at the new Yamaha MT-10 at Motorcycle Live. And we reckon it looks mean and fun! Here are our first impressions of the bike: VIDEO: 2016 Yamaha MT-10 walk around
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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.…
