Street Bikes
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SCOOP: Honda teases with official pictures of 2016 NC750X AND 400X (500X in the UK)
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Here’s the first look at two more 2016 Hondas – the NC750X AND new 400X which will be sold as the 500X in the UK. Honda has announced that it will show the world premiere of both bikes at the 44th Tokyo Motor Show 2015 at the end of the month. Here’s what Honda…
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VIDEO: Biker pulls wheelie, gives police the finger then legs it
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VIDEO: Biker pulls wheelie, gives police the finger then legs it. OK, we need to put this in here in order to make our position clear (to be honest, we’re doing this mostly to stop people sending us abusive emails as a result of this sort of thing) – but we don’t condone this sort…
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SCOOP: Shaft-driven Aprilia on the way! Patents show radical plan
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SCOOP: Shaft-driven Aprilia on the way! Patents show radical plan. We have been sent a new patent drawing that shows that Aprilia is planning a new SHAFT-DRIVE bike. Info is scarce at the moment and the only details we have is that the patent is callled: Homokinetic Motorcycle Transmission and Motorcycle Comprising Said Transmission, the…
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VIDEO: Stock H2R goes soooo fast over time trial tarmac mile
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VIDEO: Stock H2R goes soooo fast over time trial tarmac mile. Check out this awesome video of Team 38 topping 216mph for over a mile on a STOCK H2R during time trials. The bunch of Japense bikers. going under the name Team 38, was established in 1975 and work on developing Kawasaki bikes. They had…
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Yamaha’s NEXT-GEN FZ1 Fazer picture surfaces
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Yamaha’s NEXT-GEN FZ1 Fazer picture surfaces. We’ve known for a while that Yamaha is working on an updated, high-spec version of the FZ1 Fazer – most likely to be powered by a de-tuned R1 engine and here’s what the Japanese journalists talking to Yamaha reckon the bike will look like. As with whole ranges of…
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Yamaha’s weird and wonderful at the Tokyo Motor Show revealed
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Other news from the world of Yamaha in the run-up to the 44th Tokyo Motor Show. And there’s very little in the way of surprises – unless you count wood panels on a bike something of a surprise, that is. The single cylinder, 125cc Resonator125 (above) is a funky little concept bike that apes the…
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Yamaha’s super three-wheeler for Tokyo – best picture yet shows loads more
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Yamaha’s super three-wheeler for Tokyo – best picture yet shows loads more. Yamaha is showing this tilting three-wheeled concept at the Tokyo motor show at the end of this month. Details about the bike are scarce and, other than this single image released by the factory, all that we know is what we can see…
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New Kawasaki Z125 spotted in Asia
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New Kawasaki Z125 spotted in Asia Pictures of what might be the new Kawasaki Z125, the smallest bike in the Japanese manufacturer’s Z-series, have just appeared in Asia. The photos show a naked bike with Kawasaki & Z logos. Image quality is poor, so we can’t tell if it says 125 under the Z, but…
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Pictures: Honda unveils its 2016 CBR range
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Pictures: Honda unveils its 2016 CBR range Following the launch of the 2016 CBR500R earlier today, Honda has now revealed more of its 2016 CBR range in the US. New models include CBR1000RR, CBR600RR and CBR300R. Have a look at the pictures below: CBR300R CBR600RR CBR1000RR Here’s what Honda says about the new bikes: CBR300R…
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Tokyo Motor Show: more LOLcats weirdness from Yamaha
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Tokyo Motor Show: more LOLcats weirdness from Yamaha. A couple of weeks ago we were the first to share the (frankly bizarre) LOLcats teaser pictures that Yamaha’s marketing people released, hinting at new bikes to be displayed at the Tokyo show at the end of the month. Now the Yamaha LOLcats are at it again,…
