Street Bikes
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Guy Martin now back at home and recovering from broken back
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Great news everyone. Guy Martin is now back at home and beginning the long recovery road after breaking his back at the Dundrod 150 road race last week. Guy traveled back to Lincolnshire with his dad, Ian, and girlfriend Sharon Comiskey yesterday and arrived at home in the evening. He broke his back, sternum and…
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Exclusive 1000cc V8 Drysdale nicked
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So what do you do with an almost-unique, hand-built, super-exclusive 1000cc V8 motorcycle – once you’ve stolen it? There are some pretty dumb bike thieves out there, but we’ve got contenders for the top spot here. Not long after the electric, one-off American Victory/Brammo podium TT electric was stolen (a motorcycle that you wouldn’t…
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SCOOP Project Gemini – trick, 160bhp Speed Triples revealed
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How do you like these Triumph triple specials? Limited to just 100 custom Speed Triples, these are some of the designs for Project Gemini. Made by T3 Racing and Kevin Taggart, Spirit of the Seventies designer, the bikes are more than just a tweak of the cosmetics. The bikes front suspension gets a revamp, with the new…
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SCOOP AWESOME KTM/RD350 special built by kid in India
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Now THIS is what we want to have a go on next – this absolutely gorgeous mash-up between a KTM Duke 390 and a Yamaha RD350. This special has been built in India by Aseem Singh Pawar and is officially called the RD-Duke. Pawar (pictured below) lovingly calls his bike the ‘Flying Sikh’ and has done…
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SCOOP Atlantic Metals buys up Erik Buell Racing for $2.25m
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The second half of the deal over Erik Buell Racing has now gone through after an auction yesterday – in which Altlantic Metals acquired all of EBR’s bike-making equipment. That means the machines, parts, tools and associated bits and parts of EBR PLUS the company’s trademarks, patents and databases are now owned by the American…
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Our latest FREE weekly MoreBikes app is now LIVE
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The latest issue of our FREE weekly MoreBikes app is out now. Full of the stories, kit reviews, features and news that matters – and some silly stuff and videos that don’t really matter but will make you smile. Doesn’t cost a penny and you can get it from here: Here’s the app! At…
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Meet Honda’s funky Hornet 160R. About to go on sale.
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What do reckon to this little beauty then? This is the Honda CB Hornet 160R, a bike that’s going on sale in the Indian market. Powered by a 162cc single-cylinder air-cooled engine that makes 14.5bhp @ 8,000rpm, maximum torque is 14.61Nm @ 6,000rpm and the bike gets a five-speed gearbox – top end on the…
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SCOOP Kawasaki 2016 colours and stuff (so far)
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Kawasaki has just sent us these updates for the 2016 range so we thought we’d let you read what the factory itself is saying about the changes to the range. Mostly just colours at this stage, new models like the new ZX-10R and possibly the new junior supercharged bike, both of which we scooped a while back,…
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Motorcycle Live 2015 tickets on sale today
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Tickets for Motorcycle Live 2015 go on sale today. This year’s show gets underway on Saturday November 28 at The NEC, Birmingham and run for nine days until Sunday 6 December 6, with four halls jam-packed with features that will see modern motorcycling come to life. Top of every visitor’s list is new metal and…
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Cool concept BMW ‘Lightburner’ sketch is reeeaal purty!
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We like this. A lot. Oberdan Bezzi is a designer who’s worked for a lot of major places in motorcycling and he’s been doing some designs for ‘concept’ ideas. This one, the BMW S1000 Lightburner looks amazing to us. According to Bezzi’s blog, the bike is based around the S1000R but sits on a tiny…
