Touring Bikes
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First look: Erik Buell’s ‘new’ bike – the Black Lightning – gets revealed a few days before its launch
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First look: Erik Buell’s ‘new’ bike – the Black Lightning gets revealed a few days before its launch. When Erik Buell Racing (EBR) announced a couple of months ago that his company would be launching a new Black Lightning there was much wringing of hands and awaiting of something a bit ground breaking from the…
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Honda’s GTR Adventure appears as official Honda special at motorcycle show… hmmm…
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Honda’s GTR Adventure appears as official Honda special at motorcycle show… hmmm… Whilst Eicma eyes were on the X-ADV adventure scooter (below) thing from Honda there has been something else happening in the ‘adventure scooter on stilts’ market elsewhere – and this bike also comes from Honda. It’s called the GTR Adventure. Originally first shown…
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Milan show: BMW mini-adventurer G 310 GS officially revealed
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BMW’s much-anticipated small-capacity adventurer, the G 310 GS, has finally been officially unveiled at the EICMA show in Milan. The mini-adventurer is powered by a 313cc water-cooled, single-cylinder four-stroke engine, with four valves, two overhead camshafts and finger followers, and wet sump lubrication. The same engine is already in place in the G 310 R…
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Milan show: Latest reincarnation of BMW R1200GS officially revealed
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BMW has updated the most popular travel enduro bike in the world, the R1200GS. With the update, BMW has introduced styling packages to the GS range. Customers can now give a BMW GS a more marked touch of enduro or distinguished style to suit its preferred area of use by ordering the style packages Rallye…
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Milan show: BMW updates the K 1600 GTL tourer
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BMW has updated its big tourer, the K 1600 GTL, to meet the new Euro 4 emissions requirements. The six-cylinder mile-muncher has a maximum power output of 160bhp and 175Nm of torque. The bike comes standard with ABS Pro, Dynamic Traction Control DTC, xenon headlamp, grip and seat heating, multi-controller, three riding modes, cruise control…
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Milan show: BMW revises the F 800 R and F 800 GT
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BMW has revised the F 800 R roadster and the sports touring bike F800 GT. The water-cooled two-cylinder in-line engine with a capacity of 798cc remains unchanged, with an output of 90bhp at 8,000rpm. While the sporty roadster F800R has a chain as secondary drive, the F800GT has a toothed belt, geared towards lengthier motorcycle…
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Milan show: Ducati’s smallest Multistrada revealed
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Ducati has added a new 937cc Multistrada to its ‘multibike’ range. The new bike features a Testastretta engine, which delivers 113bhp at 9,000rpm and a maximum torque of 96.2Nm at 7,750rpm. The Multistrada 950 sports a 19-inch front wheel, seat height of 840mm and a 20-litre tank. The bike also has all the looks of…
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Benelli to launch this gorgeous TRK 502 at Milan next week! Look at this thing! And it’s a 500cc bike!
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Benelli to launch this gorgeous TRK 502 at Milan next week! Look at this thing! And it’s a 500cc bike! This is the Benelli TRK 502 2017 production motorcycle that is going to be officially released at next week’s Eicma show in Milan, Italy. The bike was first shown a clear year ago at last…
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Secret drawings show future Suzuki Bandit – big changes on the way to make the bike even better!
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We’ve been sent these secret patent designs from inside Suzuki that show what the next generation of the big Suzuki Bandit is going to look like – and there are two big differences from the existing model. Yep, we agree with you that at first glance of the side-on illustration and on the front-view of…
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Launch ride: Kawasaki Z1000SX
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The same, but different Looks familiar? It should do. This 2017 version of Kawasaki’s hugely successful Z1000SX mirrors its predecessor in more ways than there’s space to write about, with key crossovers including the last model’s frame, engine, wheels and much more. So what’s new? Well, quite a bit was the message during the model’s…
