Touring Bikes

  • Intermot show: Moto Guzzi’s 2017 Audace Carbon cruiser is launched

    Intermot show: Moto Guzzi’s 2017 Audace Carbon cruiser is launched

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      Intermot show: Moto Guzzi’s 2017 Audace Carbon cruiser is launched. Moto Guzzi has just launched this – the Audace Carbon cruiser at the Intermot Show in Germany. The bike is pretty much the same as previous models of the Audace but it does now get the firm’s new cruise control mated to the 90…

  • 2017 Kawasaki Versys 1000 REVEALED. Colours and a dash change

    2017 Kawasaki Versys 1000 REVEALED. Colours and a dash change

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    2017 Kawasaki Versys 1000 REVEALED. Colours and a dash change Here’s the 2017 Kawasaki Versys 1000 in first-look pictures ahead of the official launch. For next year the big sport tourer isn’t getting much in the way of mechanical changes it would seem – but what it does get is a new cosmetic touch with…

  • My bike: 2014 Yamaha Super Ténéré

    My bike: 2014 Yamaha Super Ténéré

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    60-year-old semi-retired teacher Hugh Fuller shares his experience of Yamaha’s adventure bike…   I’ve been riding since I was 16 (on a stripped down Honda fifty), and now ride around four to five thousand miles a year. I don’t own any other bikes now, but have put 9600 on the Super Ten, which I bought…

  • Ducati’s 2017 Monster 821, Multistrada 1200S and Panigale 1299 revealed

    Ducati’s 2017 Monster 821, Multistrada 1200S and Panigale 1299 revealed

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    Ducati’s 2017 Monster 821, Multistrada 1200S and Panigale 1299 revealed. Here’s the first look at the 2017 ‘Volcano Grey’ Ducati Multistrada 1200S, the 2017 Monster 821 with the new Euro 4 motor and the 1299 Panigale that is coming with the factory’s DTC EVO and DWC EVO features. We’ve already shown you the SuperSport teaser…

  • REVEALED: Suzuki’s V-Strom future suspension plans unveiled in factory drawings!

    REVEALED: Suzuki’s V-Strom future suspension plans unveiled in factory drawings!

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    Suzuki is reportedly developing a self-adjusting suspension system that alters stiffness and damping according to the load being carried. And, according to an article in the Australian publication AMCN, the system is likely to go on the firm’s V-Strom 1000. Suzuki’s plans have emerged on an illustration of the big roadster. In the description you…

  • BMW launches FIRST airbag textile jacket packed with Alpinestars MotoGP tech!

    BMW launches FIRST airbag textile jacket packed with Alpinestars MotoGP tech!

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    BMW Motorrad is launching the BMW Motorrad Street Air by Alpinestars, an advanced airbag system built into a jacket similar to the tech used by MotoGP stars. Adopted from the current Alpinestars Tech-Air street airbag system – a set-up needing no motorbike-mounted sensors – the kit uses a sophisticated algorithm that detects imminent danger and…

  • Super Tenere goes all black and Yamaha blue for next year

    Super Tenere goes all black and Yamaha blue for next year

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    It’s two new colours for Yamaha’s XT1200Z/ZE Super Tenere bikes come 2017 and those are the new Yamaha Blue and Tech Black ranges. Here’s how the bikes are going to look come the new year:

  • 2017 Yamaha MT-07 goes white, blue and funky grey for 2017. Pictures here

    2017 Yamaha MT-07 goes white, blue and funky grey for 2017. Pictures here

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    In the Hyper Naked class for 2017, Yamaha’s ever-popular MT-07 is getting THREE new colours which will run alongside the continuing Night Fluo scheme. The news colours are: Tech Black, Yamaha Blue and Compeition White. Along with the updated Night Fluo scheme, here they are:  

  • EXPOSED: 2017 BMW K1600GT’s next generation secrets

    EXPOSED: 2017 BMW K1600GT’s next generation secrets

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    We’ve been seeing the next generation BMW K1600GT doing the testing ’rounds’ for a while now and ahead of the launch of the bike at the upcoming motorcycle show at Intermot, Germany, details have come in from our friends abroad about the big tourer. Essentially the big tourer is staying at the same power, little…

  • Inside designs! Honda’s Duolever Gold Wing CONFIRMED in legal documents!

    Inside designs! Honda’s Duolever Gold Wing CONFIRMED in legal documents!

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    Honda has just filed a batch of final designs for the upcoming 2017 Gold Wing – and even though the subject matter of the designs are just for very large air scoops in the mudguard, there’s another secret that we can see in the drawings which confirms our world first article from a year ago.…

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