Cruisers
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Oh boy! Yamaha’s plans for an XSR300 (the NEW RD350 retro) revealed in Japanese magazine!
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Oh boy! Yamaha’s plans for an XSR300 (the NEW RD350 retro) revealed in Japanese magazine! Here’s a story from our friends in Japan that’s going to get the motorcycle world hopping around in New Year excitement – a return of the RD350! Kind of! What this story surrounds is news from our friends at Japanese…
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Amazing custom boxers from Japan
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Japanese custom shop Ritmo Sereno specialises in boxer engines, and has built an impressive portfolio of custom BMWs, Moto Guzzis and BSAs. There’s plenty more custom goodness on their website, but here are a couple of particularly nice examples of their work.
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Video: RSD X Indian Hooligan does a riverbed jump
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We’ll let you make your own mind up about this – this is a video from stage diver and bike builder Roland Sands (look through our previous pages to see him ride this bike off a stage! Superstar!) that shows his Indian Sportster special Hooligan bike doing some stuff. The bike weighs nearly 220kg and…
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OK, weird: This is a motorcycle with the bodywork made of STONE. Yeah, stone.
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OK, weird: This is a motorcycle with the bodywork made of STONE. Yeah, stone. What a time to be alive! We have bikes from both BMW and Ducati with Carbon chassis, wheels and component parts – the products of companies striving to take things to the lightest form possible – and now we have this!…
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Suzuki Turbo AND Supercharged AND big-twin 2016 patents wrap-up
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It’s been over a year since we brought you the scoop on those Suzuki patents showing the firm’s plans for a turbo, supercharged and new big-twin for 2017 (possibly). So we thought we’d remind you of what’s coming. On July 6 2015, we were the first to bring you these production drawings of the Suzuki…
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Sweet special: This is a Yamaha MT-03. Yep. Looks brilliant.
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Sweet special: This is a Yamaha MT-03. Yep. Looks brilliant. Check out this super sweet MT-03 special dirt-tracker. Built by German custom house Kingston Customs the bike is essentially the same MT-03 in terms of engine and major components but what KC has done has really made a difference. The special gets semi-knobbly tyres, a…
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Launch ride: Triumph Bonneville Bobber
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WORDS: John Milbank, editor of Motorcycle Sport & Leisure magazine PHOTOGRAPHY: Triumph It seems I’m the only person in the UK who didn’t really like the Bobber when it was launched. In photos I thought it looked too bulky at the front. Even in the metal at Motorcycle Live I wasn’t impressed. This was a…
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The world’s first Benelli tnt Panigale 899…
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The world’s first Benelli tnt Panigale 899… Check out this superb home-built special from the guys at MotoSaigon.vn. Underneath the flashy outer is a Benelli tnt300 but at first glance most people would take this roadster for a full-on 899cc Ducati Panigale. Of course, things like swingarm, shock, brakes etc give the game away…
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Indian recalling thousands of bikes after potential fuel leak discovered
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Indian recalling thousands of bikes after potential fuel leak discovered. Indian is recalling seven models from its range after discovering a potential for a fuel leak with a fuel rail fitted to its bikes. The company has not yet made an announcement about UK models, but we do know that bikes in both American and…
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Spy Shots: Royal Enfield Conti test bike out on the road
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Spy Shots: Royal Enfield Conti test bike out on the road. This is the 2017/18 Royal Enfield Continental GT out in final on-the-road consumption testing. Or pictures are from the same location that gave us the first look at the KTM 800 Enduro (which they’ll call the 790… natch) last week – and as a…
