Cruisers
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Gorgeous Brutale-based special unveiled by top bike builder
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Check out this incredible special made by American Walt Siegl, it’s a half-way house between the current trend for retro-styled cafe racers and full-on sportsbikes. Based around the Brutale 800, the new 3-cylinder motor is mated to a trellis chassis. There’s a lot of engineering going into and around the motor too, as Siegl…
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Oi, Buell… this is what you should be making next!
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This is specials builder David Sanchez’ pretty awesome re-working of a Buell XB12SS, and it’s an easy bolt-on batch of kits that anyone can do in a pretty short period of time. Called the BOTT XC1, this is the second bike that Sanchez’ company Bottpower has worked on from Buell (the first was the XR1…
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VIDEO: World launch review Triumph Bonneville Street Twin
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We’ve been out on the world launch of the Triumph Bonneville Street Twin and here’s out launch video of what the bike’s like to ride. The 900cc motorcycle is all-new for 2016 and is pitched towards the easier-riding end of the range. It’s not bristling with tech but it does have a terrific chassis and…
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Victory Motorcycles reveals last 1200cc concept series bike
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This concept, called ‘Combustion’, is powered by the new production engine that made its debut last month at EICMA in Milan, and was built by Zach Ness of Arlen Ness Motorcycles in Dublin, California. It’s the unit that powered the Project 156 Pikes Peak project motorcycle seen earlier this year. “Our family has a long-standing…
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SCOOP: Meet the KTM 1290 Super Enduro – 180bhp in a 180kg enduro nutter chassis!
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OK, so what do you do if the quite frankly awesome KTM 1290 Super Duke R isn’t enough of a wonderful mad thing for you? How about this… This is enduro loon Jiri Heinik’s brainchild, a KTM 1290 Super Enduro – a cross between the KTM 1290 Super Duke R and the KTM 1290 Super…
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£7,300 for Triumph’s Street Twin on the road – and 22% more power!
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Triumph has announced the price and power figures for its pretty Street Twin – and the new bike is seriously up on output compared to the old 900cc Bonnie in the range. The Street runs with the firm’s ‘High Torque’ motor and makes 54bhp @ 5,900rpm. That’s 22% more power than the old bike. The…
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SCOOP: Ducati’s new 2016 Scrambler special project ‘Sunglasses Edition’ revealed
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Check out this special Ducati Scrambler, the first factory product to come out of a three-year-long collaboration with Italian fashion label Italia Independent. The bike was revealed at the Art Basel festival in Miami yesterday. Basically, this bike is a re-styled Scrambler with most of the components finished in matt black, underslung mirrors, lower bars…
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Honda’s ‘other’ concept CB500F breaks cover in Bangkok
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Honda has shown this concept Scrambler at the Bangkok Motor Show. We’ve seen similar-looking concepts from Honda over the past few weeks but this is a tweaked update on those. There’s no information on it from the show directly, so what we show you with this punter’s pic is pretty much what we know. The…
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Kawasaki unveils awesome Vulcan S Cafe Racer at Paris Show
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Check out this incredible cafe racer on display at the Paris Motorcycle Show, currently happening in France. The bike is, essentially, a stripped-down version of the 2016 Kawasaki Vulan S. The mid-sized cruiser has lost loads of bulk, bodywork and sub frame for the special, on the Kawasaki stand. The load stubby under-can and hand-painted…
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Triumph launches Fast Track priority order scheme at Motorcycle Live
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Triumph launches Fast Track priority order scheme at Motorcycle Live. Since launching its 2016 Bonneville range in London last month, interest for Triumph’s five new classic models has continued to soar. The range includes the Street Twin, T120 and T120 Black and the reborn café racers – the Thruxton and Thruxton R. To give…
