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Customised your Triumph? WIN the chance to have your bike on display at The Bike Shed Show 2017!
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If you’ve got an interesting post-2011 Triumph custom and would like to enter the competition, all you’ve got to do is post a photo of your bike on the Triumph UK Facebook page with a brief description of its modifications, and why you’ve made them. https://www.facebook.com/OfficialTriumphUK/videos/10155274117032625/ If you win, your bike will be displayed on…
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Launch report: Yamaha XSR900 Abarth
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“This’d be fantastic around Cadwell,” exclaimed one journo as he jumped off the XSR900 Abarth. He’s right, but it’s a shame I found it so uncomfortable on the tight twisting roads of Sardinia where we were riding it. To be fair, I was the only one who didn’t seem enamoured with the limited-edition…
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3D printed Italian Volt Lacama electric bike!
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Italian Volt has created the Lacama – a customisable electric motorcycle made from 3D printed parts that can go from 0 to 62 mph in 4.2 seconds, and can be charged in just 40 minutes. The new bike, which is built with 3D printed bodywork and high-end performance parts, including Brembo brakes and Ohlins suspension…
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Ex-racer sells TT trophy to fund Ferrari-powered motorcycles!
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With a relatively successful racing career behind him, including a Canadian National Championship and an Isle of Man TT podium, former racer Andreas Georgeades decided to hang up his leathers and pursue his passion of squeezing powerful car engines into custom built motorcycles. Between 1978 and 1998, Andreas built three Ferrari powered custom motorcycles. Two…
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Launch report: Yamaha SCR950
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Yamaha’s SCR950 is hampered by its marketing. Described as being: “Inspired by the street scramblers of the 1960s,” many journalists’ default position will be to thrust it straight into a pigeon-hole already swollen with the likes of Ducati’s Scrambler, Triumph’s Street Scrambler and BMW’s R-nine-T Scrambler. I’d consider the XSR700 to have more potential to…
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Launch ride: 2017 KTM 1290 Super Adventure S
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The 1290 Super Adventure S is a hybrid. KTM has taken the more compact form of the 1190 Adventure, filled it with the 1290’s, 1301cc 158bhp motor, and reduced the tank size from 30 to 23 litres. And then it dropped the 1190 from the range. The rethink makes sense – the £10,999 1050 was…
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MotoGP boss shock reveal: We’re going to run electric bikes in 2019 and it will be MotoGP teams vs Moto2!
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MotoGP boss Carmelo Ezpeleta has made a huge announcement that the MotoGP championship is getting its own electric bike race series that will see MotoGP teams and Moto2 teams line up against each other. And it’ll happen in just two year’s time! Ezpeleta said: “We are going to do some electric races soon. It will…
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Launch ride: 2017 Yamaha MT-10 SP & Tourer Edition
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Yamaha’s MT-10 is a stunning machine. Launched last year, the company was keen to stress that it wasn’t ‘just’ an R1 with wide bars, though given the fact that it uses the hyper-sports bike’s frame, swingarm, suspension and headlights, not to mention many of the crossplane crank motor’s main parts, you’d be forgiven for thinking…
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Meet the Ducati Panigale R Cafe Racer – ‘The Blue Shark’
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You all know the 2016 Ducati Panigale R pretty well. Out last year, and costing just shy of £30,000 – the Panigale R is pretty much state of the art as far as buyable Ducatis go… Now, imagine cutting one up and making this…’The Blue Shark’. In 2016, this bike rolled straight off the Ducati…
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Video: Triumph Street Cup
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Triumph seems to be taking the task of attracting new people into motorcycling very seriously. Only days after the launch of the new Street Triples – a family of bikes that includes not only the 765cc inline triples, but also a dedicated 660cc version that can be restricted for A2 licence-holders – I was in…
