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VIDEO: Roland Sands two-stroke attack
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Here’s a bit of good old two-stoke action to start your week out right. The video is from Roland Sands Design and this time the legendary bike builder has combined a 1974 vintage Yamaha RD 400 motor with a 1997 TZ chassis. The end result features lots of parts from Roland’s own stock pile as…
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Pictures: Moto Guzzi enduro custom
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Moto Guzzi produces stylish bikes as standard, but this one-off custom bike caught our eye as something a bit special. It’s based on Moto Guzzi V50 and features the iconic V-twin engine, but most of the rest has been modified to turn this into a proper enduro bike. The results are pretty impressive. Here’s all…
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Triumph Street Twin store launch
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Triumph has announced that Thursday 11th February 2016 is the day for the national store launch of the Hinckley firm’s all-new Street Twin. The first of the 2016 Bonneville range to hit dealerships, the 900cc model has already attracted rave media reviews, including our Triumph Street Twin video review. With an official unveiling, special…
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VIDEO: Indian’s Hooligan Racers going full-on in a warehouse in San Pedro (yep, it’s cool)
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Check out this latest video from bike tweaker Roland Sands. It features the new Indian Scout Sixty and RS’ Hooligan Racers. Filmed at an event put on by Indian Motorcycles in the States, this was the debut of the 2016 new bikes. Riders got to stretch the bike’s legs in a warehouse down by the…
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VIDEO: GSX-R burnout in someone’s kitchen… yum!
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Now here’s a video to put a smile on your face – it’s utterly pointless but good fun. We know nothing about it, other than it’s been posted by a guy calling himself Maniac Motorcycle and shows a GSX-R doing a full-on burnout in someone’s kitchen. The revs rise and the wheel spins and…
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SCOOP: BMW concepts for motorcycle laser light and helmet with head-up display
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BMW Motorrad has just announced that it will be displaying two innovations at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas on 6-9 January 2016. Laser light for motorcycles and a helmet with a head-up display will be presented, setting new standards of motorcycle safety, along with a technical outlook of how they may be…
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SCOOP: Order details for new Blade hint at new name for Honda’s updated superbike
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An importer in Indonesia has left part of a manifest form open for long enough to get photographed, and it shows a new code name for a top-end version of the 2016 Fireblade. On the order form – placed on December 30 – the bike is called the CBR10. We’ve been told that this is…
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Dakar rally on 125cc bike? Can it be done?
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As if the Dakar rally was not hard enough. How about doing it on a Husqvarna TE 125 Rally? Sylvain Espinasse from the Auvergne region of France has taken on a mammoth challenge by competing in the Dakar 2016 on a Husqvarna TE 125 Rally. The rally itself is one of the toughest competitions in…
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SCOOP: Updated livery for 2016 Royal Enfield range leaked before launch
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The updated livery for 2016 Royal Enfield bikes has been leaked before the official launch. This is according to sources in India where the bikes are produced, and we have the annotated images to show you exactly what’s new. For 2016 Royal Enfield will be updating the colours and graphics of the Classic, Electra and…
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SCOOP: Kawasaki’s hot Ninja 250RR – another image appears overnight
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Another image of the coming Ninja 250 (also being called the Ninja25RR – which we much prefer as a name for this sort of thing) has surfaced overnight. It’s just a computer-generated image based on details coming out of Japan, and doesn’t show anything more than we already now – but in terms of…
