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Six FREE opportunities to ride a bike at Motorcycle Live this year
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The cold weather creeping in might mean the end of the summer motorcycling season, but every cloud has a silver lining and for many bike fans across the UK, that silver lining is Motorcycle Live. This year’s show will open its doors at The NEC, Birmingham on Saturday 28 November and run at full revs…
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Suzuki to restore original GSX-R750 at Motorcycle Live
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Suzuki will again be providing one of the main attractions at this year’s Motorcycle Live, with the restoration of an original GSX-R750F on its stand over the course of the show. As part of the 30th anniversary celebrations of the iconic range of sportsbikes, which will also see a display of some of the classic…
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VIDEO Ducati Diavel Carbon 2016 in action
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Here’s a little promo video of the new-for-2016 Ducati Diavel Carbon in action. There’s not much to the bike in reality, it’s a largely cosmetic exercise with a new seat unit and exhaust to keep the interest in the ‘dark’ range of the muscley-cruiser going. But it’s a nice video to watch, all the…
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Sam Lowes signs three-year Aprilia MotoGP deal
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Sam Lowes has signed a three-year MotoGP contract with Aprilia Racing, including a one-year Moto2 deal with Team Federal Oil Gresini Moto2. The 24-year-old is will contest the Moto2 World Championship next season, before graduating to the premier class for the 2017 and 2018 seasons. Sam said: “I would like to thank Aprilia Racing and Gresini…
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Lowes and Guintoli with Yamaha for WSB return in 2016
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Yamaha has announced that it will return to WSB next year as an official squad being run out of the British Crescent racing base. It has signed battling Brit, 2013 BSB Champion Alex Lowes and 2014 World Superbike champion Sylvain Guintoli to ride the R1 superbike in the championship. Here’s what Yamaha itself said about…
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SCOOP Supercharged er-6f Ninja S2 claims made in Japan for next year
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In July we brought you the patent drawings that showed Kawasaki’s plans for a NEW supercharged motorcycle with a new supercharging unit very different to the one bolted to the H2R hypercycle. Last night this image (above) appeared in the Japanese press, showing what appears to be a supercharged version of the Kawasaki er-6f with…
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Honda’s CBR250RR – supercharged weapon on the way?
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Honda’s much-wanted CBR250RR is the rumoured-bike that seems to be refusing to go away and this month there’s a raft of even more rumours about the screaming quarter-litre bike appearing in next year. As you’d expect, the little sportster is far more track-oriented than any of the road-based, easy-going motorcycles we’ve seen recently from…
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Yamaha’s FZ1 Fazer replacement – mock up image has R1 styling
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Japanese magazine Young Machine has fired this into the mix with it’s latest issue, a mock up of the new FZ1 Fazer. We’ve know that the big Fazer is coming from Yamaha for some time, but the bike builder has an issue of how to pitch the bike to an audience in such a way…
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SCOOP Three wheel Gold Wing and MT-09 off-road trike touted by Japanese
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Three wheel Gold Wing AND MT-09 off-road trike touted by Japanese. Japanese magazine Young machine has had its crystal ball out and is predicting many futures for the upcoming raft of motorcycle fun including TWO three-wheelers which will definitely cause speculation amongst European riders. According to the latest issue of the magazine, Yamaha is going…
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VIDEO mega onboard in super extreme enduro race
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VIDEO mega onboard in super extreme enduro race! This will melt your motorcycling mind… Onboard with the Xtreme XL de Lagares event in Spain last week, this is what you call Urban Hard Enduro Racing. As if just riding around this sort of stuff isn’t hard enough, the Red Bull boys thought that they’d forget…
