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SCOOP: New 400cc retro-style, fuel injected Scrambler for £4k-ish
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Mash is bringing out this new, retro-style scrambler which will be on sale in September. The 400 Scrambler will be biek model number 12 in the Mash range and uses the four-year old firm’s four cylinder, 400cc bike which will put out 27.6bhp @ 7000rpm, the bike will have a 790mm seat height and…
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Gorgeous new paint on MV Agusta F4RR
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Check out these new paintschemes on the MV Agusta F4RR – they’re gorgeous. There’s not much more to say other than these schemes are part of a limited range of the RR which are effectively WSB spec (almost) bikes with full-on factory Arrow pipes and the whole shebang. Lovely stuff.
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SCOOP: Side on image of 2016 GSX-R1000R from Japanese journos
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We’ve been sent this – OK, not that good quality, but it’s the inside pages of that Suzuki GSX-R1000R article by Young Machine in Japan. Now, these are the Japanese journos and test riders who have a finger right on the pulse of Suzuki’s going on and this is what they say the new…
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Erik Buell Racing ‘acquired’ by Indian company Hero for $2.8m
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The ongoing saga of Erik Buell Racing continues with news that the Hero MotoCorp Ltd (HMCL) filing with the Bombay Stock Exchange that it has agreed a settlement with Erik Buell Racing which has the American segment of HMCL acquire a ‘project’ from EBR for a fee of $2.8 million. Buell had been working on…
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SCOOP: Indian to bring back the flat-tracker glory!
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Indian is building a pure-bred, road legal flat-track style motorcycle that will race on the Mile and Half Mile tracks in America by late 2016 or early 2017. There are no official sources to quite this claim from at the moment, but according to a flat-track source, Polaris Industries – the company that owns the…
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VIDEO: BMW S1000RR big screen action from M:I film. Uber cool.
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That there new Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation film that’s out now (or soon, depending on where you are) has some real nice BMW S1000RR action in it. Here’s a rather jolly nice clip from the film that makes cool bikes look even cooler. Nicely done, Mr Cruise – you talented sod. https://youtu.be/ha-MGEXS81k
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SCOOP: Royal Enfield Himalayan pre-prod bikes spotted
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Yep, we quite like this too. These are the Royal Enfield Himalayan pre-production bikes out testing. Expect the bike late this year, to be revealed at the EICMA show. They won’t be fast, or tech-laden but we think that this might just neatly slot into the custom-retro-adventure world very nicely indeed.
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VIDEO: First Victory electric production bike (TT podium bike for the road)
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Victory has launched the Empulse TT, which is a production electric motorcycle built around the same platform as the Brammo TT bike that bagged a podium in this year’s TT Zero race. Heres’ what Victory is saying about the bike (basically, this is what you want to know about charge times, range etc): The Victory…
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All Year Biker: Cleaning with meaning
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By Chris Moss A lot of us aren’t fans of cleaning our bikes. All Year Biker is though. And they have a specific treatment plan to remedy years of neglect. Keeping a motorcycle clean and in good cosmetic shape can be quite a science. Doing it really well requires the correct procedures and appropriate…
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SCOOP: Kawasaki’s new supercharged bike on the way
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Kawasaki has just published patents for this – another supercharged bike. The patent is surprisingly sparce on details but what it does show is that this is a unit different in design to that used on the awesome H2R hyperbike. Now, Kawasaki has made no secret of the fact that this supercharging tech is likely…
