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Hot gossip: New Ducati motor to power super-multistrada
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There’s a hot rumour today that Ducati has built a new large capacity engine for new models that will start to appear in the firm’s 2016 range. According to factory insiders, the motor will have Ducati Variable Timing (DVT) and will be put into a new sport-touring bike. We’ve got no more on this motor…
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SCOOP: Mega monkey bike designs surface
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This is the cad cam design that shows the next bike to come from CFMoto – and it shows that the Chinese firm thinks that the super-Monkey bike styling is the way to go. Based around a 125 or 150cc air-cooled motor this bike is all new. The firm also announced that recent designs…
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New 250 Adventure bike breaks cover
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What do you reckon to this new tourer then? It might look like your everyday big adventure bike but the reality is that this is a 250cc adventure bike – and it’s now on sale. Made by Chinese firm Aeon and sold under the name Overbikes, the Tourer 250 has a single-cylinder with fuel-injection and…
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Stolen TT Victory bike recovered from thief’s house
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The Victory electric TT podium finishing race bike has been found having been stolen from the firm’s headquarters at the weekend. The bike that Irishman Lee Johnston rode to the podium in the Isle of Man TT Zero race event in June has been returned to Brammo Headquarters in Talent, Oregon after police tracked the machine…
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Fancy buying Chris Pratt’s Jurassic World Scrambler?
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On 23rd July Triumph Motorcycles will auction the iconic Scrambler ridden by Chris Pratt in the global summer blockbuster film, Jurassic World. The bespoke bike, featured racing alongside Raptors in the film, will be sold by eBay to the highest bidder, with the proceeds going to Triumph’s nominated fundraising partner, The Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride. Three…
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Video: AMAZING riding over Romaniacs course. Watch this!
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This is AWESOMELY good. What we have here is an on-board with Alfredo Gomez during the Prolog of this year’s Romaniacs super-enduro round. It’s mental. And jaw-dropping. Watch the video and realise that, to some, physics and fear don’t apply. And if your mate at work who doesn’t ride watches this and tells you it’s…
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Meet ‘Zecoo’. The world’s funkiest electric bike (and it’s real)
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Normally, we’re not so bowled over by one-off electric scooters – but then, every now and then, we see one that looks like this. This is called the ‘Zecoo’ (urgh) and is built in Japan by a group calling themselves Kota Nezu. We don’t know that much about this bike at the moment other than…
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KTM issues recall on 2014 1290 Super Duke
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KTM has issued a recall of the 2014 1290 Super Duke because of fears that the bike’s petrol tank could leak fuel. The announcement has been made in various markets around the world, because the tank construction was outsourced the factory says that it can be sure that the issue is only applicable to…
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Supercharged Honda super-commuter on the way
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Just in case anyone out there is still unsure of where modern motorcycling is heading then here’s ANOTHER supercharged motorcycle in the pipeline. Honda has released a patent for a (effectively) NC700X supercharged bike. In the patents the supercharger, intercooler and other bolt-ons are mounted in the space within the dummy fuel tank – which…
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Three old BMWs into one gets you a nitrous hound
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We love this bike, as much for what it was (and now is) as for how funky it has ended up. This was a BMW R80 RT from the late 1980s, even better is that this was a POLICE BMW R80 RT from the late 1980s! The bike still carried its original blue…
