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Oh good gravy… Bonneville has been cancelled! Again!
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A month ago the Bonneville Speed Week event was cancelled, last week the Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials were back on with ‘a tentative go’ – this week the latest news from the salty land is that everything is finally off. After loads of to-ing and fro-ing there will now not be any motorcycle speed records…
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Guy Martin now back at home and recovering from broken back
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Great news everyone. Guy Martin is now back at home and beginning the long recovery road after breaking his back at the Dundrod 150 road race last week. Guy traveled back to Lincolnshire with his dad, Ian, and girlfriend Sharon Comiskey yesterday and arrived at home in the evening. He broke his back, sternum and…
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Exclusive 1000cc V8 Drysdale nicked
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So what do you do with an almost-unique, hand-built, super-exclusive 1000cc V8 motorcycle – once you’ve stolen it? There are some pretty dumb bike thieves out there, but we’ve got contenders for the top spot here. Not long after the electric, one-off American Victory/Brammo podium TT electric was stolen (a motorcycle that you wouldn’t…
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SCOOP Project Gemini – trick, 160bhp Speed Triples revealed
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How do you like these Triumph triple specials? Limited to just 100 custom Speed Triples, these are some of the designs for Project Gemini. Made by T3 Racing and Kevin Taggart, Spirit of the Seventies designer, the bikes are more than just a tweak of the cosmetics. The bikes front suspension gets a revamp, with the new…
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VIDEO Scramblers in the Rockies. GREAT film with Ducati and Triumph.
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Our good friends at Motorcyclist magazine have made a great video where they shun the big Adventure bikes for two modern-take scramblers and head out for some dirt fun. We love this, and we like that the guys went and did it in a country where you really can do some serious off-roading in…
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SCOOP AWESOME KTM/RD350 special built by kid in India
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Now THIS is what we want to have a go on next – this absolutely gorgeous mash-up between a KTM Duke 390 and a Yamaha RD350. This special has been built in India by Aseem Singh Pawar and is officially called the RD-Duke. Pawar (pictured below) lovingly calls his bike the ‘Flying Sikh’ and has done…
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SCOOP Atlantic Metals buys up Erik Buell Racing for $2.25m
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The second half of the deal over Erik Buell Racing has now gone through after an auction yesterday – in which Altlantic Metals acquired all of EBR’s bike-making equipment. That means the machines, parts, tools and associated bits and parts of EBR PLUS the company’s trademarks, patents and databases are now owned by the American…
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Massive fire guts Fantic site and destroys bikes
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A fire has swept through the Fantic production sheds at Treviso in Italy leaving bikes and machinery destroyed and causing a million Euros of damage. The fire broke out around midnight on Wednesday August 5, ten fire engines attended the blaze with the first unit arriving on site at 1.15am. According to reports, the majority…
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Hot rumour’s from Ducati sources: 899 ‘S’ instead of new Streetfighter 1299
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Hot rumours today about the Ducati 2016 line-up which are largely centering around a 899 ‘S’ type model Panigale. The grumbles about the bike are coming from America and they are virtually rubbishing the recent gossip-mongering elsewhere that claimed we could be about to see a 1299-based Streetfighter launched by Ducati. Those rumours of the…
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SCOOP Video Yamaha’s MT-09-powered super sand buggy wotsit nearly here
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Do you fancy a four-wheeled, super sand buggy type racer from Yamaha – powered by the firm’s three-cylinder MT-09 engine? Yeah, we wouldn’t mind a blat in it too. And looking at this very funky video released by the Japanese factory, it’s going to be with us by the start of next month. …
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