Retro Classic
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Suzuki launches SV650 Scrambler (Sorry, France only)
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The good news is that Suzuki has launched a cool new SV650 Scrambler. The bad news is that at the moment it’s available in France only. The bike looks great with the little fly screen, raised handlebars, headlight guard and the short mud guard at the front. The Scrambler treatment continues at the rear where…
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Launch ride: Triumph Bonneville Bobber
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WORDS: John Milbank, editor of Motorcycle Sport & Leisure magazine PHOTOGRAPHY: Triumph It seems I’m the only person in the UK who didn’t really like the Bobber when it was launched. In photos I thought it looked too bulky at the front. Even in the metal at Motorcycle Live I wasn’t impressed. This was a…
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Spy Shots: Royal Enfield Conti test bike out on the road
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Spy Shots: Royal Enfield Conti test bike out on the road. This is the 2017/18 Royal Enfield Continental GT out in final on-the-road consumption testing. Or pictures are from the same location that gave us the first look at the KTM 800 Enduro (which they’ll call the 790… natch) last week – and as a…
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Bezzi’s been at it again – this time he’s drawn up a pretty sweet JAWA Californian 351 concept
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Last week, we brought you bike designer Oberdan Bezzi’s concept art for the new BSA (we’ve put that at the bottom of the article here so that you can see it again). This week there’s another ‘fantasy’ – we think it’s pretty accurate in terms of what we will see heading out to the emerging…
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Launch ride: Triumph Bonneville T100
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It was only a matter of time until this happened. As popular as the Bonneville range has been, what Triumph could really do with was a smaller capacity machine, one that’s suitable for new riders, even those on restricted licences. So, the T100 was a no-brainer really: take the 900cc engine from the Street Twin,…
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Designer Bezzi’s BSA 355 sketch is proper tasty!
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Designer Bezzi’s BSA 355 sketch is proper tasty! We like this – but it’s proper pie-in-the-sky stuff. This is a ‘concept’ design sketch (a bit of wishful thinking, in other words) by motorcycle designer and pretty darn good scribbler, Oberdan Bezzi. Following the news some time ago that BSA was coming under the financial Pheonix…
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Video: AWESOME video on how to drift a trick ER6-n cafe racer AND a Nissan
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Video: AWESOME video on how to drift a trick ER6-n cafe racer AND a Nissan. Check out this awesome video from our friends at the French mag Moto Journal. It’s a masterclass in the art of sliding two and four wheels. It’s all in French but has english subtitles so it’s easy enough to follow.…
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The world’s most gorgeous G310R so far (it’s a work of street tracker art)
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The world’s most gorgeous G310R so far (it’s a work of street tracker art). So this motorcycle has really taken our breath away this morning – it’s a street tracker one-off made by the exquisitely-detail obsessed Wedge Motorcycles from Tokyo. Although these images were punted out by BMW Motorrad Japan there’s no suggestion that this…
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Ducati UK announces average 4.8 % price increase from the 1st January 2017 (so if you’re buying, get in at Motorcycle Live! from TOMORROW)
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Ducati UK announces average 4.8 % price increase from the 1st January 2017. Following the announcement of prices for the new 2017 models unveiled recently at EICMA, Ducati UK has just announced that a price increase on the remainder of the Ducati and Ducati Scrambler ranges is happening. That means that, as a rough…
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Video: Motorcycle Live! A 2017 thing to see: BMW’s R nineT Pure, Racer and Urban G/S
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If you like the retro feel and want the BMW ease-of-use-tech-touch then check out these three absolute stunners at the NEC next week. If you fancy a bit of old-school roadster then there’s the 2017 Pure option, for café racers it’s the… err… Racer take and for the even more retro Adventure bike fan there’s…
