Scooters
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Video: An Italian blast on a souped-up Vespa
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Video: An Italian blast on a souped-up Vespa Check out this screaming onboard video of a Vespa 50 Special 130 being given the berries by Italian scooterman Nicola Pellistri. It’s a video that appeared last year so it’s not new, but we like it all the same. So far, so normal about this sort of…
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Honda’s hybrid-powered scooter plans for 2017 appear
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Honda’s hybrid-powered scooter plans for 2017 appear. This is Honda’s latest design for its upcoming hybrid-engined scooter. The patent drawings have just been published for a super-mpg scooter that’s going to be part of the 2017 line-up. Details on the bike are pretty scarce but what we can see is a motor that’s part…
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SCOOP Video: Samsung debuts first ‘Smart Windshield’ on Yamaha scooter
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SCOOP Video: Samsung debuts first ‘Smart Windshield’ on Yamaha scooter! There’s no mention yet of when you can buy this sort of thing – but Samsung has revealed a live, smart-phone enabled heads-up windshield for motorcycling, and the set-up has been shown on a Yamaha Tricity scooter in Milan. We’ve got the first look at…
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Spanish firm makes cool chairs from old Vespas
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Spanish firm makes cool chairs from old Vespas. These amazing seats are the latest creation to come out of Spanish design house Bel & Bel – yep, they are funky office-style chairs made out of old Vespas. Bel & Bel is a company run by Charles and Jesus Bel, the brothers come from the University…
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Softly, softly, catchee (Honda) Monkey
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Remember the Monkey bikes from Honda? They’re not sold in the UK anymore but you can still sometimes see packs of them on the roads (usually in somewhat modified form). The 50cc bikes are tiny by modern standards, but they still have a faithful following and in Japan they are still on sale. In fact,…
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Best-selling bikes of 2015 revealed
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2015 was a fantastic year for motorcycle sales in the UK and we now have the details of the best-selling bikes. The MCIA, which collates new registration data for the industry, reports that total registrations for 2015 exceed 114,000, which is the highest annual total since 2008. This figure is up more than 12% on…
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Top Ten Motorcycles of Everything
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Countless hours have been won and lost chatting – or arguing – about the top ten fastest bikes, the classics, the not-so-classics, and the “if only we won the lottery” bikes. Well, we thought we’d pull together a top ten of the top ten. From the most futuristic to the fastest female, to the most…
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World launch review: 2016 Kawasaki J125 scooter test
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2016 Kawasaki J125: First ride Kawasaki has just launched the J125, an A1 licence-friendly 125cc scooter with the sporty looks of a city sprinter and the roomy comfort of a maxi-scooter. The J125 is Kawasaki’s first scooter in the 125cc class in Europe – and only the second in its entire range. The new…
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VIDEO: The new BMW C 650 Sport and BMW C 650 GT on the road
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VIDEO: The new BMW C 650 Sport and BMW C 650 GT on the road BMW announced the updated C 650 Sport and BMW C 650 GT superscooters a couple of months ago when we shared the video explaining what’s new in the 2016 models. Now we have a couple of videos showing the new…
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Tokyo Motor Show: more LOLcats weirdness from Yamaha
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Tokyo Motor Show: more LOLcats weirdness from Yamaha. A couple of weeks ago we were the first to share the (frankly bizarre) LOLcats teaser pictures that Yamaha’s marketing people released, hinting at new bikes to be displayed at the Tokyo show at the end of the month. Now the Yamaha LOLcats are at it again,…
