Sports Bikes
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Victory racing both Project 156 AND electric Empulse RR bikes at Pikes Peak this year
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Victory Motorcycles will be racing up the mountain with two very different motorcycles in this year’s Pikes Peak International Hill Climb (PPIHC), an event that marks its 100th anniversary in 2016. In a gas vs. electric battle in the experimental class, Victory Racing’s Project 156 will be piloted by former Pikes Peak Champion Jeremy Toye…
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MT-10 gets fancy french paint makeover with nine colour options
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MT-10 gets fancy french paint makeover with nine colour options. Ohhh la la! French painworks firm already offering funky new colours for the Yamaha MT-10. Fancy it in pink? It’s just been announced by french firm ADKoncept (www.adkoncept.fr) that they can do nine different colours for the MT-10. Yep. The funky schemes are also being…
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2017 Yamaha R6 image surfaces in Japan
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2017 Yamaha R6 image surfaces in Japan. This is what the Japanese journalists closest to the insider source at Yamaha Japan say the next generation of R6 is going to look like. Now, there’s quite a few rumblings today saying that although this image of the future-R6, which has appeared in a few outlets in…
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2017 Kawasaki H2 GT drawings from Japan confirm Morebikes patent story from February
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2017 Kawasaki H2 GT drawings from Japan confirm Morebikes patent story from February. Top Japanese motorcycle magazine YoungMachine has just appeared with this amazing illustration on the cover of the next generation Kawasaki H2 – called the GT. The H2 GT is the latest on our story from February 9 this year when we uncovered…
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Track time at Misano ramped up at World Ducati Weekend 2016
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The countdown to the great Ducati get-together World Ducati Week 2016 has begun. For weeks now preparations have been under way for an event that will draw thousands of Ducatisti from all over the globe, seeing them arrive at the Adriatic Riviera and the “Marco Simoncelli” Misano World Circuit which, from 1to 3 July, which will host…
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Video: Rossi’s helmet painter Aldo Drudi has moved to bikes – and he’s designed this!
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Rossi’s helmet painter Aldo Drudi has moved to bikes – and he’s designed this! So here’s Drudi’s first motorcycle – the Burasca 1200. Made in collaboration with bike builders Air Garage and Honda Italia, the bike is – essentially – a Honda VFR1200F with Ohlins NIX 30 forks and TTX GP 36 rear shock. The…
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Video: Fancy a bike in the mush?
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Here’s a video to underline just how quickly things can go wrong on track – end of a track session, one rider coasting around – another clips him – and the following rider gets a face full of superbike pretty quickly. Ouch. Here’s the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9j9EmfZjCQ It reminds us of this crash in British Superbikes that…
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Video: A few Spanish corners on the Yamaha MT-10
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Here’s a nice little video of a few corners with Yamaha’s new MT-10, the R1-powered big naked 2016 model. Not much more to say about this other than it’s the sort of video that has no yabbering on but in a few corners tells you a bit about how the bike goes about its business…
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Polaris joining MV Agusta? Italian financial minds say the deal is on and could save MV
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Polaris joining MV Agusta? Italian financial minds say the deal is on and could save MV. Much talk going on at the moment about the future of MV Agusta with sectors of the Italian financial quarter saying that a possible link-up with Polaris is on the cards. MV have kept the courts at bay for…
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KTM recalls 2015 and 2016 1290 Super Adventure
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KTM recalls 2015 and 2016 1290 Super Adventure. We’ve just had this come through from KTM: KTM has issued a recall of the 1290 SUPER ADVENTURE from model years 2015 and 2016 in order to review the semi-active shock absorber and update its software. Market investigations by KTM have established that the semi-active shock…
