Sports Bikes
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VIDEO: Roland Sands Panigale 1299S – the KH9. Awesome metal.
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VIDEO: Roland Sands Panigale 1299S – the KH9. Awesome metal. Check out this gorgeous 1299S Panigale that’s been dipped in the styling world of American specials builder Roland Sands. This is the first of a couple of Ducatis that Sands is adding his touch to, on its way is a Superlegerra Cafe Racer (yep… we…
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SCOOP: Kawasaki’s Ninja R2 SECRET patent drawings for supercharger with extra fuel injector built in
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We’ve already told you several times about the Kawasaki Ninja R2 – the next supercharged motorcycle set to come from the Japanese factory, and now we’ve been sent these exclusive patent drawings of a (kind of) multi-point fuel injection system for the new bike. Last week we revealed how the Japanese journalists hot on the…
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SCOOP: Yamaha’s mystery SECRET patent shows new exhaust and R1-type sportbike planned
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Here’s a baffling, secret patent drawing that’s been filed by Yamaha – and we’ve not got a clue what it’s for, but we figure that you might be able to suss it out. What has happened is this; the Yamaha factory has filed for a patent on a new headlight and bodywork assembly and within…
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Triumph confirms Thruxton and Thruxton R prices and availability
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Triumph Thruxton and Thruxton R are right up there among the most beautiful bikes of the season. And Triumph has just announced that you could get your hands on one for just a touch over £10k. Not bad, considering that the main rival, Norton Dominator, is priced at £19,950. The OTR price for Thruxton 1200…
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VIDEO: Icon 1000’s Major Tom GSX-R special
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Check out this beautiful bit of film – it makes no sense and looks more like an arthouse movie than bike promo but boy do we like this sort of thing – and we reckon you will too. It’s a promo film for the Suzuki GSX-R special called Major Tom that’s been built by the…
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VIDEO: Kawasaki H2 caning it around the Nurburgring
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VIDEO: Kawasaki H2 caning it around the Nurburgring. Check out this pretty cool video of a Kawasaki H2 being put around the Nurburgring. It’s not a new video, it was made last October, but on a grizzly and grimy morning like we’ve got in the UK it’s a cracking bit of big bike fun to…
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Japanese journos print Kawasaki Ninja R2 image – claim it’s going to be a 600
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Japanese journos print Kawasaki Ninja R2 image – claim it’s going to be a 600. We’ve been telling you about the second generation of supercharged Kawasakis for over a year now, the plans for more supercharging units have been patented and shown on MoreBikes for the past ten months or so. Just past midnight…
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Honda CBR500R and CB500F world launch review
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Honda CBR500R and CB500F world launch review Tested by: Mikko Nieminen Engine: 471cc liquid-cooled, parallel twin Power: 47bhp at 8500rpm Torque: 43Nm at 7000rpm Price: CBR500R £5,599 / CB500F £5,099 The A2 licence category is a veritable minefield for bike manufacturers in many ways. Any machine that wants to succeed here must be easy for…
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2017 Yamaha R15 facelift mac-up appears in the emerging markets
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2017 Yamaha R15 facelift mac-up appears in the emerging markets. Indonesian website Peysblog has fired up this computer image of what it think the facelifted Yamaha R15 is going to look like. This image certainly tallies with the blurry snapshot of a Yamaha being ridden at the firm’s Indonesian plant that we brought you a…
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Awesome pics of Aprilia 2016 MotoGP bike at Qatar
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Awesome pics of Aprilia 2016 MotoGP bike at Qatar. These are the first full-on pics of the new Aprilia 2016 RS-GP MotoGP bike from the factory’s three-day test in Qatar. The bike, with an all-new V4 motor for this year, was ridden by Alvaro Bautista and Stefan Bradl, it will also be tested by Sam…
