Sports Bikes
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2016 Kawasaki ZX-10R – the tech that matters from the Project Leader
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The Sepang launch of the 2016 Kawasaki ZX-10R is going on at the moment and out there Project Leader Matsuda Yoshimoto (pictured) has been showing the journalists the trickest of trick bits about the new superbike from Team Green. Here’s the highlights about the new electronic ABS track braking feed (much less intrusive than previous…
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Yamaha R15 tweaked looks for 2016
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The first picture of a facelifted Yamaha YZF-R15 has surfaced. The tiny bike is mainly being sold in the asian and emerging markets, it’s pretty much the same as the bike that went before but gets lighter wheels with a thinner spoked design, revised seat and a new number plate hanger. Various cosmetics like footplate…
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VIDEO: Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R 2016 Barcelona unveil
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The 2016 Ninja ZX-10R has been unveiled at an exclusive Press event in Barcelona. This video, just published by Kawasaki, features the Team Green riders Tom Sykes (2013 World Superbike champion) and Jonathan Rea (2015 World Superbike champion) as well as their technical team, who share their thoughts on the new superbike. The bike features…
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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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SCOOP: BMW concepts for motorcycle laser light and helmet with head-up display
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BMW Motorrad has just announced that it will be displaying two innovations at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas on 6-9 January 2016. Laser light for motorcycles and a helmet with a head-up display will be presented, setting new standards of motorcycle safety, along with a technical outlook of how they may be…
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SCOOP: Order details for new Blade hint at new name for Honda’s updated superbike
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An importer in Indonesia has left part of a manifest form open for long enough to get photographed, and it shows a new code name for a top-end version of the 2016 Fireblade. On the order form – placed on December 30 – the bike is called the CBR10. We’ve been told that this is…
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SCOOP: Kawasaki’s hot Ninja 250RR – another image appears overnight
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Another image of the coming Ninja 250 (also being called the Ninja25RR – which we much prefer as a name for this sort of thing) has surfaced overnight. It’s just a computer-generated image based on details coming out of Japan, and doesn’t show anything more than we already now – but in terms of…
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AMAZING new Honda ‘Live’ computer instructor system for beginners revealed in patent drawings
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AMAZING new Honda ‘Live’ computer instructor system for beginners revealed in patent drawings. Here’s Honda’s latest idea for making new riders smarter riders – a live computer ‘pillion’ rider that analyses each ride and then tells a rider how to do it again straight away, but better. In a patent filed by the…
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VIDEO: Alvaro Bautista on Aprilia RSV4
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Aprilia has just released a video of its RSV4 in action. In the video Aprilia’s GP rider Alvaro Bautista rides and talks about the bike and the thrill you get from more than 200bhp. The video has a tag line ‘designed for racers, built for riders’ which pretty much sums up this V4 beast. Here’s…
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2016 Kawasaki Ninja 250R mini-superbike pictures appear
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This is the next-generation, hot-to-trot Kawasaki Ninja 250 – a high-tech, high-spec version of the current soft-commuter/beginners bikes currently filling out the quarter-litre sector. The bike has been posted on Warungasep.net, and the side-on image shows the bike with some photo-shopping to clean up the bodywork. According to their source, the bike will either be…
