Sports Bikes
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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…
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Video: 2016 Bimota Impeto and Tesi walk around
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A quick look at two amazing bits of kit for 2016 from Italian style house, Bimota. The 160bhp Impeto naked superbike and the weird, Tesi front ended cafe racer. Here’s Tony Carter with all the details: Video: 2016 Bimota Impeto and Tesi walk around
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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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Top Japanese journalists say Hayabusa 1400 with supercharger green-lit for next year
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Another story that’s raising eyebrows this morning is this claim from leading Japanese motorcycle magazine Young Machine that a supercharged 1400cc Hayabusa is about to enter final a final testing phase ahead of some launch in 2016. And that launch will probably NOT be at the end of next year, but sooner. There’s been a…
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Kawasaki promises 12 new bikes over next two years
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Kawasaki promises 12 new bikes over next two years Kawasaki is planning to include 12 new models to its range over the next two years. The announcement was made at the recent press launch of the new Kawasaki J125 scooter in Malaga. The numbers revealed by Kawasaki do not include updates to the current range…
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Yamaha issues global recall on all 2015 YZF-R1s
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Yamaha issues global recall on all 2015 YZF-R1s. Yamaha is carrying out a global recall of all 2015 YZF-R1 motorcycles after a possible issue was picked up with the gearbox. A fortnight ago, we told you about rumours doing the rounds in the States that the recall was about to happen, but back then nobody…
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Suzuki GSX-R250 headed for Indian launch next February
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News is doing the rounds in Indonesia and elsewhere amongst asian markets this morning that Suzuki’s GSX-R250 will now be launched in India in February. The small sportster was widely expected to be launched at the recent Tokyo and Milan motorcycle shows. According to the inside information from the emerging markets the bike is now…
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SCOOP: Honda’s CBR250RR concept to get green light for production
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Honda introduced its CBR250RR concept bike at the 44th Tokyo Motor Show a couple of months ago, and now Asian motorcycle journalists reckon it will go into test production in March 2016. The news comes from Indonesia, where the bike is rumoured to be built. What we have heard is not official but it makes…
