Sports Bikes
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Inside Line: Top Japanese journalists saying new Busa still on its way!
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Inside Line: Top Japanese journalists saying new Busa still on its way! Top Japanese motorcycle magazine is, as you’d expect, pretty much finger-in-the-pulse of what’s going on in Japan with current and upcoming motorcycles. The latest issue has just been finished and we’ve got a first look at the cover. As you might also expect,…
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Video: Porsche 918 Spyder VS Yamaha YZF-R1
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Video: Porsche 918 Spyder VS Yamaha YZF-R1 Here’s a cool little video for a bit of Friday fun: Porsche 918 Spyder racing Yamaha YZF-R1 on track. It’s a short film showing the superbike and supercar going head to head, complete with a bit of high-speed wheelie action (from the R1 that is, not the Porche).…
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Pictures: New CFMoto bikes revealed in Milan
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Not everyone here in the UK has heard of CFMoto, but they are one of the largest Asian manufacturers of motorcycles, scooters, quads, boats and all sorts of engines. This week CFMoto revealed interesting new bikes from street fighters to tourers at the EICMA show. The touring oriented 650TK and 650TK-G share a twin-cylinder 650cc…
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SCOOP: Honda’s awesome Six50 Scrambler concept based on the CBR650F (yeah, really!)
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You’ll find the Honda CB4 concept on another article here on MoreBikes and this is the sister bike to the design free-thinking bit of Honda Motor Europe – this is the Honda Six50, a scrambler style bike build around the CBR650F platform that’s on display at the Milan show currently. Because this is based around…
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SCOOP: Honda’s European CB4 concept: a CB650 turned into a killer future cafe racer
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Dear Honda, if you’re reading this then please, please, please make this CB4 concept a reality that we can ride. As a retro-styled machine, the project really hits the spot. Underneath the shiny outsides is a CB650F. The bike gets a single-sided swingarm, a new exhaust and solid front brake discs with Tokico red calipers.…
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Aprilia launches updated 2016 RSV4 RR and RSV4 RF at Milan
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Engine: 1000cc V4 | Power: 200bhp + | Weight: 180kg Aprilia RSV4 is the 1000cc, V4 superbike with performance in excess of 200bhp that has won seven titles in the World SBK championship. For the new season it gets new graphics and rear suspension, as well as the V4-MP multimedia platform (which allows the rider…
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Kawasaki launches ZZR1400 Performance Sport bike at Milan
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Kawasaki has launched the Performance Sport version of the ZZR1400 supersports tourer at Milan The Japanese firm says that the ZZR1400 and ZZR1400 Performance Sport models have been refined with a host of engine and chassis modifications. The bikes get new settings in the ECU and a revised exhaust to meet Euro4 emission regulations without any drop…
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Kawasaki launch the 2016 ‘Winter Edition’ ZX-10R with Akrapovic pipe as standard
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Kawasaki has just released this version of the ZX-10R superbike. Called the ‘Winter Edition’ the bike gets a matt black and white livery in-line with what’s happening currently with the WSB squad. The new machine features the KRT “Snowflake” logo plus Japanese kanji “fuyu” character appropriately meaning Winter. Complete with a road-legal Akrapovic silencer as standard,…
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Kawasaki launches ‘Sugomi’ versions of 2016 Z800 and Z1000 nakeds
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Kawasaki has just launched two versions of the Z800 and Z1000 nakeds at the EICMA event in Milan. The so-called ‘Sugomi Editions’ are effectively colour-schemes with revised graphics and the factory has stuck an end can on each. Burgundy and black colour treatments plus what Kawasaki calls ‘accent anodising’ are on each bike, which look…
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SCOOP: Suzuki launches GSX-R1000 ‘protoype’ at Milan (but it’s the 2017 bike, really)
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Suzuki has launched the new GSX-R at Milan, but we’ve got to wait to get our hands on it for some time yet because the bike the factory has shown is just a prototype. Amid the hype and fanfare were some facts about the bike (exact details have yet to be released, we’re expecting them…
