Street Bikes
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Triumph reveals new Street Triple range – higher spec, 765cc engines AND an A2 licence friendly 660cc bike!
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Triumph reveals new Street Triple range – higher spec, 765cc engines AND an A2 licence friendly 660cc bike! Ten years since the launch of the original Street Triple, Triumph has pulled the covers off a trio of new middleweight street fighters, the Street Triple S, Street Triple R and Street Triple RS. Triumph calls…
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Video: Kawasaki Z900 top speed run
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Video: Kawasaki Z900 top speed run. https://youtu.be/HiKRdHG8TGY Kawasaki unveiled its Z900 at the end of last year. Japanese publication Over Ride took it upon themselves to get one, put it out on the road at night and see what it’d do. The answer was that it topped out at 253kph. That’s 157mph. Seems pretty OK…
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Rumour: MV Agusta USA about to be sold?
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Rumour: MV Agusta USA about to be sold? Reported on American motorcycle web outlet Asphalt & Rubber by the excellent Jensen Beeler comes this interesting nugget about the troubled Italian brand, MV Agusta. Whilst there’s virtually no other comment or news about this to be found elsewhere, we’re inclined to believe Beeler’s reports because his…
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Polaris parting company with Victory motorcycles
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Polaris parting company with Victory motorcycles. Polaris is parting company with Victory motorcycles. The parent company has announced that it will immediately begin winding down its Victory Motorcycles brand and related operations. Here’s what Polaris said in a press release on the ending of the partnership: “Polaris will assist dealers in liquidating existing inventories while…
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Video: AMAZING self balancing Honda REVEALED at Las Vegas tech show – check this out! It’ll blow your mind!
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Video: AMAZING self balancing Honda REVEALED at Las Vegas tech show – check this out! It’ll blow your mind! We’re loving this from Honda – a self balancing prototype that’s just been unveiled at the CES tech show in Las Vegas. Honda isn’t saying when (or indeed, if) this ‘Riding Assist’ will be seen on…
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Japanese journo says NAKED version of Honda CBR250RR is DEFINITELY on the way…
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Japanese journo says NAKED version of Honda CBR250RR is DEFINITELY on the way… Here’s the mac-up illustration straight off the cover of top Japanese magazine YoungMachine (above) and another (below) from MotoBlast.org – the news about the naked CBR250RR is certainly grabbing some imaginations around the globe. We’re willing to bet that loads of…
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Oh boy! Yamaha’s plans for an XSR300 (the NEW RD350 retro) revealed in Japanese magazine!
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Oh boy! Yamaha’s plans for an XSR300 (the NEW RD350 retro) revealed in Japanese magazine! Here’s a story from our friends in Japan that’s going to get the motorcycle world hopping around in New Year excitement – a return of the RD350! Kind of! What this story surrounds is news from our friends at Japanese…
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Video: RSD X Indian Hooligan does a riverbed jump
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We’ll let you make your own mind up about this – this is a video from stage diver and bike builder Roland Sands (look through our previous pages to see him ride this bike off a stage! Superstar!) that shows his Indian Sportster special Hooligan bike doing some stuff. The bike weighs nearly 220kg and…
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OK, weird: This is a motorcycle with the bodywork made of STONE. Yeah, stone.
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OK, weird: This is a motorcycle with the bodywork made of STONE. Yeah, stone. What a time to be alive! We have bikes from both BMW and Ducati with Carbon chassis, wheels and component parts – the products of companies striving to take things to the lightest form possible – and now we have this!…
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Video: Final episode of Yamaha’s Master of Torque (MT series of bikes based animation) is now live
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Video: Final episode of Yamaha’s Master of Torque (MT series of bikes based animation) is now live. Umm… we’ve shown you previous episodes of this series before, it’s a Japanese animation from Yamaha that’s you’re usual Japanese motorcycle cartoon fare – but this stuff is centered around riding bikes from the MT series of…
