Street Bikes
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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…
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Learner motorcyclists could have to take even more tests just to get their CBT if Government plans get go ahead
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Learner motorcyclists could have to take even more tests just to get their CBT if Government plans get go ahead. A raft of changes to the way learner road users are taught and assessed could be about to come into force if Government plans for new rules for new riders and drivers are brought into…
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Video: Here’s a T-Rex doing stunts on a motorcycle. Yeah.
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Video: Here’s a T-Rex doing stunts on a motorcycle. Yeah. https://www.facebook.com/ah.hong/videos/10153952298551577/ So here’s a decent bit of a funny video that we thought we’d post because – well, let’s be honest here, we haven’t got a ‘news’ reason to post it. It made us smile today, we figured it’d do the same for you. Nothing…
