Street Bikes
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Yard Built Heads to Turkey for a Tracker Style XSR700 by Bunker Custom Motorcycles
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With spring well and truly underway Yamaha heads to Istanbul in Turkey to collaborate with a new member of the Yard Built family, Bunker Custom Motorcycles. Brothers, Can and Mert Uzer are not your typical custom bike builders. Can is a top level skateboarder with the Vans Turkey Skateboarding Team, while Mert recently gave…
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German press shows this: Mega six-cylinder naked with six exhausts and K1600 engine… yeah…
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OK, so this is a rumour – and from what we can gather from our German cousins on the excellent Motorrad magazine, there’s little to move this story on from that rather precarious position – but still, check this story out! What we have here is the illustration by Stefan Kraft that shows a massive…
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Akula BMW/TVS 300 concept IS going into production – as the Apache RTR300
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Our friends at the excellent Rushlane website in India have dug up a great bike of info on the Akula 310 concept – the fully-faired sportbike based around BMW’s G310R naked (pictured below). The Apache RTR300 gets the G310R’s 34bhp liquid-cooled single-cylinder motor and a 6-speed gearbox. The best news is that the…
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Japanese journo’s Honda CBR250RR finished form image appears – and it looks trick
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Top Japanese motorcycle magazine Young Machine has just released it’s latest edition’s cover – and pride of place on it is a fully-finished computer Mac-up of the upcoming CBR250RR Honda. The bike shares a lot of bodywork styling from the already-seen CBR125 – but in terms of colourscheme etc it’s a safe bet that this…
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Spy shots! Husky Vitpilen cafe racer snapped out in first tests on the road!
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Here are spy pictures of the Husqvarna Vitpilen cafe racer for the road as it’s put through its first set of road tests abroad. The bike is heavily drab with black bodywork and a temporary exhaust and silencer – the wheels are a far cry from the spoked versions (or the fatter-spoked mag arm wheels)…
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Meet the official HRC Grom monkey bike racer that you can now buy
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Honda’s official racing company, HRC, has developed and put on sale a raft of tricked-up parts for the firm’s mini-bike, the Grom. A Grom in HRC colours with a couple of performance parts bolted to it is old news, but the fact that HRC has put on sale the host of hot-ticket options shows…
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Rumour? BMW to launch muscle cruiser rival to the Ducati XDiavel?
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German magazine Motorrad believes that BMW is building an XDiavel crusher – a muscle cruiser pared back to basics to try and take on the likes of the popular Italian model. It’s just a rumour at the moment – and there’s no solid leads on much of this (other than the rumour itself) – and…
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Fancy being a Ducati ‘torch bearer’ one of seven people riding a relay around the world for the Italian bike maker?
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Ducati has sent us this information about a global relay-ride that the firm is holding which will see a Multistrada 1200 Enduro ridden around the world – cool enough – but what they are looking for are SEVEN riders from the general public who will make up the riding team. And you could be one…
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Indian journos make this mini-GS310 Adventure image from our exclusive story – we love it!
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Indian journos make this mini-GS310 Adventure image from our exclusive story – we love it! Our friends at top Indian site Rushlane have sent us this computer image of a mini-GS300 type BMW Adventure bike which they came up with from our scoop story on April 6. Here’s our article that inspired this illustration, the…
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Video: Yamaha Tracer 700 in action
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Yamaha has just released this promotional video of it’s new Tracer 700 in action. The bike has been revealed to everyone today by the factory, it’s a MT-07 upright bike that makes 75bhp, will be in dealers in July and costs £6,299. Here’s the video:
