Street Bikes
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Yamaha’s new Tracer 700 – in dealers in July and costs £6,299
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Here is the new bike from Yamaha for 2016 – as expected it’s the Tracer 700. The MT-07 upright bike has been spied in testing trim for a couple of months and here it is in finished version. It’ll cost £6,299. The new Tracer 700 will be available in three colours – Radical Red, Tech Black…
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Here’s Harley-Davidson’s new Roadster for 2016
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Here’s Harley-Davidson’s new Roadster for 2016. This is the new Harley-Davidson Roadster – the latest addition to the firm’s Sportster range. It comes in four colours; vivid black with a charcoal denim pinstripe, black denim with a red pinstripe and velocity red sun Sunglo with a red pinstripe. The vivid black scheme will cost…
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Kawasaki unveils new KLX250 D-Tracker Final Edition
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Kawasaki unveils new KLX250 D-Tracker Final Edition. Kawasaki has shown this over the weekend in Japan, the new KLX250 D-Tracker. The on/off-road bike may have been around in various forms since the mid-1980s but this is the end of the line, according to Japanese journalists this morning. The model is called the X Final Edition…
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Tested: Pirelli Diablo Rosso III tyres
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WORDS: John Milbank, editor Motorcycle Sport and Leisure – PHOTOGRAPHY: Milagro Price: Around £240 a pair What better way to test a tyre that’s claimed to be perfect for UK riders of sports, naked and sport-touring bikes than in the pouring rain? I’m sure that, in 20°C heat on a sunny Spanish race…
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Video: Africa Twin’s DCT switches explained!
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We’ve taken a few minutes out from a photoshoot to show you what switches do what on the Honda Africa Twin – because we realised that nobody has done this yet.
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FIRST look at prototype Yamaha MT-07 Adventure bike – ALL OF THE PICS right here!
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Yamaha’s MT-07 Adventure bike breaks cover in Italy. These spy shots are the first to show the new MT-07 Adventure from Yamaha being put through early road tests in Italy and we’re showing all the pictures of the bike for FREE right here, these are all the pictures for you to see – we’re not…
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KTM’s mini-Adventure bike – according to the Indian journos this morning
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This is a pretty nice computer mock-up of a future bike – it’s the small Adventure from KTM, based around this firm’s 390. Made for the Indian outlet Rushlane based on rumours that they’ve heard, the image pretty much takes the workings of the 390 and slaps them into a smaller 1190/1050 KTM dress. This…
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Spain, Poland and Greece Rule the 2016 Yamaha Dealer Built Competition
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On Thursday 31st March the second edition of the Yamaha Dealer Built competition came to a close after an impressive round of voting. Over 22,000 votes were cast for builds from across Europe, as custom bike fans got online to register their appreciation and deliver three category winners; Spain’s Eduardo Castro Motors in the Mono/…
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Honda’s secret designs for the MORPHING tourer in 2017 – REVEALED
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Honda’s secret designs for the MORPHING tourer in 2017 – REVEALED. Honda’s next step in motorcycle evolution is going to be tourers and sport tourers that actually change the footrests, footboard AND seat construction underneath you as you ride. With the morphing seat patent it shows how both the rider and pillion seats change shape…
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Triumph recalling Street Twin and Bonneville T120 over fuel leak fire risk
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Triumph recalling Street Twin and Bonneville T120 over fuel leak fire risk. Triumph America and Triumph UK will be recalling the 2016 Street Twin and Bonneville T120 because if a fear that fuel might leak into the electrical system, creating a fire risk. Reports from the USA this morning say that the USA’s National Highway…
