Street Bikes
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SCOOP: BMW concepts for motorcycle laser light and helmet with head-up display
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BMW Motorrad has just announced that it will be displaying two innovations at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas on 6-9 January 2016. Laser light for motorcycles and a helmet with a head-up display will be presented, setting new standards of motorcycle safety, along with a technical outlook of how they may be…
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SCOOP: Order details for new Blade hint at new name for Honda’s updated superbike
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An importer in Indonesia has left part of a manifest form open for long enough to get photographed, and it shows a new code name for a top-end version of the 2016 Fireblade. On the order form – placed on December 30 – the bike is called the CBR10. We’ve been told that this is…
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SCOOP: Kawasaki’s hot Ninja 250RR – another image appears overnight
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Another image of the coming Ninja 250 (also being called the Ninja25RR – which we much prefer as a name for this sort of thing) has surfaced overnight. It’s just a computer-generated image based on details coming out of Japan, and doesn’t show anything more than we already now – but in terms of…
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SCOOP: BMW greenlights fully-faired G310R mini-superbike for later this year (rumour)
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Many rumours are doing the rounds today that BMW has just greenlit a fully-faired, more racey version of its G310R single cylinder roadster. As you’d expect, there’s nothing official from BMW about this – and there’s not likely to be anything official until the bike is launched with a fairing (probably later this year). But…
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AMAZING new Honda ‘Live’ computer instructor system for beginners revealed in patent drawings
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AMAZING new Honda ‘Live’ computer instructor system for beginners revealed in patent drawings. Here’s Honda’s latest idea for making new riders smarter riders – a live computer ‘pillion’ rider that analyses each ride and then tells a rider how to do it again straight away, but better. In a patent filed by the…
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2016 Kawasaki Ninja 250R mini-superbike pictures appear
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This is the next-generation, hot-to-trot Kawasaki Ninja 250 – a high-tech, high-spec version of the current soft-commuter/beginners bikes currently filling out the quarter-litre sector. The bike has been posted on Warungasep.net, and the side-on image shows the bike with some photo-shopping to clean up the bodywork. According to their source, the bike will either be…
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Honda recalls VFR1200F with immediate effect
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Honda is recalling 1,825 VFR1200F bikes for repair to a faulty universal joint in the driveshaft assembly. The announcement so far only effects American bikes (a total at the moment of 1,825 models). Honda says that because of the defect, the driveshaft’s universal joint bearings may prematurely wear which could cause the universal joint to…
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VIDEO: Quick walk through the 2016 Ducati range
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Tony Carter goes for a quick walk through the 2016 Ducati range at Motorcycle Live. Rapid look at rapid bikes – and the Scrambler 400. VIDEO: Quick walk through the 2016 Ducati range
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Video: 2016 Bimota Impeto and Tesi walk around
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A quick look at two amazing bits of kit for 2016 from Italian style house, Bimota. The 160bhp Impeto naked superbike and the weird, Tesi front ended cafe racer. Here’s Tony Carter with all the details: Video: 2016 Bimota Impeto and Tesi walk around
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Top Ten Motorcycles of Everything
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Countless hours have been won and lost chatting – or arguing – about the top ten fastest bikes, the classics, the not-so-classics, and the “if only we won the lottery” bikes. Well, we thought we’d pull together a top ten of the top ten. From the most futuristic to the fastest female, to the most…
