Street Bikes
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Ducati Scrambler 400: Latest comic strip weirdness appears
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The latest instalment in the ‘Bart & Betty’ weird comic strip from Ducati has appeared from the Italian factory. This is, apparently, something to do with the ‘Land of Joy’ campaign that’s teasing towards the 400cc Scrambler that we told you about last month. This is part two of the eleven part strip and in…
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Philippines kid makes own ‘Panigale’ – and does a good job of it
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Philippines kid makes own ‘Panigale’ – and does a good job of it! So what bike would you think this was, if you walked past it parked up? Yep, we didn’t realise this either, but this is actually a 150cc Yamaha SZ-R. Built up by a kid to look like a Panigale. The owner is…
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SCOOP: Video of the 2016 H2 Kawasaki hyperbike
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Kawasaki’s stunning H2 Ninja is getting tweaked further for 2016 – and here’s the video about it that shows next year’s model in all it’s new-colour glory. The new version of the bike gets a new screen, new colour and what looks like a revision to the exhaust, we’ll have to wait for…
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SCOOP: Honda teases with official pictures of 2016 NC750X AND 400X (500X in the UK)
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Here’s the first look at two more 2016 Hondas – the NC750X AND new 400X which will be sold as the 500X in the UK. Honda has announced that it will show the world premiere of both bikes at the 44th Tokyo Motor Show 2015 at the end of the month. Here’s what Honda…
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VIDEO: Biker pulls wheelie, gives police the finger then legs it
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VIDEO: Biker pulls wheelie, gives police the finger then legs it. OK, we need to put this in here in order to make our position clear (to be honest, we’re doing this mostly to stop people sending us abusive emails as a result of this sort of thing) – but we don’t condone this sort…
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SCOOP: Shaft-driven Aprilia on the way! Patents show radical plan
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SCOOP: Shaft-driven Aprilia on the way! Patents show radical plan. We have been sent a new patent drawing that shows that Aprilia is planning a new SHAFT-DRIVE bike. Info is scarce at the moment and the only details we have is that the patent is callled: Homokinetic Motorcycle Transmission and Motorcycle Comprising Said Transmission, the…
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VIDEO: Stock H2R goes soooo fast over time trial tarmac mile
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VIDEO: Stock H2R goes soooo fast over time trial tarmac mile. Check out this awesome video of Team 38 topping 216mph for over a mile on a STOCK H2R during time trials. The bunch of Japense bikers. going under the name Team 38, was established in 1975 and work on developing Kawasaki bikes. They had…
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Yamaha’s NEXT-GEN FZ1 Fazer picture surfaces
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Yamaha’s NEXT-GEN FZ1 Fazer picture surfaces. We’ve known for a while that Yamaha is working on an updated, high-spec version of the FZ1 Fazer – most likely to be powered by a de-tuned R1 engine and here’s what the Japanese journalists talking to Yamaha reckon the bike will look like. As with whole ranges of…
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Yamaha’s weird and wonderful at the Tokyo Motor Show revealed
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Other news from the world of Yamaha in the run-up to the 44th Tokyo Motor Show. And there’s very little in the way of surprises – unless you count wood panels on a bike something of a surprise, that is. The single cylinder, 125cc Resonator125 (above) is a funky little concept bike that apes the…
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Yamaha’s super three-wheeler for Tokyo – best picture yet shows loads more
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Yamaha’s super three-wheeler for Tokyo – best picture yet shows loads more. Yamaha is showing this tilting three-wheeled concept at the Tokyo motor show at the end of this month. Details about the bike are scarce and, other than this single image released by the factory, all that we know is what we can see…
