Touring Bikes
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Launch ride: 2017 Yamaha MT-10 SP & Tourer Edition
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Yamaha’s MT-10 is a stunning machine. Launched last year, the company was keen to stress that it wasn’t ‘just’ an R1 with wide bars, though given the fact that it uses the hyper-sports bike’s frame, swingarm, suspension and headlights, not to mention many of the crossplane crank motor’s main parts, you’d be forgiven for thinking…
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Video: Trump meets with Harley riders less than 24 hours after cancelled factory visit
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Trump meets with Harley riders less than 24 hours after cancelled factory visit. https://www.facebook.com/fox11la/videos/10158187718185553/ Less than 24 hours after reports emerged in the USA that new President of the United States, Donald Trump, had cancelled a visit to Harley-Davidson’s factory in Wisconsin, the fringe-led freedom fighter has posed for a somewhat puzzling photo-shoot with Harley…
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Trump cancels visit to Harley-Davidson: American reports suggest
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Trump cancels visit to Harley-Davidson: American reports suggest. Reports on CNN in America have surfaced that new President of the USA, Donald Trump, has cancelled a planned visit to Harley-Davidson today over fears of protests by the public. Harley’s Menomonee Falls factory in Wisconsin was to see the stiff-haired ‘leader of the free world’…
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Honda’s secret SUPERCHARGED engine patents REVEALED
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Honda is planning a new, supercharged motorcycle that will have the power-boosting unit mounted on the left-hand side of the engine. And the new kit will power a host of new motorcycles over the next few years. These are the patent drawings for the new motor with the supercharger system in place. Don’t be…
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Sena invents the rangeless helmet intercom system. Stay in touch no matter how far you ride, as you ride
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Sena invents the rangeless helmet intercom system. Stay in touch no matter how far you ride, as you ride. We’re big fans of the Sena range of bluetooth equipment (we use Sena gear to shoot all of our onboard footage on MoreBikes), so the latest news from Sena that it has now worked out a…
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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: 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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Suzuki issues recall on V-Strom 650 over stator failure fears
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Suzuki issues recall on V-Strom 650 over stator failure fears. Suzuki has issued a recall on it’s 650 V-Strom because of a potential fault with the wiring. The recall is has – so far – only been made in the States and affects some 8,613 bikes which were made between August 30 and October 12,…
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SPY SHOTS: Gotcha! KTM’s 2018 390 Adventure caught out and about on the road
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SPY SHOTS: Gotcha! KTM’s 2018 390 Adventure caught out and about on the road. Hot on the heels of our first look at the KTM 800 (read: 790-named) Adventure bike a week ago comes these great pictures of the Austrian company’s ‘other’ secret Adventure bike – it’s new 390! Caught out by our spy…
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X-Lite launches the flip-up carbon touring helmet. Sweet.
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X-Lite launches the flip-up carbon touring helmet. Sweet. This is the new X-Lite X-1004 DYAD Ultra Carbon – X-Lite’s lightest ever flip up lid and it’s specifically aimed at touring riders. Costing £449.99 the helmet is around 80g less than most flip-up lids weighing in at 1,510g. It comes in sizes XXS to 3XL…
