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Do you want to be on television?
Have you got an old bike laying around? A broken motorcycle cluttering up your shed? Fancy being part of a popular mainstream TV show? Here’s how to do it.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe, or Read FREE Online. The production company working on…
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Richard Hammond latest: ‘I’ve checked and I’m not dead’
The Grand Tour presenter has confirmed that he’s OK after being reportedly hurt during a motorbike crash in a remote part of Mozambique – he was knocked out in the crash whilst filming and miles from medical help. Thankfully, the latest news from Hammond himself is that he’s OK after his fall. Putting out a…
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Lorenzo launches attack on Rossi and Yamaha
Jorge Lorenzo has opened up about his time at Yamaha in a wide-swinging interview where the Majorcan claims that he wasn’t treated as well as teammate Valentino Rossi. In the quite astonishing interview for the website Marca the Ducati rider spoke about his former relationship with Rossi when the pair were racing for the Japanese factory: “Yamaha…
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Indian storms to first and second in the American Flat Track season opener
After a 63-year hiatus Indian has marked its first full season return to the American Flat Track with a 1st and 2nd place on the Scout FTR750.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe, or Read FREE Online. “You don’t know how special…
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Honda NM4 Vultus stars in new film ‘Ghost in the Shell’!
A few weeks ago we brought you the first picture of a futuristic Honda that Scarlett Johansson’s character The Major rides in the upcoming sci-fi blockbuster film Ghost in the Shell – and today it’s been announced that it was a custom Vultus NM4. Based on the internationally acclaimed Japanese manga, “Ghost in the Shell”…
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CHiPs Ducati goes under the hammer!
A Ducati Hypermotard 821 that was used in the 2017 feature length remake of the iconic TV series CHiPs is up for auction. We love the original TV series CHiPs, which ran on British screens (and lighted up our Saturday tea times) from 1977 to 1983, focusing on the Kawasaki-mounted adventures of two Californian policeman;…
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Ducati turnover and sales continue to grow
The year’s financial data presented at the AUDI AG annual press conference 55,451 motorcycles sold and €731 million turnover for Ducati in 2016 Claudio Domenicali, CEO of Ducati Motor Holding: “Solid growth once again demonstrates the effectiveness of our strategy” 2016 was another positive year for Ducati according to figures released by the Italian motorcycle giant.…
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Watch every video from Rhys Lawrey’s epic global journey on a Triumph Tiger
You may remember that we brought you the video diaries of Rhys Lawrey’s record-breaking round the world adventure with Triumph as the attempt was happening.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe, or Read FREE Online. Well, you can now re-live and re-watch the amazing…
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Launch ride: 2017 KTM 1290 Super Adventure S
The 1290 Super Adventure S is a hybrid. KTM has taken the more compact form of the 1190 Adventure, filled it with the 1290’s, 1301cc 158bhp motor, and reduced the tank size from 30 to 23 litres. And then it dropped the 1190 from the range. The rethink makes sense – the £10,999 1050 was…
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Africa Twin breaks altitude riding record for twin-cylinder bikes by riding up a volcano to 19,570ft!
Honda’s Africa Twin has reached new heights (guffaw) by breaking the record for the highest altitude reached by a twin-cylinder motorcycle.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe, or Read FREE Online. The scene of the record was the world’s highest active volcano, the…
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Video: Beardie plays the violin. Marquez and Pedrosa do some skids.
Err… what on earth is going on here? With the MotoGP season around the corner Honda’s released this ‘Sum of of talents’ video that shows a violinist in a warehouse with Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa. Yeah. It’s as odd as it sounds. And the beardie dude flick a visor down with the end of…
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KTM CONFIRMS production, fuel-injected 2-stroke enduro bikes being launched this MAY!
The KTM 250 EXC TPI and KTM 300 EXC TPI models will be introduced to the market as part of the model year 2018 line-up. KTM has said that it will unveil the world’s first production fuel injection 2-stroke Enduro bikes at an official launch in just two months.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes…
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HD reboot for cult gaming classic ‘Full Throttle’
The iconic 1996 biker-based adventure game Full Throttle is finally getting its long-awaited remaster for PC, PS4 and Playstation Vita, this April. Released by LucasArts in 1995, ‘Full Throttle’ is a classic point and click adventure game telling the story of biker Ben Throttle, leader of the Polecats, who gets caught up in a tale…
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PlasticRoad project: roads of the future?
Dutch company VolkerWessels has found a way to recycle plastic waste, and manufacture longer-lasting sustainable roads – revolutionising the current construction process. Rolf Mars, the director of VolkerWessels’ roads subdivision, KWS Infra, said: “Plastic offers all kinds of advantages compared to current road construction, both in laying the roads and maintenance.”Article continues below… Advert Enjoy…
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Gorgeous Ducati roadbike V4 CGI Mac-up appears in Japan
A while ago we were the first to bring you the news that Ducati’s boss, Claudio Domenicali had confirmed that the Italian factory is going to make a road-going version of its V4 MotoGP machine available to the public – and now our Japanese journalist friends have put together this piece of computer-generated gorgeousness on…
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MotoGP boss shock reveal: We’re going to run electric bikes in 2019 and it will be MotoGP teams vs Moto2!
MotoGP boss Carmelo Ezpeleta has made a huge announcement that the MotoGP championship is getting its own electric bike race series that will see MotoGP teams and Moto2 teams line up against each other. And it’ll happen in just two year’s time! Ezpeleta said: “We are going to do some electric races soon. It will…
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Now it’s Guy Martin: Education centre builder!
Over 50 local politicians, business leaders and development officers met with representatives of Guy Martin this week after he revealed plans for an educational centre and residential park north of Lincoln.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe, or Read FREE Online. At the closed-doors meeting on Monday, March…
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Limited Edition Jack Daniel’s Chieftain to go on sale – for just under £34,000!
There’s only 100 going on sale around the world, 10 are coming to Europe and just one will make it to the UK and if you want it then it’ll cost you a shade under £34,000!Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe, or…
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Here’s Yamaha’s production plans for its mass-production TWO WHEEL drive bike. Conventional motor at the back, electric motor at the front.
The patents on the designs have just been granted and by registering them Yamaha has given away one of the bikes that is likely to make up part of a future range.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe, or Read FREE Online. Article…
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Meet the KTM Unicycle. Yep.
As far as oddball things go, this is right up there. But there’s no getting away from the fact that this looks like a whole heap of fun mixed in with the potential for a broken limb or two… No, it’s not an actual thing coming from KTM, but it is a design idea that…
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Video: From the 1980s – Religion of Speed. It’s awesome.
If you find yourself with nearly ten minutes of down time today then park up and watch this great video. Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe, or Read FREE Online. Called: Religion of Speed it’s a pretty cheesy documentary about GP racing in…
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Video: John Surtees in conversation
In light of the passing of the racing legend John Surtees, we’ve decided to show you a video we made with the man a few years ago.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe, or Read FREE Online. During the interview, made in 2014,…
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John Surtees has died at the age of 83
Motorcycle and Formula One former world champion John Surtees has died at the age of 83, the Henry Surtees Foundation has confirmed. A statement from the Surtees family, issued on the Henry Surtees Foundation Facebook page, read: “It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our husband and father, John Surtees CBE.Article…
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Honda Africa Twin CRF1000L Rally revealed
Honda has revealed a new version of its top-selling Africa Twin CRF1000L, the lightweight and Dakar-inspired Honda Africa Twin CRF1000L Rally! It’s based on the Africa Twin Enduro concept first displayed at the Eicma show in Milan, Italy, last year. The new Rally model was on display at the Moto Days exhibition in Rome, Italy –…
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