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Alpinestars unveils its new Tech-Air compatible Revenant adventure touring jacket
Revenant GORE-TEX Pro Jacket: £849.99 + Tech-Air Street Airbag: £999.99 Alpinestars has just unveiled its new, fully-featured adventure touring jacket – the Revenant – that’s been built to withstand extreme weather and riding conditions. It’s from an advanced GORE-TEX fabric, which helps to offer breathability, waterproofing and windproofing. And for added protection, the jacket is…
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Burt Munro Bonneville Salt Flats Tee from Indian
Indian Motorcycles has just announced its new long-sleeved tee, which pays homage to Burt Munro’s 183.59mph record on the Bonneville Salt Flats. Cool right? For more information, visit: www.indianmotorcycle.euArticle continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe, or Read FREE Online.
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BAD ASS BOBBER
A couple of issues ago we told you about Black Kat Kustoms, the brainchild of Tracey and Andrew Dyke from Shropshire, a leatherworking and bike building husband and wife team. Pictures: Simon EverettArticle continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe, or Read FREE Online. Despite…
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Rent a KTM for this year’s International Six Days Enduro
KTM has announced it’ll be running a bike rental service for this year’s ISDE, which takes place in Viña del Mar, Chile from November 12-17, 2018. As the event’s exclusive partner, KTM will be in Chile with a range of services on offer for professional and amateur riders alike – offering KTM machines for rent,…
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Trump criticises India’s 50% import tariff on Harley-Davidson motorcycles
During a discussion with members of Congress, US President Donald Trump has criticised India for imposing a high import duty on Harley-Davidson motorcycles – and threatened to increase the tariff on the “thousands and thousands” of Indian motorcycles imported to the US. Trump said the recent decision of the Indian government to reduce the tariff…
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Honda RC166 Mike Hailwood Replica from Tapei
Tapei-based bike builder 1996 Biker Custom of Taipei has created its own version of Mike Hailwood’s infamous Honda RC166. For the uninitiated, the iconic RC166 helped Honda and Hailwood dominate the world of racing in the 1960s, with its high-revving, lightweight 6-cylinder, 250cc, air cooled machine kicking out 56.8bhp. And it’s not a surprise Hailwood…
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VIDEO: Inside Britain’s Moped Crime Gangs
BBC Three has delved deep into the British underworld, spending time with some of London’s moped gangs. Click HERE to watch Inside Britain’s Moped Crime Gangs Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe, or Read FREE Online. The thieves use mopeds to sneak up…
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VIDEO: Lewis Hamilton takes to the track with Cal Crutchlow
Three-time Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton has been out to Southern California with his MotoGP mate, Cal Crutchlow – taking to Chuckwalla Valley Raceway on a Kawasaki ZX-10R. https://www.facebook.com/LewisHamilton/videos/1957563197658332/ Hamilton has long been a fan of motorcycle racing and has enjoyed a fruitful collaboration with MV Agusta recently, helping to design several motorcycles including…
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VIDEO: FIRST RIDE – Yamaha MT-07 (2018)
We’ve been out to Malaga for the launch of the 2018 Yamaha MT-07. Fresh off the bike after 240km of riding, here’s our man Tony Carter with a few first thoughts. Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe, or Read FREE Online.
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VIDEO: Rea vs Sykes on the new Ninja 400
Kawasaki has released an awesome piece of film, showing Jonathan Rea and Tom Sykes getting to grips with the new Ninja 400. The new Ninja 400 comes from good stock – with its sporty styling inspired by its race-ready siblings and its new 399cc powerplant, which has been designed to provide top level performance when…
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Harley-Davidson files ‘H-D Revelation’ Trademark for its Electric Tech
Harley-Davidson has just filed an application to trademark the name “H-D Revelation” – for its batteries, chargers, and motorcycle powertrains. We reckon the “Revelation” is going to be the name of the engine (or family of engines) that will power the H-D electric bike that has been confirmed for production within the next 18 months…
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VIDEO: FIRST LOOK – 2018 Yamaha MT-07
We’re in Malaga for the launch of the 2018 Yamaha MT-07. Around 75bhp and £6,500 ish OTR. Riding it today on a route that should really show off the middleweight’s handling. Keen? We’re mustard
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Video: PGM V8 – The world’s most powerful production motorcycle?
Out of Australia comes the new PGM V8 motorcycle, powered by two Yamaha R1 engines. Pat Maloney is the man behind the new PGM V8. Maloney is an Australian engineer who previously worked with the F1 Sauber team, and helped develop the three-cylinder Petronas engine for MotoGP that ended up in WSBK. He now runs…
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FIRST LOOK: Kalex has the Triumph 765cc motor in its Moto2 bike. And it’s bench testing the beast right now. Here’s some video too. STUNNING!
“These are the first images of the motorcycle with the Triumph engine in the test bench. At the moment, everything works. We have mounted a standard motor, but with the right oil pan, in addition to a standard control unit,” said the CEO of Kalex, Alexandre Baumgärtel to the Speedweek.com website. It’s way early in the development of the Moto2…
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Behind the scenes of the new Vespa Electtrica
Our friends at Motociclismo Italy have spent some with Antonio Cappellini, Vespa’s Product Development Manager, to find out about the new Vespa Electtrica. How long have you been working on this electric Vespa?Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe, or Read FREE Online. “The…
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Honda CB750 – 50th Anniversary Celebration
The first Honda CB750 was launched at the Tokyo Motor Show in October 1968 – and this year celebrates its 50th Anniversary. To celebrate, a special CB750 SOHC Celebration Day will be held at The David Silver Honda Collection museum in Leiston, Suffolk on Saturday 29th September 2018. To commemorate the special occasion, David Silver’s…
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VIDEO: Richard Hammond rides a TVS Star HLX across Mozambique for the Grand Tour Season Finale
Famed for their four-wheeled TV endeavours, the chaps from the Grand Tour occasionally decide to opt for two-wheels instead – and in the season finale, Richard Hammond took a TVS Star HLX across Mozambique. For the Grand Tour season finale, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May decided to end world hunger (and by world,…
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Alaska to Argentina on an electric motorcycle?
A team of three determined travellers are planning to undertake the longest ever expedition undertaken on electric motorcycles – hoping to ride from Prudhoe Bay in Alaska all the way to Tierra del Fuego in Argentina. The Expedition Electric team are aiming to travel 25,000 miles through fifteen different countries using custom-built electric motorcycles. It…
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Arai unveils its new Isle of Man TT RX-7V for 2018
Arai has unveiled its new Isle of Man TT helmet for 2018 – adorning its full face top of line sports helmet, the RX-7V, with the iconic red and black TT graphics. The first Arai helmet to celebrate the TT was presented way back in 2007, marking 100 years of road racing on iconic mountain…
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VIDEO: Elbow down is so last year… it’s all about the ‘bars down now…
Check out this video from Alta Motors showing its bikes being worked pretty hard. The film last just over a minute and a half and there’s a cracking bit of ‘bar sliding going on around the 30 second mark. We like it.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper.…
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Next-gen Hayabusa: Suzuki patents semi-automatic transmission for the bike
News has emerged Stateside of a series of patents from Suzuki that has the next-generation Hayabusa fitted with a semi-automatic transmission. Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe, or Read FREE Online. The patents have been filed by the Japanese company with three sets…
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VIDEO: Max Anstie and Gautier Paulin get to grips with the 2018 Rockstar Energy Husqvarna Factory Racing MXGP machines
Husqvarna Motorcycles has released an official pre-season video of the Rockstar Energy Husqvarna Factory Racing MXGP team, showing team riders Gautier Paulin and Max Anstie getting to grips with their new rides ahead of the 2018 season. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhdawTNqSPM Following a solid debut season aboard FC 450 machinery in which he secured third in the 2017…
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VIDEO: Bristol bike thieves torch 1951 Triumph Thunderbird
Bike thieves in Bristol set fire to a stolen 1951 Triumph Thunderbird, after demanding £1,000 in ransom from its owner. The group took to the ‘biketakerrr’ Instagram page, bragging about being in possession of the bike, and threatened to burn it, unless the owner paid them £1,000 for its safe return. After failing to pay,…
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Dumb and Dumber mini-bike goes under the hammer
One of the mini bikes used for the close-up riding shots in the Farrelly Brothers classic comedy Dumb and Dumber is going under the hammer – offering the chance to get your hands on a piece of movie motorcycling history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYCwIxdSRQs In fact, there’s only one more bike still in existence – that was gifted to…
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