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SCOOP 2016 Kawasaki ZX-10R pics surface in Japan
The quality of these pics isn’t great, but we want to show you them anyway (because we know that you’re as interested in this sort of thing as we are!).Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe, or Read FREE Online. According to top…
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Podcast 24: Off-duty and off the cuff with Sam and Alex Lowes
MoreBikes’ Editor, Tony, spent some time with the fastest twins on the planet. The three of them have been a daft unit since the lads started racing and rather than bother any racetrack they decided to go golfing. What follows is a rambling hour (nearly) of time with the Lowes boys – two of the…
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SCOOP Three tweaked CVO Harley-Davidson 2016 bikes revealed
As part of the 2016 range, there are three tweaked CVO models in the Harley-Davidson range. Harley has said that for the new range all models get tyre-pressure monitoring systems, a new key fob that combines the luggage locks and bike alarm system and all indicators on all the bikes are now LED as standard.…
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SCOOP two 2016 Harleys get CVO motor as standard
For the 2016 range, Harley-Davidson is launching two versions of models with the 110ci CVO-based Screamin’ Eagle engine. That motor was only previously available on the CVO range, but for next year both the Softail Slim and Fat Boy models get ‘S’ options – the S denoting the new lump.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything…
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SCOOP Harley-Davidson brings back the Ultra Glide for 2016
Harley-Davidson is bringing the Ultra Glide back to the range for 2016. So here’s the rub from the yanks: the bike gets the firm’s “precision liquid cooled” 103ci engine that has so far been fitted to the biggest touring bikes from Milwaukee. Harley says the “twin cooled” engine enables a higher 10.1:1 compression ratio for increased…
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SCOOP KTM 800 Duke spotted out testing
Oh wow, pictures have surfaced in the German magazine Motorrad (and here’s the page, sent to us by a good German friend) of the 2016 KTM Duke 800. Earlier this year we heard Stefan Pierer, KTM CEO and President, hint towards two new KTM models and this is the first of them – there is…
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SCOOP Kawasaki sources say supercharged ZX-6R on its way!
Back on July 28 we exclusively told you that Kawasaki had just registered a new patent for a SECOND supercharged motorcycle. Information on which motorcycle the unit is being put on is scarce – in fact there is no information on the actual bike for this revised unit and other than the fact that this…
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VIDEO Mega deep river crossing on Ural sidecars!
Here’s a mega fun video for you on to enjoy – take some Ural sidecar outfits, have some Russian lads doing a weird tour in the wildlands and then throw in a river to cross. Honestly, we reckon this is one of the most potentially dangerous things we’ve ever seen on a bike (and certainly…
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VIDEO Official onboard TT lap on the H2R. Turn up the volume!
Check out this awesome onboard video of the Kawasaki H2R on the Isle of Man earlier this year. The bike didn’t race at the event but was put around The Mountain Course by James Hillier as a display lap for excited fans.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper.…
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Yamaha insider says MT-07 Tracer postponed a year!
Yamaha sources have spoken to us to tell us that the MT-07 Tracer, the model that is the smaller sibling of the sales-success MT-09 Tracer, will now NOT be part of the Japanese firm’s 2016 line-up. None of what we’ve been told is on the record, but the information is that because Yamaha is at…
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VIDEO Cooking your lunch on a Ducati engine
So what do you do when you’re off for a ride on your Ducati Scrambler and Monster and just can’t stomach any more tired service station food?Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe, or Read FREE Online. You do what these Swedes did…
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New 200bhp+ Confederate revealed – if you’ve got £70k to spend…
This is the latest motorcycle for the mega-rich from American company Confederate Motors. The second-gen Confederate P51 Combat Fighter (snappy name…) is the last bike that design guru Pierre Terblanche did for the company before leaving. The man with the pens and ideas is now at Royal Enfield.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes…
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Biker gets hit by lightning!
A bike rider in Colorado, America, says he’s feeling ‘pretty good’ after being hit by lightning whilst riding his along a motorway. Eugene Villines (pictured below) from Greeley, Colorado was riding home from his job as a Army National Guard member when he said he saw just one dark cloud in the sky above him.Article…
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Guy Martin shock: Top Gear, Strictly Come Dancing and trucks!
Guy Martin has told the Belfast Telegraph that he’s unlikely to be doing television for much longer, sparking rumours that the 33-year-old has already ruled himself out of being part of the new Top Gear presenting team on BBC2. He also talked about what could happen to him if he went down the full-time TV…
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SCOOP new 650cc ‘mini-BMW’ type CFMoto tourer on the way
Here’s the latest leaked design images of the next generation CFMoto 650TK tourer that show how the chinese-made, mid-price tourer is about to go down the BMW styling route for a sharper, more euro-friendly look. There’s new bodywork with a re-styled nose, new suspension (upside down forks), new tail unit and a new fuel tank.…
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SCOOP funky 32bhp, 205cc single bike spotted testing
What do you think to this, an Indian-made bike that makes 32bhp from a 205cc single-cylinder, liquid-cooled motor. Snapped by Ajay Singh Rawat in Delhi for our friends at Motoroids, the Mahindra Mojo bike was out in action for final pre-production shakedown city riding. It’s expected to go on sale later this year and at…
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SCOOP Awesome ZX10R scrambler pics go public
Oh, how we like these. From the team at Holographic Hammer comes three gorgeous designs for cafe racers made from ZX10R Kawasakis.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe, or Read FREE Online. Yes, they may only be drawings (of the very highest quality),…
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VIDEO: Motocross on a Harley-Davidson
We love this. It isn’t new, but it’s made us laugh and doff our collective caps to the man with an idea. So we thought we’d show this video to you, too. Motocross dude Chris Palermo wanted to enter the A Day in the Dirt off-road event on something different, wacked a set of knobblies…
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Oh good gravy… Bonneville has been cancelled! Again!
A month ago the Bonneville Speed Week event was cancelled, last week the Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials were back on with ‘a tentative go’ – this week the latest news from the salty land is that everything is finally off. After loads of to-ing and fro-ing there will now not be any motorcycle speed records…
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Meet Cal Crutchlow in person
Calling all Cal Crutchlow fans (and there’s a LOT of you out there!) – your favourite rider is making a guest appearance at P&H Motorcycles in Crawley, West Sussex next Tuesday. P&H has the MotoGP megastar at its showroom on the 25th August in the run up to the British round of MotoGP as part…
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SCOOP Guy Martin Land Speed Record – It’s off until 2016!
Oh bugger. We’ve just been sent this from Triumph’s office. Not entirely a surprise, but we still feel sad for the lad. It’s a better situation that he gets well and then goes to bag the record for Blighty with Triumph in that 1000bhp Streamliner missile though…Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by…
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Guy Martin’s new book: ‘When You Dead, You Dead’
Mere days after Guy Martin’s dramatic crash at the Dunrod 150 Superbike race, Virgin Books has announced the release of his new book, entitled ‘When You Dead, You Dead’. Detailing the events of his life, especially his busy last year, he mentions racing the Isle of Man TT, finishing on the podium; competing in solo…
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AMA do turnaround on Bonneville Land Speed course – now it’s back on!
Last month, the famous Bonneville Speed Week was cancelled because of the condition of the salt. An official announcement from SCTA (Southern California Timing Association) on July 22 from President Bill Latin and the BNI Chairman Roy Creel who inspected the course said that they had found that the salt was not in good enough…
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Guy Martin now back at home and recovering from broken back
Great news everyone. Guy Martin is now back at home and beginning the long recovery road after breaking his back at the Dundrod 150 road race last week. Guy traveled back to Lincolnshire with his dad, Ian, and girlfriend Sharon Comiskey yesterday and arrived at home in the evening.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More…
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