2018
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PRODUCTS: Dainese Cyclone D-Air jacket
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RRP: £1,699.95 // Sizes: 38” – 48” // Colours: Black, White/Black, Red Airbag technology for motorcyclists has made leaps and bounds over the last few years. No longer the preserve of professional racers, if you’re happy to spend some serious cash, you could get your hands on some of the most revolutionary life-saving kit to…
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Ducati to auction twelve Panigale V4’s from its ‘Race of Champions’
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Twelve race-configured Ducati Panigale V4 S bikes will be going under the hammer straight after World Ducati Week’s ‘Race of Champions’. They’ll be ridden by veritable who’s who of Ducati racing – including Dovizioso, Lorenzo, Petrucci, Miller, Davies, Melandri, Rinaldi, Pirro, Abraham, Rabatand Fores, in addition to Ducati legend, Troy Bayliss – and will…
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VIDEO: Off-road LEGEND Malcolm Smith’s EPIC garage
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Malcolm Smith is one of the world’s pre-eminent off-road racers – making a name for himself in the ‘60s and ‘70s with his dirt-based exploits and contribution to the iconic On Any Sunday documentary. And he’s just released a brilliant video, showing some of the most significant machines from his long and storied career. …
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CSC’s Grom-inspired electric ‘City Slicker’
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Californian motorcycle manufacturer CSC has just unveiled its new electric motorcycle – and it looks fairly close to a little Honda Grom. Admittedly, CSC does not build the bikes in California. They’re actually manufactured by Chinese two-wheeled giant Zongshen, with input from CSC on design and specifications. It’s a compact machine, measuring 1.8m in length,…
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Team Kagayama’s Suzuki Katana Racer. WOW.
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Team KAGAYAMA’s Kusakayama Takeshi recently won the Taste of Tsukuba SATSUKI STAGE on this awesome Suzuki Katana racer – which has been built from the bones of a GSX-R1000 and an old Katana. Team KAGAYAMA’s Katana has been built around the original frame of a GSX 1100 S Katana, with a GSX-R1000 L5 power plant –…
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WATCH THIS VIDEO: The desert dunes of Morocco with the Tènèrè 700 World Raid
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Yamaha has released an awesome video showing the 700 Tenèrè World Raid in action out in the Moroccan desert. It’s bloody superb. Picking up the reins from Rodney Faggotter (who showed off the bike in Australia), six-time Dakar champion Stephane Peterhansel has been riding the Yamaha Tènèrè 700 World Raid around the dunes of the…
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BMW R nineT ‘Giggerl’ Custom Project. It’s MAD.
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Austrian bike-builder Bernhard Naumann has built chopped and changed BMW’s R nineT – and come up with this mental custom project called the Giggerl. Naumann built the Giggerl on behalf of BMW Motorrad for the 2018 Soul Food event at Neukirchen, Austria. And he’s called it the Giggerl because it reminds him of a…
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EVENTS: Test Ride Yamaha’s 2019 YZ models on the MX Pro Tour
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The Yamaha MX Pro Tour is coming to Apex Motocross in Worcester, offering the chance to try out the all-new 2019 Yamaha YZ250F – the most sophisticated model in its class, featuring a newly designed high-performance electric start engine, an agile new chassis and wireless connectivity and trackside tunability with its Yamaha Power Tuner smartphone…
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Yamaha unveil all-new TWO-STROKE ‘crossers
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Yamaha has just revealed its all-new YZ85 two-stroke motocross machine – which use Yamaha’s Power Valve System (YPVS). Plus, it has also revealed the return of its iconic YZ125 and YZ250. Our friends Young Machine, Japan has just sent us details of Yamaha’s all-new YZ85 two-stroke competition motocross machine which uses YPVS. But what is…
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EVENTS: Suzuki announce CLASSIC trackday at Cadwell Park
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Suzuki has announced that it will host a classic Suzuki-themed trackday at Cadwell Park on September 13 – in partnership with its Vintage Parts Programme. Spots are available for £125 – and will be open to all Suzuki machinery manufactured before 2000, with riders able to book into one of four groups – novice, two-strokes,…
