China
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Video: Apocalyptic near miss for biker at Chinese road junction
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There’s near misses and then there’s nearly being squished into a fine paste by two lorries crashing into your big scooter at 30mph… Check out this amazing, if somewhat grainy. footage from CCTV cameras in Nantong, China. In the film you can see a scooter rider pull up to the junction and then drop his…
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Fancy being a Ducati ‘torch bearer’ one of seven people riding a relay around the world for the Italian bike maker?
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Ducati has sent us this information about a global relay-ride that the firm is holding which will see a Multistrada 1200 Enduro ridden around the world – cool enough – but what they are looking for are SEVEN riders from the general public who will make up the riding team. And you could be one…
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Meet the Chinese R3 copy that’s gone up to 350cc and gets four silencers!
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Meet the Chinese R3 copy that’s gone up to 350cc and gets four silencers! Check this out for the latest, probably most blatant copy we’ve seen coming out China yet. No, it’s not a Yamaha R3 but a 350cc (we think) copy of the Japanese bike, another mystery bike is pictured alongside and that looks…
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Video: Shocking moment huge gravel truck unloads onto biker and pillion (everyone is OK, miraculously)
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Video: Shocking moment huge gravel truck unloads onto biker and pillion (everyone is OK, miraculously). This is the terrifying moment a motorcyclist and pillion in China were nearly crushed under a huge truck full of gravel. Captured on CCTV cameras mounted above the junction, you can see the driver realise that the motorcycle was…
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New sports touring tyre from Metzeler
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Metzeler has launched a new sports touring tyre, the Roadtec 01. Metzeler calls this a sports touring tyre developed to offer class leading levels of grip in all weather conditions, perfect for sports touring, naked/sports bikes and adventure machines. The manufacturer also promises high-mileage and consistent ‘wear’ as well as stability at high speed and…
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Video: Guy Martin talks crash, pork scratchings, museums and the future
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Guy Martin might be all over the place at the moment, promoting his new book ‘When You Dead, You Dead’ but here’s a decent video interview with the lad that you might want to watch. In it Guy talks about the Ulster GP crash in the Dundrod 150 race where he broke his back, he…
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Guy Martin pulls out of Macau road race this year
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Guy Martin pulls out of Macau road race this year. Guy Martin has pulled out of the Macau GP just a day after trying to enter the treacherous road race in China. Martin has sited continuing issues with his physical rehabilitation after his 130mph crash in the Dundrod 150 at the Ulster GP meeting as…
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SHOCK news: Guy Martin to race again at treacherous Macau roads circuit just 14 weeks after breaking back
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SHOCK news: Guy Martin to race again at treacherous Macau roads circuit just 14 weeks after breaking back Guy Martin is to make his RETURN to racing 14 weeks after he broke his back in the Ulster GP event. In early August Guy,33, broke his back, smashed his sternum and suffered very serious shoulder injuries…
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SCOOP: Mega monkey bike designs surface
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This is the cad cam design that shows the next bike to come from CFMoto – and it shows that the Chinese firm thinks that the super-Monkey bike styling is the way to go. Based around a 125 or 150cc air-cooled motor this bike is all new. The firm also announced that recent designs…
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Rhys gets to Ireland – almost home for 2mororider
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Our Rhys Lawrey, aka 2mororider, is almost at the end of his world-record-smshing global ride after 15 months of riding on his Triumph Tiger 800. Riding more than 56,000 miles through 70 countries, he has survived a collision with a car in China, food poisoning in Kazakhstan, extreme bureaucracy and terrible roads in Turkmenistan and…
