Future
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SPY SHOTS: Here’s Triumph’s 2020 Tiger XR that we’ve just caught on the road. Oooooh…
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Ok, so we first showed you these snaps a couple of weeks ago – but in case you missed them, here’s a look at Triumph’s Tiger XR variant for 2020 which was caught on camera by our spy snapper. We’ve already shown you the first shots of the new Tiger with a bigger capacity motor,…
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FIRST PHOTOS: Harley-Davidson’s 2020 Streetfighter and Pan America Adventure bike snapped in FINISHED form!
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The newshounds at top Dutch site Nieuwsmotor have bagged this brace of photos from a H-D dealer conference showing the American brand’s two big hitters for next year, the Adventure bike Pan America and the big-muscles Streetfighter. We’ve seen both of these bikes before of course, when the USA firm first unveiled these bikes as…
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Here’s the OFFICIAL designs for Suzuki’s Supermono single-cylinder!
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Could the Japanese factory really be looking to push out a single-cylinder motorcycle that is similar in idea to the classic Ducati from 20 years ago? According to a couple of patent applications that have surfaced in the States on outlets Cycle World and Asphalt & Rubber, yep. What we can see from the drawings…
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SECRET PLANS: Kawasaki’s BATTERY-powered Ninja 400.
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What do you think to this Kawasaki BATTERY-POWERED Ninja 400 that hinges the ‘engine’ unit out of the left side of the machine in one smooth movement? The patent’s from a couple of years ago – but we thought we’d remind you about this seriously clever concept, in light of the widespread uptake of electric…
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Ooooh! New patents squeak out for the Honda six-cylinder retro cafe racer. Yeah, six-cylinder.
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We’ve told you before that this bike was coming and to be fair, we could waffle on about what we’ve found with these latest patents – but you can see things in these images as well as we can – so let’s keep it brief. Here’s the new patents that show the upcoming Honda model…
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Honda’s future Gold Wing is getting stereoscopic cameras for your safety. Ain’t that nice?
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Fresh patents from Honda show the touring behemoth equipped with a pair of cameras in the front fairing that will enable the bike’s safety automation to take over if it senses a collision. Safety systems based on avoiding a collision with a vehicle or pedestrian, running out of lane on a motorway, recognising road signs…
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Suzuki’s future single cylinder roadster revealed
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Two design patents have appeared showing a compact bike is on the way. Fresh from Asia comes news of a new, small capacity motorcycle from Suzuki. There’s very little in the way of information about the bike (other than was can be seen in the designs) but our friends in the ’emerging markets’ like Asia…
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There’s a KTM 500 on the way. And it’s been confirmed by the big boss of the Austrian firm!
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Following on from the frank interview with Speedweek.com that we brought you recently READ THAT ARTICLE BY CLICKING HERE which blew the doors wide open over speculation that KTM could end up owning Ducati, how about THESE for some extra interesting future model titbits from boss Stefan Pierer? The KTM CEO has revealed what’s coming…
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Ford invents cars that look for filtering motorcyclists and then stay out of their way automatically!
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Ford has invented a system that constantly looks for motorcycles filtering between lanes, works out how quickly they are approaching and automatically STOPS a car or van from changing lanes if the motorcycle is too close!The set-up that has been filed by the factory for inclusion on future cars, works by having two cameras on…
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Honda’s hydrogen motorcycle: More patents appear – this time pointing towards production
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Here’s the latest patent drawings from Honda’s R&D office giving us more detail about the company’s upcoming hydrogen motorcycle. In the designs the bike’s rear wheel electric motor is shown in detail, as is the single-sided swingarm. There is no indication on the physical size of the bike, but given the outline drawing’s proportions this…
