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Updated Honda CB1300 with Ohlins suspension and Brembo brakes – inspired by the CB750F
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There’s been talk that an updated CB1300 is in the works – and that it’ll come kitted out with a range of sport performance bits and pieces. Our mates Young Machine in Japan has fired over some mocked up images of the CB1300 SP, based on what’s been said about the updated model so far.…
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Honda’s planning a Rebel cruiser with a 1000cc Africa Twin motor inside. Plus some nice prototype – type styling touches
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Honda has filed designs for an Africa Twin-powered big Rebel cruiser. The plans for the upcoming easy rider aper have been uncovered by our friends at YoungMachine in Japan who took the designs and photoshopped up what the bike will end up looking like. The Rebel 1000 shares most of its styling queues with…
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MotoGP: Hammer down: Jorge Lorenzo fastest, Marc Marquez 12th
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Mugello race winner Jorge Lorenzo (Ducati Team) was the man to beat on the opening day at the Gran Premi Monster Energy de Catalunya, ending FP2 top of the timesheets after setting a 1:38.930 – the only rider to step under the 1:39 bracket. The Spaniard improved his time by over 0.8 seconds from…
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MotoGP: Dani Pedrosa to announce retirement at Catalunya GP this Thursday (rumour)
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We brought you this story last week but given all the TT news that was happening around it, figured a few of you might have missed it. In case you did, here’s the hot-trot rumour going around MotoGP paddock right now… There’s been no official confirmation or denial so far from Dani Pedrosa or any…
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EWC: Video of Greg Leblanc manfully getting a mashed Fireblade back to the pits
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Check out this video from the 8-Hour race at Oschersleben at the weekend. The footage shows Honda’s Greg Leblanc stuffing this Honda Endurance Racing 111 very quickly near the end of the race. As ever with the endurance lads, Leblanc wasn’t for sitting out the remainder of the race and gets to his feet sharpish…
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MotoGP: Dani Pedrosa is leaving Honda at the end of this season
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Dani Pedrosa has confirmed that he is leaving Honda at the end of this MotoGP season. After 18 years together across three classes in the MotoGP World Championship, HRC and Pedrosa have just made the mutual announcement. The two have enjoyed an incredibly successful relationship and since 2006, when the Spaniard joined the Repsol Honda Team, he…
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First Ride: Honda CMX500 Rebel
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Reviving the Rebel: Honda’s iconic smaller capacity cruiser Honda’s new, novice-friendly middleweight cruiser, the CMX500 Rebel, joins the popular CBR500F sportster, CB500F roadster and CB500X adventure styled bike in Honda’s entry level family of easy-going 500cc twins. They’ve all been designed around the same 47bhp 471cc parallel twin engine and tubular steel frame – but…
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VIDEO: Getting under the skin of Honda’s WSB CBR1000RR’s electronics
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Electronics play an increasing important role in the racing world – but to an outsider looking in, it’s difficult to understand just what’s going on. And so, Honda has released a video of Vincente Pechuan Vilar, Electronics Coordinator at Honda, getting under the skin of the World Superbike CBR1000RR Fireblade SP2.
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Honda unveils its road-legal CRF450L
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Building on the successes of Honda’s CRF450R moto-crosser and its iconic CRF250L dual-sport, Honda has just unveiled its all new road-legal CRF450L. It is unmistakably a race-bred CRF – but it comes with all the necessary modifications to make it both road legal and supremely useable in a trail environment. As such, the CRF450L is…
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VIDEO: Talking tyres and the TT with sidecar supremo’s – the Birchall Brothers
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Mansfield-based brothers Ben and Tom Birchall will be aiming for their seventh sidecar victory at the Isle of Man TT over the next couple of weeks. And Avon Tyres caught up with them before they headed across to the iconic event in the middle of the Irish Sea – to find out just what it…
