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Pizza wheelie crasher kid gets the sack AND police could prosecute for scooter slip
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Pizza wheelie crasher kid gets the sack AND police could prosecute for scooter slip. Last month we brought you the video footage of a Domino’s pizza delivery scooter rider losing control of a wheelie and dumping both bike and food in the middle of a Clapham street. Well now, four weeks after the footage was…
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2017 Ducati’s secret SUPER superbike. Details on the £66,000 ‘Project 1408’ PUKKA MotoGP-esque 220bhp bike leaked. Going after the RCV…
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2017 Ducati SUPER superbike. Details on the £66,000 ‘Project 1408’ PUKKA MotoGP-esque 220bhp bike leaked. Going after the RCV… Ducati is going to launch a ‘super’ 1299 Panigale at the Milan Show under the codename ‘Project 1408’ -and it promises to be an absolute WSB-mashing level of spec. According to insiders, the 155kg…
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Yamaha launches 2017 X-MAX 300 super scooter
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Yamaha launches 2017 X-MAX 300 super scooter. Yamaha has just launched this – it’s new X-MAX 300 scooter. Billed by the Japanese factory as a sport scooter, the city (which is based on the popular X-MAX 250) machine gets Yamaha’s Blue Core tech and a new keyless system. We’ve got all the words from Yamaha…
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Video: 2017 Ducati Scramblers get their own teaser films – the Desert Sled bike and the Cafe Racer model
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Video: 2017 Ducati Scramblers get their own teaser films – the Desert Sled bike and the Cafe Racer model. Do you remember when we told you – a month ago – that there were SIX versions of Ducati Scramblers coming out for 2017? Click HERE for our original, first story. Well, Ducati has released a…
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Wayne Gardner arrested for alleged road rage incident at Motegi
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Former 500cc GP World Champion Wayne Gardner was arrested yesterday (Sunday) after an alleged road rage incident in Japan. The 57-year old who won the sport’s crown in 1987 and was at the event in support of his son Remy, who finished 19th in the Moto2 race, was reported as being involved in an…
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Italian government to SLASH cost of back protectors and airbag systems for bikers by 50%
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Italian law makers are looking at slashing a huge 50% off the price of large body armour parts for motorcyclists. The move is proposed to cut up to half the cost of both back protectors and wearable airbag systems. According to reports in the Italian media this morning, the move is a first-step to approving…
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BSB: Byrne romps to another BSB title
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By Philip Wain The curtain came down on the 2016 British Superbike Championship at Brands Hatch at the weekend and whilst it wasn’t quite the cliffhanger we’d hoped for, it was certainly dramatic! As perhaps we could have expected, the British weather played its part with only one of the three races going the full…
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MotoGP: Pedrosa fractures collarbone in crash during FP2
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Dani Pedrosa looks to be out of this weekend’s Japanese MotoGP round at Motegi, Japan after suffering a fracture to his right collarbone. The Spaniard suffered an horrendous crash in Free Practice 2 at the event and the injury has now been confirmed by the Repsol team.
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2017 Yamaha R6 – all the information direct from Yamaha, right HERE
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Here’s all the information from Yamaha about its 2017 Yamaha R6 – we’ve taken this directly from the bumf direct from the factory. it’s going to be a bit wordy, but this is EVERYTHING about the bike that Yamaha is telling the world right now. And now you have it, too.
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Yamaha 2017 R6 – specs are HERE (no power figures yet though)
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OK, so we’re rushing this out a bit – but that’s because we want to give you this information as quickly as we’ve got it off Yamaha – so here’s the actual detail document from Yamaha about its new 2017 R6. The bike is 190kg (wet) but there’s no power figure for it yet.…
