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  • Kawasaki’s plans for the R2 supercharger revealed in tech drawings – easy to ride, big power on tap, quiet

    Kawasaki’s plans for the R2 supercharger revealed in tech drawings – easy to ride, big power on tap, quiet

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    These are the latest drawings from inside Kawasaki that give us the clearest indication yet of what the R2 road bike is going to be like. We’ve seen a side-on drawing of the bike that will join the factory stable as a smaller sibling to the H2R before and while this side-on view looks no…

  • Video: ANOTHER CBR250RR promo teaser is OUT and it DOES have the piggyback exhausts we showed you last week! Yeah!

    Video: ANOTHER CBR250RR promo teaser is OUT and it DOES have the piggyback exhausts we showed you last week! Yeah!

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    Another video promo for the upcoming Honda CBR250RR has been launched – this time you can see more of the quarter-litre bike although it’s clearly a longer cut of the video we saw for the first time a couple of weeks ago. And the bike DOES indeed have the piggyback exhausts that we told you…

  • Video: Honda ADV scooter promo video is launched by Honda. Looks pretty cool.

    Video: Honda ADV scooter promo video is launched by Honda. Looks pretty cool.

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    While we wait to see the ADV Adventure-concept scooter launched later this year, Honda is getting the promo ball rolling with this video. You can’t see much of the bike that we brought you pictures of testing just a couple of weeks ago in Spain (here that is): But you do get to see some…

  • Video: Is your helmet bulletproof?

    Video: Is your helmet bulletproof?

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    We’ve been liking this video recently, just because – let’s face it – if we all had some guns and a crashed-in helmet, and were somewhere we could do this safely, we’d all want to see if the lid would stand up to this sort of stuff. The video’s been posted by the guys at…

  • Benelli declared bankrupt by Italian court

    Benelli declared bankrupt by Italian court

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    Benelli declared bankrupt by Italian court. Benelli has been declared bankrupt. The court order about bankruptcy was made despite Benelli’s parent company, the chinese firm Qianjiang (Q.J.) Group offering to pay the outstanding debt of  120,000 euros to WP Suspension. In the process of the bankrupt ruling a trustee has confiscated stock of bikes in…

  • Video: New Givi ad is styling off-road on the Africa Twin

    Video: New Givi ad is styling off-road on the Africa Twin

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    Check out this video released by luggage company Givi. It’s of an Africa Twin kitted out with the company’s panniers, topbax and tankbag being put through its paces. It’s an ad, but at more than a minute long it’s a pretty good ad with the Honda looking bang tidy in action – and it gets…

  • Promo-pic for Honda CBR250RR appears in Indonesia

    Promo-pic for Honda CBR250RR appears in Indonesia

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    This has just popped up from one of our Indonesian chums, it’s the newest promo pic of the Honda CBR250RR. The lo-res pic of a pic doesn’t really show us too much, but it has got us a bit more excited about the imminent launch of the super sporty quarter-litre machine. In the southern hemisphere…

  • Video: Kenny vs Randy in the USA, 1985 – check out the wheelies!

    Video: Kenny vs Randy in the USA, 1985 – check out the wheelies!

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    Seen this? We love this! We love the showboating. The wheelies. The people involved. The bikes. The place. The cornball music. The Japanese narrator. The whole shebang. Watch it all the way through. Happy Friday! https://youtu.be/J7_WAeCe8oE

  • Video: Harley and the Davidsons trailer – well worth a watch, it’s awesome!

    Video: Harley and the Davidsons trailer – well worth a watch, it’s awesome!

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    Check out this brilliant trailer for an upcoming three-part mini-series that will be shown on the Discovery channel: https://youtu.be/7PnNwYkbn2o   Being broadcast over three consecutive nights in September, the six-hour-long film tells the story of how Harley-Davidson began with the familiar tale of William Harley and Arthur Davidson getting together to build what were (at…

  • Video: Cat riding pillion with a bit of style

    Video: Cat riding pillion with a bit of style

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    Here’s a video from Asia of a cat riding pillion on a motorcycle. That’s it. Nothing more to say other than it made us smile so we thought we’d show you it.

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