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Honda’s Kumamoto factory is back to business
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Honda’s Kumamoto factory is back to business. Since the devastating earthquakes that hit the area on April 14th, the Honda factory in Kumamoto, Japan has been in almost total shutdown (minor operations started on May 6), but now things are starting to be fired up again. Honda says that all of the debris has…
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First look: Indian’s 109bhp, 10,000rpm liquid-cooled motor
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First look: Indian’s 109bhp, 10,000rpm liquid-cooled motor. Here’s the first look at the new motor which Indian will use in it’s upcoming, purpose-built, road legal flat tracker, MoreBikes told you about this bike first a full year ago and Indian finally confirmed its existence yesterday with some serious details about the new model. The bike…
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Indian confirms MoreBikes story from a year ago with flat-track announcement
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Indian has just confirmed the scoop that we told you about first – a year ago! The American firm has just said that it is going to go AMA flat track racing with it’s first full factory racing effort since the 1950s. And it’s going to do it with a new liquid-cooled motor. And here’s…
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TT 2016: Video of super slow-mo that’ll blow your mind
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TT 2016: Video of super slow-mo that’ll blow your mind. We’ve been sent this clip from the IOMTTPICS.COM website and it’s pretty cool. The snapper has set up his own kerb cam on the Isle of Man Mountain Course. The footage is from this year’s event and looks pretty much the same as what you’ll…
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2017 KTM 390 Duke snapped INSIDE the factory. First picture of next year’s bike!
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Here’s a first picture of the 2017 KTM 390 Duke – and the snap has come from an inside leak at the Bajaj factory near Pune in India. What we can see from the pic is that the bike is getting a split headlight face for next year, nicely aggressive and just what the segment…
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You’ll be able to BUY an electric Harley-Davidson within the next FIVE years!
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Yep, it’s true – and that’s the latest news from the American bike builder, direct from the horse’s mouth. H-D’s Senior Vice President of Global Demand, Sean Cummings gave away the electric plan whilst talking to the Milwaukee Business Journal last week. While the news isn’t a complete surprise given that we’ve seen the prototype/concept…
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TT 2016: Hutchy tells crowd: “Bet on me for the Senior!”
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FOURTEEN times TT winner Ian Hutchinson has shot a massive warning across the bows of his Senior TT rivals ahead of tomorrow’s premier race. Speaking in a private audience with show on The Island tonight, the Bingley Bullet told an expectant crowd: “You should bet on me for tomorrow!” The rider, who became the fourth…
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Video: Foggy rides the TT 2016 on a KTM Super Duke R!
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Work Superbike legend and TT winner Carl Fogarty has been doing some TT riding on the side. On a pretty quiet Island circuit last week Foggy went for a blast on a KTM Super Duke R. We love this video of Foggy doing what he does best – going big on a big bike around…
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TT 2016: Hutchy breaks into 133mph lap bracket on the SUPERSTOCK bike!
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The 2016 TT Superstock race is happening right now and Ian Hutchinson has done the amazing already, he’s just clocked an average speed of 133.098mph! In time terms, Hutchinson managed to lap The Mountain Course in very nearly under 17 minutes, his astonishing lap time was 17m 00.510s. That time comes a few days after…
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Luis Salom’s Moto2 team releases crash data to explain fatal fall
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Luis Salom’s SAG Team has released a statement about the crash which claimed the youngster on Friday, June 3. The team says that Salom, who died as a result of injuries sustained during a crash at turn 12 during the Free Practice 2 session in Catalunya, Spain, was into the turn later on the brakes…
