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  • Video: Bruce Anstey’s Padgett’s TT RC213V-S on the dyno! Turn it up loud!

    Video: Bruce Anstey’s Padgett’s TT RC213V-S on the dyno! Turn it up loud!

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    Check this video out of the awesome factory MotoGP-for-the-road RC213V-S on the dyno. What makes this really special is that this is the bike that Bruce Anstey (below) will race at this year’s Isle of Man TT races, which is about to kick off with Practice Week on The Island. The bike is being run…

  • Video: First look at Valentino Rossi: The Game

    Video: First look at Valentino Rossi: The Game

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    Video: First look at Valentino Rossi: The Game. Here’s the first look at the new MotoGP game: Valentino Rossi: The Game. In it you get to play as Valentino in every phase of his career so far AND you get to race in historic races of Rossi’s career that happened (Lorenzo battles and Gibernau clashes…

  • 2017 Honda CBR250RR to get three riding modes and ride-by-wire

    2017 Honda CBR250RR to get three riding modes and ride-by-wire

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    There’s a lot of rumours appearing today from Indonesia saying that the next generation 250 four-stroke from Honda, the mini-Fireblade CBR250RR (also known by the cooler-sounding K64 codename), is going to have three riding modes. The quarter-litre sportbike has already been shown at various 2015 shows as a ‘concept’ lightweight sports bike from Honda, but…

  • Preview: 2016 Isle of Man TT – Island life blasts into action

    Preview: 2016 Isle of Man TT – Island life blasts into action

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    Preview: 2016 Isle of Man TT – Island life blasts into action. By Philip Wain With a long break now in the BSB calendar, it’s time to go road racing again – and it’s the big one, the Isle of Man TT Races. The recent North West 200 may have given an indication of form…

  • Bruce Anstey to race Honda RC213V-S at next month’s TT Races!

    Bruce Anstey to race Honda RC213V-S at next month’s TT Races!

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    Bruce Anstey is set to race a Honda RC213V-S at the 2016 Isle of Man TT Races. The Valvoline Racing by Padgett’s Motorcycles team has confirmed that the New Zealand rider will have a race prepared version of the exotic V4 machine for the RST Superbike and PokerStars Senior TT races. Anstey has yet to…

  • Video: Getting her arse down… dumb ass!

    Video: Getting her arse down… dumb ass!

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    OK, there’s no point in being clever with this – so we’re just going to say WATCH THIS VID. It’s a girl on the back of a bike in Indonesia or somewhere similar. We’ve got no info on the clip. Anyway, she’s a pillion in a skirt and top (as you’d expect) and the bike’s…

  • VIDEO: What makes a great motorcycle race school?

    VIDEO: What makes a great motorcycle race school?

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    Track days and on-track training are a great way to improve your riding. Many of us go back to the same tracks and race schools again and again. Graham has been going to the Ron Haslam Race School track training days for 12 years. We talked to him to find out what it was that…

  • 2017 Yamaha R6 image surfaces in Japan

    2017 Yamaha R6 image surfaces in Japan

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    2017 Yamaha R6 image surfaces in Japan. This is what the Japanese journalists closest to the insider source at Yamaha Japan say the next generation of R6 is going to look like. Now, there’s quite a few rumblings today saying that although this image of the future-R6, which has appeared in a few outlets in…

  • Video: Mind and Motor with Maverick Vinales

    Video: Mind and Motor with Maverick Vinales

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    Check out this really good video stepping into the life of MotoGP-rumour-mill-of-the-year Maverick Vinales. The film has been put together by Alpinestars and tells more of the story about Vinales on and off the track. We really like this. Well made, decent music and editorially interesting. Especially the bit where he talks about possibly him…

  • Details emerge for Guy Martin’s next set of TV challenges – boats and blimps

    Details emerge for Guy Martin’s next set of TV challenges – boats and blimps

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    We told you last week about one of the main challenges facing Guy Martin in the next SPEED with series on Channel 4 which will be aired later this year – and now there’s more information about what we can expect to see from the Lincolnshire-based sideburned chap. In what could prove to be his…

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