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Spy shots! Husky Vitpilen cafe racer snapped out in first tests on the road!
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Here are spy pictures of the Husqvarna Vitpilen cafe racer for the road as it’s put through its first set of road tests abroad. The bike is heavily drab with black bodywork and a temporary exhaust and silencer – the wheels are a far cry from the spoked versions (or the fatter-spoked mag arm wheels)…
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MotoGP: Suzuki’s new F1-style wings on the factory bikes and Aprilia gets Ducati-clone wings too!
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Two more teams have debuted racebikes in MotoGP with wings. The Spanish MotoGP round at Jerez happens this weekend and the Suzuki’s of Maverick Vinales and Aleix Espargaro have turned up with this (very F1 front wing stylee) winged fairing: We like it. Not as aggressive as the Ducati wings and they look like being…
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Meet the official HRC Grom monkey bike racer that you can now buy
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Honda’s official racing company, HRC, has developed and put on sale a raft of tricked-up parts for the firm’s mini-bike, the Grom. A Grom in HRC colours with a couple of performance parts bolted to it is old news, but the fact that HRC has put on sale the host of hot-ticket options shows…
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See Guy Martin’s Wall of Death bike in the flesh at Stafford this weekend!
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The Rob North framed 750cc BSA Triple machine on which Guy Martin set a new world speed record on a Wall of Death, live on Channel 4 over the Easter break, will be at the 36th Carole Nash International Classic MotorCycle Show this weekend. The road racing, mountain biking, lorry mechanic blasted around the specially-built 37…
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Video: Chihuahua leads bike cop a merry chase across San Francisco’s Bay Bridge
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Here’s a video report of a chihuahua leading the San Francisco police on a chase across a major bridge. This is filmed from a police car involved in the not exactly speedy run out in San Francisco. We’re unsure about giving the dog the name Ponch… we love the CHiPs TV show. It kind of…
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Rumour? BMW to launch muscle cruiser rival to the Ducati XDiavel?
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German magazine Motorrad believes that BMW is building an XDiavel crusher – a muscle cruiser pared back to basics to try and take on the likes of the popular Italian model. It’s just a rumour at the moment – and there’s no solid leads on much of this (other than the rumour itself) – and…
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Want to DJ at the 2016 Isle of Man TT races? Alongside Carl Cox? Yeah? Read this then…
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Aspiring DJs will once again have the opportunity to open for legendary DJ Carl Cox, one of the world’s most successful DJs, as the Honda TT Revolution returns to the Isle of Man for an unforgettable week of motorcycle racing and music. Last year’s event saw TT Revolution ambassador Carl Cox headline a sold-out…
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Ducati MotoGP Team Manager: Yamaha didn’t make Lorenzo ‘feel good’, Rossi is wrong about Ducati and crunch time for Dovi and Iannone will happen at Barcelona GP
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Yamaha did not make Jorge Lorenzo “feel good”, reckons Ducati MotoGP team manager Gigi Dall’Igna. In a report published by the excellent Autosport – translated from an original article in Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport, Dall’Igna is pretty scathing about Yamaha and how it treated the Majorcan. Suggested to Dall’Igna by Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello…
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HJC teams up with Marvel for official Iron Man, Punisher and Captain America helmets
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It had to happen at some point and here it is, HJC has teamed up with Marvel Comics to produce the first three officially licensed graphic helmets which will be available next month. We don’t know much about these lids in term of spec – and what we’ve seen so far is only USA-oriented –…
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Maverick Viñales: I want to be MotoGP champion in two or three years!
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With the interest ramping up ahead of this weekend’s Spanish GP round, the subject of much speculation about the future – Maverick Viñales – is upping his ante. With the Spaniard currently being courted by Yamaha to line up alongside Valentino Rossi for the next couple of years as a natural replacement for the now Ducati-bound…
