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Honda and Hitachi announce partnership company to build electric vehicles! Now, this electric stuff is seriously targeting mass markets.
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Honda and Hitachi announce partnership company to build electric vehicles! Now, this electric stuff is seriously targeting mass markets. Honda is teaming up with Hitachi to develop the next generation of electric motorcycles – and the agreement is being underwritten with a substantial £35 MILLION of what will be, effectively, start-up cash. Both business yesterday…
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SPY SHOTS: KTM’s next gen roadster is FINISHED and we’ve caught it out on SECRET road tests
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SPY SHOTS: KTM’s next gen roadster is FINISHED and we’ve caught it out on SECRET road tests. Whilst we were the first to show you this bike, months ago, and now we’re the first to bring you these great photos of the bike this time in a much more finished state than…
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Bridgestone announces return to world racing scene with WEC deal
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Bridgestone announces return to world racing scene with WEC deal. Bridgestone has announced that it will supply racing tyres to two teams in the FIM Endurance World Championship series (EWC). Both YART Yamaha Official EWC Team and the F.C.C. TSR Honda team will race on Bridgestone tyres for the next round of the FIM EWC,…
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Final WSB 2017 calendar released – Jerez now included, Donington still in May
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Final WSB 2017 calendar released – Jerez now included, Donington still in May. Here’s the final, confirmed, absolutely-positive-that-this-is-the-last-one calendar from the WSB bosses. And you can see that Jerez is in the schedule now, on October 20-22. Just one UK outing in 2017 with Donington Park on May 26-28.
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Tito Rabat out of hospital and now at home after fast crash in Sepang
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Tito Rabat out of hospital and now at home after fast crash in Sepang. Tito Rabat has been released from hospital following his massive crash at Sepang last week. The 2014 Moto2 champion has been operated on at the Hospital Universitari Dexeus in Barcelona after falling at Turn 11 in Malaysia and suffering five fractures…
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Yoshi’s new endurance Suzuki racer to get 30 year old colours and looks. Oh yes…
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Yoshi’s new endurance Suzuki racer to get 30 year old colours and looks. Oh yes… According to some Yoshi-based talk in Japan the new GSX-R1000 endurance bike currently in development is getting pretty close to being finished. Yep, it’s dripping with parts from the Japanese tuner and has some lovely stacked headlights etc. But here’s…
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Video: Kevin Schwantz launching the new GSX-R1000 from pitlane (turn the sound up)
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Video: Kevin Schwantz launching the new GSX-R1000 from pitlane (turn the sound up). https://www.facebook.com/kevinschwantzofficial/videos/10154541827282961/ Here’s something that’s made us happy this morning, it’s Kevin Schwantz launching a new GSX-R1000 from the pitlane at Phillip Island, Australia. It’s worth having the sound up for this one. Only a few seconds long, but – just to say…
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There’s a CHiPs movie coming out! And here’s the trailer! Yeah! CHiPs!
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There’s a CHiPs movie coming out! And here’s the trailer! Yeah! CHiPs! As you, a regular one of the MoreBikes five million, know – we love the 1970s/1980s tv series CHiPs. The original series ran on British screens from 1977 to 1983 and focused on the Kawasaki-mounted adventures of two Californian motorcycle policeman; Jon Baker…
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Piaggio (the scooter people) have made this – the world’s first, intelligent luggage. No, really.
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Piaggio (the scooter people) have made this – the world’s first, intelligent luggage. No, really. https://youtu.be/_6cczpH-uQA It’s only a concept, it’s being put forward by people who usually make scooters and own Aprilia and it’s got a degree of artificial intelligence. This is the KILO and GITA project from Piaggio. Gita is the blue ball…
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First look: Arai’s 2017 Isle of Man TT helmet design
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First look: Arai’s 2017 Isle of Man TT helmet design. Here’s the 2017 TT-themed Arai Isle of Man Special Edition helmet. The muted colours on the RX-7V follow a similar look to previous editions of the helmet but feature The Island’s Triskelion (the three-legged Celtic symbol) much larger on each side. The design is another…
