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Pictures: HPnineT custom BMW from High Octane
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How cool is this? A custom café racer based on the BMW RnineT. The bike has been designed and built by the Dutch custom-bike builders High Octane Speed Shop. We reckon this looks like how a BMW built Thruxton might have turned out – and we like it. This is a one-off bike, unlike the…
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Video: iC-R smart helmet concept with HUD displays, cameras and more
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Video: iC-R smart helmet concept with HUD displays, cameras and more The iC-R (Intelligent Cranium) helmet concept takes the idea of a smart helmet to another level. It features not just one, but two rear-view cameras (with a 210 degree field of view), two Heads-Up displays (HUD) and a push-button tinted visor. It warns the…
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Video: Porsche 918 Spyder VS Yamaha YZF-R1
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Video: Porsche 918 Spyder VS Yamaha YZF-R1 Here’s a cool little video for a bit of Friday fun: Porsche 918 Spyder racing Yamaha YZF-R1 on track. It’s a short film showing the superbike and supercar going head to head, complete with a bit of high-speed wheelie action (from the R1 that is, not the Porche).…
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Pictures: New CFMoto bikes revealed in Milan
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Not everyone here in the UK has heard of CFMoto, but they are one of the largest Asian manufacturers of motorcycles, scooters, quads, boats and all sorts of engines. This week CFMoto revealed interesting new bikes from street fighters to tourers at the EICMA show. The touring oriented 650TK and 650TK-G share a twin-cylinder 650cc…
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VIDEO: Nicky Hayden testing WSB Fireblade at Aragon
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Here’s an awesome video of Nicky Hayden and Michael van der Mark out testing the WSB Hondas. The film of the testing program has just been made live by Honda and shows the riders getting to grips with the Fireblades at Aragon circuit in Spain. The video features interviews with the riders and the…
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SCOOP: The 2016 hybrid BMW R1200GS with INDEPENDENT front wheel drive and regen braking power system – launched at Milan
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Check out this amazing hybrid BMW GS launched at the Milan motorcycle show – it’s like nothing you’ve ever seen before. Like with most ‘hybrid’ tagged bikes, the GS gets a conventional petrol-powered motor (the stock unit) but this bike differs with the addition of a 7.6-kilowatt electrical motor which drives the FRONT wheel…
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Benelli joins the 300cc faired market with the Tornado 302, launched at Milan
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It’s not the most dynamic of motorcycles launched at this year’s EICMA event in Milan, but this little 300cc bike from Benelli is arguably the most important from the company. That’s because this is the newest, faired bike that’s aiming squarely for the blossoming 300cc market in the emerging markets of Asia and South…
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Benelli goes down the Monkey Bike route at the Milan show
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Because Benelli is owned by a chinese firm, it was a pretty safe bet to assume that we’d see something small and almost disposable like a monkey bike from the at this year’s EICMA event in Milan. And here it is. Called the Benelli Tornado Naked T, the bike is available in either 125…
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Energica Eva bike launched at the Milan motorcycle show
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This is the Energica Eva, a 95bhp PMAC motored electric streetfighter that’s being show at the Milan show. Essentially, this is the same bike as we first saw last year as a prototype, but this year’s version is different in that whilst 95bhp is nothing to be sniffed at – it is considerably lower than…
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Hi-res images of Bimota’s gorgeous supercharger system
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Oh boy… this is the glimpse of the future here, and it’s got a gorgeous lump of style with it, too. This is the Bimota supercharger that can be bolted onto the firms’ Impeto naked bike, launched a couple of days ago at the Milan motorcycle show. Bimota says that the unit can churn out…
