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Japanese Honda insider says 2020 for the road-going RVF1000 V4 Honda
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Our mates at top Japanese magazine YoungMachine have told us that their Honda sources have the much-awaited RVF1000R V4 appearing in dealers for 2020. According to the title’s inside line, the bike is currently undergoing a big push for first-stage prototype production and will make it’s debut in 2019. That first showing will happen…
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Yamaha YZF-R1M online applications NOW open
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The Yamaha YZF-R1M online application system is now live – so, if you’ve got just shy of £20,000 sat in the bank, this is your chance to put your name down for a new YZF-R1M for 2018. Inspired by the MotoGP-winning YZR-M1 machinery made famous by Valentino Rossi and Maverick Viñales, the high specification…
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Motorcycle Live: Fancy meeting MotoGP man Johann Zarco? He’s at the show, today.
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He’s been one of THE riders to watch in this year’s MotoGP championship and you can see Tech 3 Yamaha MotoGP man Johann Zarco in the flesh at Motorcycle Live today. Zarco is making his visit to the NEC show alongside a host of other racers including Isle of man TT legend, the flying Kiwi…
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Want to win a KTM 790 DUKE? You can at Motorcycle Live – check out what the Austrians are doing there
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KTM UK will be at Motorcycle Live in full force with the chance to see the 2018 collection for the first time, test ride highlights from the current range, have the chance to get up close to KTM Factory Racing machines, meet MotoGP rider Bradley Smith* and also have the chance to win prizes – including…
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Win! SHARK lid signed by Jorge Lorenzo, Johann Zarco, Scott Redding and Sam Lowes at Motorcycle Live
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Visitors to the SHARK Helmets stand at this year’s Motorcycle Live show have the chance to win a SHARK Spartan Carbon DKA helmet – with a black visor signed by MotoGP riders, Jorge Lorenzo, Johann Zarco, Scott Redding and Sam Lowes. To be in for a chance to win, visitors simply have to count the…
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Tony Cairoli blasts around Valencia on a KTM RC16
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After being proclaimed MX world champion for the ninth time and recently tying the knot with his wife Jill, Cairoli has been out in Valencia doing some laps aboard a MotoGP spec KTM RC16. Kitted out head to toe in leather, with the numbers ‘222’ on the front of the bike, Cairoli set off around the Spanish…
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Suzuki’s patent shows MotoGP style GSX-RR getting new road-friendly fairing lowers
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Suzuki has filed a patent for extensive bodywork changes to a motorcycle that’s the spitting image of the firm’s MotoGP machine. There’s nothing to say that Suzuki isn’t spending money, time and effort putting in patents on a race-only bike. Maybe that’s what the factory is doing. Maybe what it wants to do is make…
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Genuine Honda Grand Prix two-stroke 500 sells for £32,200 at the Stafford Show
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Now that’s what you call a motorcycle and it was bought at the Bonhams’ auction during the Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Stafford Show at the weekend for a snip over £30k. The 1990 machine came complete with a factory Honda motor and hand-built aluminium chassis. And that sales price isn’t what you’d call pricey (if…
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Video: Suzuki tests 2018 MotoGP chassis
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https://youtu.be/WYNXzJhycok Team Suzuki Racing has just published a new video with highlights from Team SUZUKI ECSTAR’s two-day test at Motorland Aragon in late September. Both Andrea Iannone and Alex Rins put in loads of laps during the extensive testing plan with new parts for the 2018 season, in particular a new chassis. So, effectively, this video…
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Nozane to replace Folger at Japanese Grand Prix
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Local hero Kohta Nozane will step in for the absent Jonas Folger (below) this weekend at the Motul Grand Prix of Japan. Folger will fly home today in order to undertake more medical checks and his seat will be filled by Nozane, who made his Grand Prix debut as a 16-year-old in the 2012 Japanese Moto2 race as a wildcard. He won…
